[blml] Oh my Gourd [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Alain Gottcheiner]

richard.hills at immi.gov.au a écrit :
>
> "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?
>
> <snip>
>
> 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
>
>   

I wans't much concerned about hesitations, but about actions that create 
UI the way they are done, and could easily have been avoided. For 
example, oriented questions. Or explanations given that weren't asked.
I strongly feel such infractions to L73B1 (old) should indeed generate 
an automatic procedural penalty even when it's judged that the UI wasn't 
at all used by partner.

IOW, I don't speak about UI that's a consequence of the game's 
difficulty, but about unnecessary UI.

One interesting case : my partner once realized that when he hesitated 
before making a 2-way bid (of which there are many in our system), it 
was more probable that he held the strong variant, because he would 
seldom hesitate before preempting ;-) while evaluating a strong hand 
takes a few seconds.
This hasn't anything to do with him being a slow thinker ; he isn't.
Which means he should "strive" to avoid this by taking a little time 
before ussing a weak variant too.

> 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.
>
>
>   
Once agin, I've another target, namely the resentment of players that 
think UI was transmitted AND benefitted the opponents, even if the TD 
judged otherwise.
What someone called here the 'wiz robbed effect".



Best regards


    Alain