[blml] Law 27

[Sven Pran]

Do all of you completely overlook the words "in the Director's opinion"?

My experience is that Directors generally develop a fair ability to judge
for instance the meaning of insufficient bids.

Sven

> On Behalf Of David Burn
> [NG]
> The meaning of an insufficient bid is at best nebulous, depending on what
> the insufficient bidder imagines the auction to have been. IMO it can have
> no meaning, as far as the law is concerned.
> 
> [DALB]
> 
> I am not sure I understand this. An insufficient bid of (say) 1S means
> "there are some auctions in which I would have bid 1S with my hand".
> Whether
> or not the partner of the bidder knows what those auctions are, the fact
> that they exist at all ensures that the 1S bid is not devoid of meaning -
> it
> conveys at least some information.
> 
> The new new Law 27 can be interpreted on this basis. If, say, South opens
> 1NT and North bids 1H, then he is allowed to bid 2D as a transfer in
> response to 1NT (because 2D has the same meaning as, or a more precise
> meaning than, "I have a hand in which I would have bid 1H in some
> auctions"). It would be better, it seems to me, not to ask him why he bid
> 1H
> (that is, not to have him volunteer the information that he was responding
> to 1C, or opening the bidding, because that will constrain his partner in
> terms of UI).
> 
> David Burn
> London, England
> 
> 
> 
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