[blml] De Wael comments on 27 procedure.

[gesta at tiscali.co.uk]

Grattan Endicott<gesta at tiscali.co.uk
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guthrie" <Guthrie at NTLworld.com>
To: "Bridge Laws Mailing List" <blml at amsterdamned.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] De Wael comments on 27 procedure.


> Law 27 could be simplified. For example ...
> 
> If a player makes an insufficient (or out-of-turn or illegal) call then 
> the call is cancelled and the information is unauthorised to his 
> partner, who is silenced for the rest of the auction. The offender, at 
> each of his legitimate turns to call, may make any legal call. The 
> director ratifies the actual result achieved unless he judges that the 
> offender could have silenced his partner deliberately.
> 
> Notice that an attempt to "condone" the illegal call is likely to be 
> another infraction. Exceptionally, for example, against a handicapped 
> offender, the non-offenders may ask the director to waive their rights.
> 
> A few advantages ...
>  - No options for anybody.
>  - Simple UI restrictions.
>  - the actual result will usually be upheld.
>  - Some directors and players may be able to understand this rule.
> 
+=+ Your views, Nigel, on the way the laws should go are 
well known. However, the remit the DSC set itself was to 
increase the number of occasions when the board could be 
played and a result obtained. It was agreed that less priority 
be given to the convenience of the Director.
      So I see more advantage now in dealing with what we 
have, with procedures under the 2007 laws, as against a 
discussion of  what might be the law perhaps in ten years' 
time. 
                                            ~ Grattan ~   +=+