[blml] 40B3?

[Herman De Wael]

richard willey wrote:
> 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?
> 

Well, if they call before the end of the hand, the TD will only have 
to assume I'm speaking the truth when saying that I would call. But 
this is not some DWS scenario. This will happen without any second 
call to be explained as well. In fact, this happens all the time, all 
over the world.

And of course I would call the TD - do you think they would not notice 
the discrepancy anyway - at any time?

-- 
Herman DE WAEL
Antwerpen Belgium
http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/index.html