[blml] ACBL LC Detroit minutes [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[John (MadDog) Probst]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alain Gottcheiner" <agot at ulb.ac.be>
To: "Bridge Laws Mailing List" <blml at amsterdamned.org>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] ACBL LC Detroit minutes [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

Alain, perhaps you and I should wear badges that say "We play bridge". It 
seems a lot of others should sport "We don't play bridge".

When I get stuffed by lols or devious gits who're trying it on, I just make 
a mental note to get even. It won't take long. Most successfully in this 
category I'm minded of Wonky who somewhat foolishly psyched against me when 
I was playing with my 14 year old daughter. I picked the psyche off and 
pressed "Collect". Why do I need a TD? Over the next few weeks I gave him an 
object lesson in misdirection. A month, 6 different classes of psyche. 6 
different partners, 6 tops and 6 TD calls by Wonky later with no adjustments 
I said I was prepared to call it off and there the matter rested. Wonky 
hasn't bothered to psyche against me since and I'm content to leave him 
alone. That's "How do we play bridge." What's it got to do with the TD? 
John

Hans van Staveren a écrit :
> [JP]
>
> Look guys; why don't you read law 40? "Why did you bid 2H?"
>
> 1) "I psyched"
> 2) "I pulled the wrong bid"
> 3)" I was playing Muiderberg this morning with someone else"
> 4) "The opponents are arseholes and I decided to wind them up"
> 5) "We needed a swing/top"
>
>

6. Well, I know this isn't in my system, but I had taken some time, and
didn't want partner to be barred.
7. I put two cliamonds within my spades.
8. I thought RHO hand opened 1NT, don't ask me why. Perhaps because of
that fuss about the 1NT bid at the next table.
9. I should have four spades ? Those little square things ? I got them.
10. I can't get rid of that headache.
>
> But human beings have different memories for good things and bad things.
> Especially appeal committee members get a very strange view of life, since
> they only see the ones that succeed.

The well-known umbrella effect : you don't remember of the occurrences
when you forgot your umbrella and it *didn't* rain.

> So I understand if players want to write memos about how these things can 
> be
> handled better. I am just interested in seeing these memos, because I 
> cannot
> think of a better way of handling it than the way current in the laws.
>
To my knowledge, goals or trials scored on a lucky deflection aren't
voided. Neither should be lucky misbids. Even if, as you'll see in my
last contribution "how probable ...", it can be extremely frustrating on
the NOS.

Just fancy : at snooker, lucky strikes are *applauded*.

Best regards

   Alain


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