Re: Can a legal non-alert be misinformation anyway?

The Dutch rule - since 2009 - is that bids above the 3-level are only 
alertable in the first round of bidding, counting from the opening bid.
Question: if Herman's opening bid had been misexplained would he 
still be allowed to bid 5D?

At 07:18 AM 2018-11-08, Herman De Wael wrote:


>Steve Willner wrote:
>[ ... ]
> > FWIW, if the alerting rules were "nothing above 3NT," I'd always ask
> > about a 4C or higher bid on the first round of the auction no matter
> > what hand I held.
>
>That seems to be a good advice, but it kind of defeats the purpose of
>the non-alert: not giving UI to partner. Of course the reason for the
>non-alert does not work for opening bids - and indeed the Dutch rule
>used to be to alert anyhow on opening bids. The Belgian regulation is
>simpler and therefore we can accept this small disadvantage.
>
>But anyway - you would always ask in second seat. But suppose your
>partner does not ask (maybe he has looked at the SC) and when it's your
>turn, the 4SP bid has come. Would you still ask? or assume 4Di was a
>transfer to spades? and if you do the latter, would you not feel
>misinformed - would you accept the statement by TD "yous should have
>asked". I'm not sure that I would.
>
>Herman.

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