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[David Burn]

[HdW]

I have answered that one too. I'm not going to look it up to paste and copy.

[EL]

It seems I owe Herman an apology, as I am unable to find his answer
anywhere. I would humbly abjure him to reconsider, and, as a personal boon,
to look it up to paste and  copy.

[DALB]

I think he (or it may have been someone else) said that since you have to do
something at your turn, and since your call might indicate that a mistaken
explanation has been given by someone or other, L20F5 may be superseded by
the requirements of L17C.

For example, South opens 1S and North bids 2NT, explained by South as a
game-forcing raise. The actual methods are that 2NT shows a limit raise or
better, and North actually has a limit raise. South bids 3S, which a DWS
North will explain as forcing and then pass it. A MS North will explain it
as a sign-off facing a limit raise and then pass it, but in either case
North's pass will indicate that South's explanation was an error, and thus
be in breach of L20F5.

Of course, the DWS creates yet another avoidable difficulty: all East knows
against a DWS player is that North has passed a forcing bid. East may decide
on this basis to re-enter an auction in which he does not belong, for fear
that North has psyched his 2NT response on an awful hand. No doubt any
damage East-West suffer can be remedied by the director - but why should the
director (particularly if he is a playing director at a club) have this
extra burden imposed upon him?

David Burn
London, England