[blml] A story with a conclusion [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Konrad Ciborowski]

> Konrad Ciborowski:
> 
> [big snip]
> 
> >My estimation is that in a typical tournament
> >about 80% of MI cases are caught while
> >about 80% cases of UI use go undetected.
> >
> >That's why players should do everything they
> >can to limit UI. It is much more detrimental
> >to the game.
> 
> Richard Hills:
> 
> I do not follow Konrad's reasoning.  If my
> partnership adopted the De Wael School, then
> we would give more MI to the opponents, but
> less UI to ourselves.
> 
> However, since my partnership abides by Law
> 73C, 

Mine, too. So if I play against you
you won't mind if I tell my partner
that I have a 14 count and 4=5=1=3?
Or if I tell him to play a spade at trick five?
Because since my partnership abides by
L73C...

Sorry, Richard, but we can never know that.
M.Rosenberg once wrote a very important
essay about the UI - that even if you
abide by L73C and carefully avoid taking
any advantage etc. and you think you are
absolutely sure that you would make this
or that bid or play anyway you still can never
be sure that it wasn't the UI the crystalized
that decision in you. So it is most important
to avoid creating UI in the first place.

BTW it was proved empirically that even partnerships
who could swear to God that they abide by L73C
do use UI. Screens proved that beyond any doubt.
We are human - we do use this confirmation from
partner's alert that ensures us that we are on
the right track. 


> we never use pard's UI, 

You do, Richard. Everybody does. Subconciously maybe
but you do. When I was to play with screens for 
the first time I was absolutely certain that for my
partnership it will be a big advantage because
we never, ever use UI so for us it won't matter
(while it might matter for other pairs).
After a few first sessions I was forced to admit
(and man, did I hate it) that I must have been using
the UI before because we had some shaky bidding
sequences and misunderstandings we normally didn't have.
It was probably the most painful discovery 
I have ever made for myself in bridge -
because I considered my partnership the cleanest
and the most ethical in the universe. Finding out
that despite all effors I still must have been
using UI was terrible for me.

Since then I believe that it is not possible for a human
to completely avoid taking advantage of UI because
our perception and our subconciousness is what it is - 
so avoiding creating UI is more important than anything
else..

And you should go out of your way to do it.

One way to do it is to avoid breaking L20F5a (in the
new laws) at all cost. May not in any manner it says.
ANY.





-- 
Konrad Ciborowski
Kraków, Poland


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