[blml] Interaction between L27B1 and L10C1 [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[David Burn]

[DALB]

And you expect people to play bridge at their local clubs in these yes and
no" circumstances? Do you expect them to enjoy it? How do you expect anyone
to be able to direct it?

It grieves me to say it, but the answer above leads to only one conclusion:
Richard Hills has gone over to the Dark Side of the Force.

[RH]

Darth Vader asks:

A player makes an Opening Lead Out Of Turn.  The TD is called. She arrives
at the table and reads out Law 54's five options. Declarer responds with, "I
didn't understand all that.  Director, have a look at my hand and tell me
which option you would choose."

Is declarer entitled to an answer from TD Leia?
Or must Han Solo work out his hand solo?

[DALB]

The evidence for Richard's defection to the Dark Side grows by the minute.
Here is a Law (54) that is unnecessarily complicated and stupid, and Richard
adduces it *in support* of the notion that we should have another Law (27)
that is also unnecessarily complicated and stupid. The extent to which one
needs to be steeped in Doublethink in order to do this is... well, we will
charitably call it "bewildering" for the time being.

But let us not despair entirely - at least the 1997 Law 25B, which was
unnecessarily complicated and stupid, has been expunged from the latest
Code. Maybe someday we will start to remember what a game is, and why it has
rules at all.

David Burn
London, England