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TD1 consulting TD2: “Do you think that 4S 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?”
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From: Eric Landau
Sent: 17 March 2017 12:52
To: Bridge Laws Mailing List
Subject: Re: [BLML] Game of Knowns
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
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