[blml] Law 27 - relay

[Eric Landau]

On May 1, 2008, at 1:21 PM, Stefanie Rohan wrote:

> Stefanie Rohan wrote:
>>
>>> Anyway, once misdecriptive and anti-systemic RCs are disallowed,  
>>> these
>>> problems will be minimised.
>
> Eric Landau:
>
>> What Stefanie calls "misdecriptive and anti-systemic RCs" as penalty-
>> free replacements for IBs have been routinely allowed at least since
>> I began directing (with TF 1963 LB).  I can't imagine that we're
>> about to -- or would want to -- disallow them now.
>
> This is not true at all. In the past, penalty-free corrections were  
> only
> permitted when a natural bid was corrected to the same denomination  
> at the
> next level, so long as the bid at the next level was also natural  
> in the
> partnership's methods. This may have sometimes been "misdescriptive  
> and
> anti-systemic", but not by very much.

The thread example we have been discussing is 1H-P-1H, corrected to  
2H (both "incontrovertibly not artificial").  There is nothing new  
here; the relevant portion of the law is the same whether we use TFLB  
from 1963, 1975, 1987, 1997 or 2008.  And Stefanie apparently found  
this example "'misdescriptive and anti-systemic'" by enough to cause  
her to assert that "we can all agree that it is undesirable" (a  
rather strong assertion, since disproven).


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