gordontd

Why must the term be seen in the light of a practice that doesn't occur in this game?

From where do you get this information, that you assert with such authority?

I don't believe I commented on Law 12C1f. However, since you seem very keen on it, I'll comment now that I don't think that Law 12C1f means that you can just issue split scores whenever you feel like it without regard to the rest of Law 12.

I'm sure this is right, but it's not entirely practical. I regularly direct games with a player whose eyesight is non-existent for the purposes of seeing dummy or the cards played by other players. He manages to keep up, but only just, as having the dummy described to him and all the played cards called slows things down a bit. If he wasn't allowed to have dummy described in shorthand it would slow things down further. His regular partners would say something like "King one, two small, Ace Jack to seven, two small", and he would check by saying "that's a 2272 five-count with Ace Jack of diamonds?"

Well 12C1e does say: (my emphasis)though I can't imagine why anyone would think it appropriate to apply it as they did.

In the EBU if a ruling comes to Appeal the director is asked on the form to specify under which law they made their ruling. It's also standard practice to specify it during the consultation process before giving a ruling.

There's a more detailed (and in my opinion better) variation on this in Better Bidding with Bergen.

Your partner opened 1D with a 5-count? No surprise that 2D might well have made for the opposition, with you as a passed hand.

Can you be a bit more explicit about what the issues are as you see them?

I looked at his profile on youtube - http://www.youtube.com/user/djhbrown It shows his country as France.

He might have been from the Channel Islands, where many names (people, streets, places) are French words that are anglicised in pronunciation. And then again, how do you pronounce Notre Dame University?

Of course he's not French, but apparently that's where he lives. However he doesn't sound British - I think he's antipodean.

Britain and America are not the only places where English is spoken as the first language.

I started, on your recommendation, but then remembered I needed to wash my hair.

He doesn't sound like a Briton, and his country is given as France.

I looked but it's so dull I couldn't finish.

Nor did N/S suggest that it was deliberate - we just don't know on the information we were given. There is a perfectly plausible misapprehension North could have been under - that 3NT shows a hand that wants to play in 3NT.

You quote a definition and then ignore one of the words - "deliberately" - contained in it. But more relevant than your quotation (though not much different) is the definition given in the Laws:

A psyche is a deliberate deviation. We don't know enough to know if it was.

:D

Does anyone have a link to the discussion on the old forum? I've tried to look, but the search facility there doesn't seem to work.

Trick 7 We?

I do: when I look at Law 67: DEFECTIVE TRICK, I see: That looks like a specification to me.

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