Re: Jeeves the Butler

The shorthand word "psychic" appears in Law 40B2(a)(v). But the more useful expanded description "deviate from his side's announced understandings" appears in Law 40C1.

A true psyche is when "partner has no more reason than the opponents to be aware of the deviation". (Note that Law 40B2(a)(v) nevertheless renders some true psyches illegal.) But a concealed partnership understanding pseudo-psyche is created by repeated deviations, for example the oxymoron "mandatory psyche".

Best wishes,

Richard Hills

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> On 27 Jul 2017, at 4:33 PM, Gordon Rainsford <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I’m struggling to see the Bridge Laws point in this thread.
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> From: Richard Hills
> Sent: 27 July 2017 05:13
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> Subject: Re: [BLML] Jeeves the Butler
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> Jeeves neither "obviously" psyches 1H nor "obviously" passes. Rather Jeeves has already observed the traits of the opponents (Law 16A2).
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> Due to Bertie Wooster's misadventures in the earlier matches of the Swiss this round's opponents are the weakest pair in the field. Furthermore the opponents play a home-grown idiosyncratic bidding system.
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> Hence Jeeves chose to Pass rather than psyche. Shenanigans occurred in the opponents' uncontested auction, resulting in a hopeless 6NT, +300 to the good guys. If Jeeves had psyched 1H, then the opponents would have been forced to revert to natural bidding, resulting in a sensible 3NT, -600 to the good guys.
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> Best wishes,
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> Richard Hills
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> Sent from my iPad
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> > On 25 Jul 2017, at 6:46 PM, Herman De Wael <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > obviously, 1 heart!
> > altough I would consider passing.
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> > Richard Hills wrote:
> >> Swiss Butler Pairs
> >> Dlr: West
> >> Vul: North-South
> >>
> >> The bidding has gone: Pass - (Pass) - ?
> >>
> >> You, East, hold:
> >>
> >> T96
> >> QT6
> >> T973
> >> 876
> >>
> >> What call do you make?
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> >> Best wishes,
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> >> Richard Hills
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> >> Sent from my iPad
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