desireepta

Well, thank you to all you TD's for the logical and thorough discussion. It was extremely helpful and enlightening. Somewhat like barristers on a case.

EW agreement is conventional Ghestem, but East , new to the system, bid 2NT, having forgotten the conventional bid, as strong balanced. 3 ♥ by West who is more versed in the agreed convention, was preference for ♥I think the 3♠bid could have been SEWoG but more an erroneous assumption that South most likely will have ♠

[hv=pc=n&s=sjt96h976432d874c&w=s5haj85d652ct8653&n=sak84htdaj93cj742&e=sq732hkqdkqtcakq9&d=w&v=e&b=16&a=p1c2np3h3sdppp]399|300[/hv] 2NT was alerted as diamonds and hearts result was -2 NS-300 North requested a ruling and subsequently an adjusted score was awarded Ave+ for NS and Ave- for EW The reason given that it was unethical for East to double after knowing that NS was misinformed and should have bid 3NT which makes,i.e -600 for NS