[blml] Oh my Gourd [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

Alain Gottcheiner:

>Anyway, it is a good idea to maintain the act of creating UI
>in a status of "semi-infraction",

Richard Hills:

"Semi-infraction"?  Any relation to Bobby Wolff's "Hesitation
Disruption", an unLawful idea that a hesitator involved in a TD
ruling should receive an automatic procedural penalty?

Alain Gottcheiner:

>that is, something which you should strive to avoid.

Richard Hills:

My style is to bid with celerity and panache.  But that is a
matter of strategy (not wishing to restrict pard's logical
alternatives) and ability (being quick thinking).

However, a slower thinker need not "strive to avoid" a careful
assessment of a key decision if that slower thinker is willing
to accept the consequent restriction of partner's logical
alternatives

Alain Gottcheiner:

>A second reason for insisting on its avoidance is that it will
>create doubt about whether it was used, whence many TD calls
>and much resentment, which is bad for the game.

Richard Hills:

"Use" or motive for a call is not a Law 16 criterion.  Rather
the question is restriction of logical alternatives.  The basis
for "much resentment" is players incorrectly believing their
ethics are questioned, when in actuality they have merely made
a technical error in assessing allowable logical alternatives.


Best wishes

Richard James Hills
Graduates and Developmental Training Section
Department of Immigration and Citizenship
Telephone: 02 6223 8458
Email: richard.hills at immi.gov.au

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