[blml] A strory with a conclusion

[Hirsch Davis]

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From: "Sven Pran" <svenpran at online.no>
To: "'Bridge Laws Mailing List'" <blml at amsterdamned.org>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] A strory with a conclusion


>
> I don't know about ACBL, but we had the same (or a similar) regulation in
> Norway, and it included a rule that when a pair prohibited (!) opponents
> from using alerts then that prohibition lasted from the moment it was made
> until the end of the round at that table. (And such prohibition could not 
> be
> withdrawn during the round.)
>

I used to direct in one club game where a pair asked all opponents not to 
alert. Almost every pair that came to their table had an accident of some 
kind.  The alerts become ingrained, and almost impossible not to give. The 
method did cut down on UI, but also disconcerted many opponents, who were 
not comfortable varying their procedures at one table only.  At the club 
level, asking opponents not to alert just didn't work.

Hirsch