Re: bridge reason for hesitation?

On 5/6/2019 5:03 PM, Herman De Wael wrote:
> But the question remains - is an opponent entitled to know what you are
> thinking about?

EK addressed both issues years ago.  Maybe something has changed to make 
is opinions no longer relevant, but I don't know what.

On the above, EK's answer was no.  You can't pretend to have a problem 
when you don't, but if an opponent misjudges what your problem was, 
that's his own problem.  EK didn't address the "duration of pause" issue 
I mentioned in my previous message, but that's rarely an issue.

> Something else that occurs to me regularly comes to mind.
> When having to make both the final pass and the opening lead, I never
> put down the actual pass until I've figured out what to lead.
...
> Am I allowed to combined two pauses for thought into one, thereby not
> revealing to declarer what it was that I was thinking about?

TBW (probably EK but maybe not) thought that what they called 
"time-shifting" was illegal, perhaps with an allowance for a pause to 
plan at the first trick and maybe later if there's a surprise.

What I've tried to do is discipline myself to pause before all opening 
leads, even when I have the most obvious lead ever.  Also to pause 
briefly at every turn to call when, based on the auction and not the 
cards I actually hold, I might have a choice to make.  I'm not very good 
at this but would like to think I'm improving.
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