Re: Indexing, The Art of
Herman De Wael <[email protected]>
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I think Richard is missing one point here: Richard Hills wrote: > The 2007 Law 23 (Awareness of Potential Damage) was poorly located in > the 2007 Lawbook. It applied to both the auction and play, but it was > nestled amongst auction-only Laws. So in 2017 the Awareness of Potential > Damage has been renumbered Law 72C. > > To quote Eeyore, this move created a Useful Pot of empty space. > Cunningly the 2017 Drafting Committee filled the Law 23 casual vacancy > with the new concept of Comparable Call. This idea dramatically > simplifies a Director's task in ruling on insufficient bids (and also in > ruling on calls out-of-rotation). This does NOT simplify the director's task, who now has to make a decision as to whether or not a substitute call is comparable. In previous versions, he could simply say: "if you change 2H to 3H it's OK", almost without checking the meanings of both. So this change does NOT simplify his task, but it does give him more leeway to making sensible rulings. I like it, FWIW. Herman. > > Best wishes, > > Richard Hills > > On Sunday, March 5, 2017, Richard Hills <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > > The 2017 Drafting Committee created a number of improvements to Law > 75. Two of these that I particularly like are: > > 1. The 2017 Law 75 specifically states that in a case of > Misinformation the Director may unearth evidence that the offending > side has "no agreed meaning" about a misexplained call; if so the > Director can adjust the score if the non-offending side was damaged > by not receiving the correct "no agreed meaning" explanation. > > 2. The 2007 Law 20F4 stated that a player MUST summon the Director > IMMEDIATELY that player realises that their own earlier explanation > was erroneous. > > But what if a player is only 50% confident that their own second > thoughts are more correct than their own initial explanation? To > prevent giving unnecessary UI to partner, the 2017 Law 75 (and the > 2017 Law 20F4) now permits the player to defer summoning the > Director to correct their own possibly erroneous explanation until > the Correction Period. The player retains the option to summon the > Director earlier (plus if the player belatedly realises their > own misexplanation after the expiry of the Correction Period, then > they must summon the Director immediately then). > > Best wishes, > > Richard Hills > > On Saturday, March 4, 2017, Richard Hills <[email protected]> wrote: > > Tony Musgrove: > > Exactly, POTUS is a good joke. As was the Kaplan L25. > > [snip] > > Richard Hills: > > The 2007 Drafting Committee deleted Kaplan's ridiculous Law 25B, > replacing it with a more sensible clause. > > The 2017 Drafting Committee has further enhanced the clarity of > Law 25 (and Law 45C4(b)) by limiting the scope of > "unintentional". A call (or designation of dummy's card) based > on loss of concentration is now deemed intentional. > > Best wishes, > > Richard Hills > > On Friday, March 3, 2017, Tony Musgrove <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Exactly, POTUS is a good joke. As was the Kaplan____ > > L25. There should be more examples of how to____ > > apply some of the Laws, always promised but____ > > never delivered (except some from Max Bavin)____ > > __ __ > > Cheers,____ > > __ __ > > Tony (Sydney)____ > > __ __ > > *From:*[email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *a.witzen > *Sent:* Friday, 3 March 2017 3:17 PM > *To:* Bridge Laws Mailing List > *Subject:* Re: [BLML] Indexing, The Art of____ > > __ __ > > On the contrary, there should be more jokes in this forum, > such as beerfines in the lawbook for calls without merit.____ > > Regards,____ > > Anton____ > > __ __ > > __ __ > > __ __ > > Verzonden vanaf Samsung-tablet.____ > > A.witzen, boniplein 86 amsterdam____ > > > > -------- Oorspronkelijk bericht -------- > Van: Michael Holmes <[email protected]> > Datum: 03-03-2017 04:34 (GMT+01:00) > Aan: Bridge Laws Mailing List <[email protected]> > Cc: Richard Neville <[email protected]>, Rebecca > Plush <[email protected]>, Rebecca Plush > <[email protected]> > Onderwerp: Re: [BLML] Indexing, The Art of ____ > > Richard,____ > > __ __ > > I don't find your joke funny! Further, I don't think this > is the forum for this! I love the game of bridge like the > rest of you! Let's keep it to bridge.____ > > __ __ > > Mike Holmes____ > > ____ > > Dr. Michael Holmes P.O. Box 56 Dumont, CO 80436 303 928-9187____ > > __ __ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *From:*Richard Hills <[email protected]> > *To:* Bridge Laws Mailing List <[email protected]> > *Cc:* Richard Neville <[email protected]>; Rebecca > Plush <[email protected]>; Rebecca Plush > <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, March 2, 2017 6:45 PM > *Subject:* [BLML] Indexing, The Art of____ > > __ __ > > In my penultimate draft of the Index to the 2017 Laws of > Duplicate Bridge I included this joke:____ > > __ __ > > POTUS____ > > See Trump____ > > __ __ > > In the ultimate draft I deleted the joke because it was > irrelevant to the fabulous Lawbook. Likewise the American > voters will delete the irrelevant joke in four years' time.____ > > __ __ > > Best wishes,____ > > __ __ > > Richard Hills____ > > > _______________________________________________ > Blml mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rtflb.org/mailman/listinfo/blml > <http://lists.rtflb.org/mailman/listinfo/blml> > __ > ______ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blml mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rtflb.org/mailman/listinfo/blml > > > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature> > Version: 2016.0.7998 / Virus Database: 4756/14059 - Release Date: 03/05/17 > _______________________________________________ Blml mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rtflb.org/mailman/listinfo/blml