Re: Wanted: Alternate wording for Law 16Bb1(a)

Eric Landau <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.games.bridge.laws
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 02/09/17 6:10 PM, Adam Wildavsky wrote:

Thanks, Eric. I agree completely. May I quote you on BridgeWinners?

Sure.

> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 8:29 AM, Eric Landau <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
>     "Logical" here modifies "alternative".  Whether or not the call
>     actually
>     chosen is "logical" doesn't matter; it is only the "alternatives"
>     to it
>     that are constrained.  It's there to limit the adjudicator's
>     choices of
>     presumed alternative actions.  If you have UI that partner would
>     prefer
>     you to pass his 3S bid than raise it to game, you also have UI that he
>     would prefer a pass to a 7NT bid, but if you gain by passing we adjust
>     your score to the result in 4S (a logical alternative to pass) rather
>     than in 7NT (not).  Note that "gain by passing" is objective; the
>     "logicalness" of the pass doesn't matter
>

-- 

Eric Landau
Silver Spring MD
New York NY

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