[blml] Consult the people.

[gesta at tiscali.co.uk]

Grattan Endicott<gesta at tiscali.co.uk
[following address discontinued:
grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk]
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"True luck consists not in holding
the best cards at the table,
 Luckiest he who knows just when
to rise and go home."  [John Hay ]
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Landau" <ehaa at starpower.net>
To: "Bridge Laws Mailing List" <blml at amsterdamned.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] Consult the people.


> On May 20, 2008, at 12:04 PM, <gesta at tiscali.co.uk>
> <gesta at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I need to find an example case in which it transpires that the
>> additional (lawful) information actually proves beneficial to the
>> offending side to the extent that they are able to obtain a result
>> which (probably/possibly) could not have been obtained
>> without such assistance (as distinct from blind luck).    In other
>> words I am seeking an example adjustment under Law 27D,
>> and to what more fertile population than inhabits this place
>> could I address an invitation to produce one?
> ...................................................................................................
> Player holding 3-4-3-3 with opening values attempts to open 1H
> (promising 4+), and is informed that the auction has gone 1S-P-.  1H
> is not accepted, and he chooses to bid a non-systemic 2H, which shows
> a game force with 5+ hearts.  The auction (opponents silent) proceeds
> 1S-2H-3H-3S-4H-P.  IBer's normal call over 1S would be 2C (game force
> with 4+ clubs or exactly 3-4-3-3), in which case the (systemic)
> auction would most likely have been 1S-2C-2D-2S-4S, but IBer could
> not bid 2C here, as his partner would have been barred.  4H, in the
> 4-3 fit, turns out to be a superior contract to 4S in the 5-3 fit
> due, and duly makes an extra trick.  L27D would have us adjust the
> contract to the normal 4S, with the normal (one trick less than 4H)
> result.
>
+=+ Thank you, Eric; I will offer any examples that appear
for possible discussion in the European Bridge League Seminar.
This is for NBO officials who set up training courses for TDs in
their NBOs.      It is to take place at the end of the month.
In the EBL the Director might decide that the pair has a
mechanism available that could lead to the better contract
some of the time; the assigned adjusted score could perhaps
be weighted.
                             ~ Grattan ~   +=+