[blml] 40B3?

[richard willey]

On 1/16/08, Eric Landau <ehaa at starpower.net> wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Herman De Wael wrote:

> Herman would do nothng against the laws, but, as he points out, if he
> were to, he would surely not be caught at it.  Of course, that would
> be cheating.  The DWS depends on breaking the (OK, a) law by
> deliberately giving MI, then "making it right" by subsequently
> calling attention to one's own infraction at the appropriate time.
> If the latter aspect of the DWS protocol were to be somehow forgotten
> or omitted, we would be left with outright cheaters getting away with
> outright cheating.  When Herman acts according to the DWS, he would,
> of course, never cheat, but, as he himself says, "anyone else could
> get away with it, easily".  Indeed, in  several recent messages,
> including the above, he tells us just how "anyone else" might lie to
> the TD or AC in order to "get away with it, easily".  That sounds
> more like an argument against the DWS than for it.  Or is Herman
> trying to justify his actions as simply "leveling the playing field
> against the outright cheaters"?

I'd like to introduce an additional extension to Herman's favorite DWS
school example:

What if the opponent's buy the contract after recieving an explanation
of the 5D bid.  Herman's side is now defending the contract and not
declaring...

Herman certain can't inform the opponent's about the misunderstanding
until the hand has been played out.

During the play of the hand, Herman's opponents figure out the
something fishy happened.  They call the Director mid stream and
inform him that Herman doesn't have a hand consistent with their
assumed meaning of his 4NT bid...

I'm sure that Herman will claim that at the end of the hand he would
have informed the opponents what happened, however, how are we to know
what might have happened?

-- 
"First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing
weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing
because I no verbs."

Peter Ellis