Re: Equity, some questions

ROCAFORT Jean-Pierre <[email protected]>
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> De: "Sven Pran" <[email protected]>
> À: "Bridge Laws Mailing List" <[email protected]>
> Envoyé: Mercredi 3 Août 2016 15:53:05
> Objet: Re: [BLML] Equity, some questions

> Jeff Easterson
> > Thanks for the input; much more than I had expected.
> [Sven Pran]
> What must be remembered is that the laws seldom (if ever) address just one
> specific circumstance but must cater for most (all?) possible relevant
> situations.

> When two pairs play a board not scheduled for them in a particular round the
> possible circumstances include:
> Neither, one or both pair(s) is/are fully, partially or not at all at fault.
> (6 different possibilities)
> Neither, one or both pair(s) has/have already played that board earlier
> during the event according to schedule or contrary to schedule. (6 different
> possibilities)
> Neither, one or both pair(s) is/are not scheduled to play that board at all
> during the event (for instance because of a scheduled sit-out). (3 different
> possibilities)
> The two pairs manage or do not manage to play the board that was scheduled
> for them. (2 different possibilities)

> As these possibilities do not appear to me as being mutually exclusive this
> means that we have a total of 216 different possibilities to be catered for.
i would be surprised if it happened that a movement requested that a pair who had already played that board earlier according to schedule were not scheduled to play it at all during the event. 
jpr 

> I think we must accept that adapting specialized rectifications for each of
> these possibilities can only result in too complicated and useless laws. My
> experience is that the existing laws are quite satisfactory here.

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