[blml] 40B3

[Stefanie Rohan]

> [nige1]
> Unless explicitly forbidden by local legislation, 40B3 seems to permit
> you to agree different sets of conventions, that depend on any of the
> following
>   - The question that you or opponents ask.
>   - The answer that you or opponents give.

AG:

Well, in the latter subcase "according to the response they give", it
must be allowed, because this is equivalent (if they didn't give MI) to
"according to their system", which, of course, is allowed.

SR:

Not too sure about this. If the Law meant "according to their system" it 
would have said so, no? Also, if your system dictates one action over 2D 
that is a transfer to spades and another action over 2D that is a weak 
takeout, then knowing what the bid means and acting accordingly is not 
"varying your agreements". The agreements were in place an unvarying; the 
fact that you asked a question is incidental and "counts" as nothing more 
than the way you discovered what their bid meant.

In any case, even if we accept that "according to the response they give" is 
an innocuous as he has stated, the other three elements are much more 
problematic and it seems highly improper to allow agreements based on those. 
So improper that you would think that there is some other intended 
interpretation of the Law. But what?

Stefanie Rohan
London, England