[blml] A question of player ability

[Karel]

Well this is an extremely good point which numerous people I've
discussed this with have all pointed out.  IF the person had some
information about the board from some source, surely they would hide
this knowledge with a long winded auction arriving at optimal
contract.  I have no answer to this, except to say that many bridge
players lack logic /tact / finesse and like the spectacular.

K.


On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Alain Gottcheiner <agot at ulb.ac.be> wrote:
> Guthrie a écrit :
> > [
> >
> > Notwithstanding such mitigations, I feel that in some contexts, when the
> > expert can advance no logical reason for a successful bid or play that
> > is well against the odds, the probability may be overwhelming that an
> > infraction has occurred: thus, cases like (2), smack of some kind
> > illicit knowledge of the board (perhaps an overheard post-mortem).
> One thing upsets me : imagine for one moment that a player has overheard
> that 7S was cold and decided to use this information. Would one bid 7S
> directly over 1H, thereby provoking all sorts of suspicions, as we see ?
> I don't favor this explanation and would like to find some other,
> perhaps something like the Rabbit's punitive 4C bid : "how else would
> partner let me play in my 8-card suit ?"
>
> Best regards
>
>   Alaon
>
>
>
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