[blml] Correction to procedure statement - Law 27B1

[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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"A full cup must be carried steadily."
                      [English proverb ]
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+=+ I am aware. Also that I am receiving messages twice or four
times from blml.My son has been researching the problem and he
thinks it is a doppelganger effect of a recent Microsoft Windows
Update entered automatically into my PC - either SP2 or SP3.
I have barred further automatic updates and we are experimenting
to remove the gremlin-loaded mischief ,maker.
       Thank you.
                                               ~ G ~   +=+
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Easterson" <JffEstrsn at aol.com>
To: "Bridge Laws Mailing List" <blml at amsterdamned.org>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] Correction to procedure statement - Law 27B1


> Hola Grattan!  I don't know if you are already aware of this or if it
> interests you.  Almost all of your blml postings arrive doubly.  That
> is, one is dated (the time) usually a minute or two after the other.
> That was true of the posting below as well.  May be a problem with your
> PC or you may be clicking "send" twice.  The same thing happens
> occasionally to others; there are occasional postings from others that
> arrive twice but yours have been doing so for at least the last month or
> two.
> In this case the times given were 11:47 and 11:48.  Otherwise, greetings
> and I (as well as all others I amsure) do appreciate what you do in
> serving as liaison and source of info.  Thanks, JE
>
> gesta at tiscali.co.uk schrieb:
>> Grattan Endicott<gesta at tiscali.co.uk
>> [following address discontinued:
>> grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk]
>> *************************
>> "A full cup must be carried steadily."
>>                       [English proverb ]
>> "*************************
>>
>> +=+ Apology.
>> Law 27B1(b)
>> In my 'procedure' statement the correct statement
>> is that the information from the replacement call
>> must be identical to or more precise than the
>> information from the IB. The information from
>> the former may thus be greater. It is the meaning
>> of the call that must be fully contained within the
>> meaning of the IB. It is so very easy to get the
>> terminology wrong. Extra definition conveys
>> more information.
>> Thankyou to the correspondent who nudged me.
>>                             ~ Grattan ~   +=+
>> Corrected version:
>> Director's suggested procedure:
>> 1. He should ask the offender to say nothing, explaining that
>> anything he says or indicates may create UI for his partner.
>> 2. He should tell the LHO that he may accept or reject the IB,
>> going on to tell him that if he rejects the IB the offender will
>> have options:
>>     If the offender makes the lowest legal bid in the same
>> denomination (and neither bid is artificial) the auction will
>> continue. If the offender makes a call that conveys no meaning
>> outside of the meaning of the IB the auction will continue. (A
>> more precise call conveys, of course, more information since
>> it defines the hand more closely. ) If he selects any other call
>> it will silence his partner for the remainder of the auction.
>> 3. He should answer any question the LHO raises but should
>> maintain the stance that he does not know what the offender
>> thought he was doing when he made the IB and should not
>> discuss options the offender may have if the IB is rejected.
>> The LHO may examine his opponent's system card or make
>> enquiries about opponent's system before choosing his option.
>> 4. If the IB is rejected the Director needs to ascertain what
>> the offender was thinking when he made the IB. The other
>> three players are not entitled to know this so he should be
>> asked away from the table.
>> 5. The Director should amplify the explanation of Law 27B
>> without disclosing the basis of the offence. The IB is not part
>> of the legal auction.
>> 6. The AI is twofold
>>     (i) the meaning of the replacement call (LHO may ask, or
>> RHO may at his turn);
>>     (ii) the knowledge, lawful under Law 16A1(d), that the
>> offender may have been responding to a call from partner,
>> overcalling a bid by opponent, or opening the bidding. The
>> offender's partner may use this information and in the
>> subsequent auction may explore, to the extent that his hand
>> justifies it, the possibilities of the hand. He is not entitled to
>> 'guess' and act upon his guess. (In some situations one
>> - ? more than one - of the said possible causes of the IB
>> may be eliminated by circumstances.)
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