[blml] Expectation [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Stefan Filonardi]

Hello,

David Burn schrieb:
> [NG]
> 
> Their obsession with (so-called) "Equity" is the last straw.
> 
> [DALB]
> 
> Well, actually it was the first straw. Ever since Kaplan decided that you
> shouldn't have to play in a cue bid just because you passed it instead of
> returning to the trump suit, the rules have become increasingly ridiculous.
> 
> It's not that I mind so much for myself. After all, I play most of my bridge
> in places where there are Directors of the highest quality and players who,
> even if they don't know the rules, are prepared to accept the Director's
> interpretation with good grace.
> 
> But I represent about 0.0001% of the bridge-playing population. As should be
> abundantly clear from the discussion of Law 27 in this community, nobody
> (including the people who made the Law) has any idea what it means. Pity the
> poor playing Director at the Much-Festering-under-Lyme Bridge Club who has
> to jump from his seat at table seven to give a ruling when someone at table
> eleven has bid 1H after 1H (1S), or after 1H (Pass). A few days ago I was
> playing at the EBU's Easter Festival, and someone at the next table to mine
> made a (conventional) insufficient bid. The Director who had to deal with
> the incident did so impeccably. It took ten minutes, and afterwards I was
> approached by a member of the non-offending side who said "Surely what
> happened can't be right?"
> 
> Of course, the WBF DSC does not have to pity that Director, nor even
> consider her, for the WBF DSC imagines that bridge events the world over are
> played with screens through which no insufficient bid may pass, under the
> auspices of Bill Schoder, Max Bavin, Ton Kooijman, Grattan Endicott and the
> shade of Edgar Kaplan himself. Would that they were, but they are not.

I apologize for having only a rant.

Well, they do not imagine. They are sure of it as they state 
in the preface of the new laws: "Over the years there has 
been a marked increase in the expertise and experience of 
Directors, which has been recognized in the new Code by the 
increased responsibilities given to them."

When I read that, and could stop laughing, I knew that a 
further step had been taken to tear apart the world of top 
bridge and the game at the club. I wish that this break up 
would be acknowledged and I could play under "David's Bridge 
Rules for clubs"

ciao stefan
germany