Re: Game of Knowns
Eric Landau <[email protected]>
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On Mar 16, 2017, at 9:26 PM, Richard Hills <[email protected]> wrote: > The charm of Duplicate Bridge is that it is a game of imperfect information - a game of unknown knowns. You commence a deal's auction knowing little about pard's cards. But as the bidding and defence continues, the nature of pard's cards are progressively revealed. Or alternatively you could take a short cut by infracting the 2017 Law 16B1: > > Any extraneous information from partner that might suggest a call or play is unauthorized. This includes remarks, questions, replies to questions, unexpected alerts or failures to alert, unmistakable hesitation, unwonted speed, special emphasis, tone, gesture, movement or mannerism. > > (a) > A player may not choose a call or play that is demonstrably suggested over another by unauthorized information if the other call or play is a logical alternative. > > (b) > A logical alternative is an action that a significant proportion of the class of players in question, using the methods of the partnership, would seriously consider, and some might select. Introducing “logical alternative” here is unnecessary; why complicate the language with an unneeded definition? Why not, “A player may not choose… if the other call or play is an action that a significant proportion…”? Eric Landau Silver Spring MD New York NY _______________________________________________ Blml mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rtflb.org/mailman/listinfo/blml