Re: Indexing, The Art of

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On Monday, 6 Mar, 2017 At 1:29 PM, Richard Hills<[email protected]> 
wrote:
Jan Peach:
Where do you get 50% from, Richard?
Richard Hills:
Out of my own fertile (and entirely unofficial) imagination.
Jan Peach:
"Becomes aware of his own mistake" sounds like a 100% mistake and I 
don't readily see why opponents shouldn't be told immediately about 100% 
mistakes, as a "must do".
Richard Hills:
An immediate correction of a player's own misexplanation is still a 
permitted option under the new 2017 Laws 20F4 / 75.
Jan Peach:
Far better to get normal table results than leaving it to the director 
later.
Some additional waffle for when a player is merely wondering whether he 
has gotten it wrong is no doubt fine but I can't read that into the 
current wording.
I don't see creation of UI as the big problem. The problem with saying, 
eg, "I said it was weak spades but I might be wrong and it's hearts and 
clubs," is that the opponents can't know whether partner is calling over 
weak spades or hearts and clubs. I agree better to keep quiet if not 
100% sure of an error.
Richard Hills:
The issue is not to "get normal table results". Many years ago the 
American expert partnership of Eddie Kantar and Marshall Miles very 
scientifically reached a grand slam in clubs with a Trump suit of AKx 
opposite a void.
And the issue is not "to keep quiet", which may be a Misinformation 
infraction.
Rather the issue, in my highly unofficial opinion, is to have an 
uncontested auction correctly explained during the Clarification Period 
without having the earlier auction poisoned by unnecessarily large 
amounts of UI.
Best wishes,
Richard Hills
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Jan:
Protecting infractors is not on my wish list. As you allude to 
elsewhere, the WBFLC has already clarified that creating UI by carrying 
out one's obligations is not an infraction. I trust that electing to 
correct one's own mis-explanation asap during the auction will still be 
covered by that minute.
FWIW I think most will correct immediately. Judgement rulings don't 
always help infractors though sadly the tendency is to expect 
non-offenders to land on their feet in the dark. Keeping quiet until the 
end of the auctiin may be worth the gamble.
Increasing judgement rulings at club level may even help the game. 
Nothing like experience to improve.
I don't see that being a contested auction or uncontested makes any 
difference.
If I have understood correctly, choosing to keep quiet during the 
auction when certain that one has given wrong information will not be an 
infraction.

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