Penalties for fogetting system

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If I entered a competition against world class players and repeatedly failed to remember my basic bidding system, I'd enquire about withdrawing.

 

If I couldn't conveniently leave, I would cheerfully accept any prescribed penalties.

Would you have been invited? Perhaps, if your cheque book is quite thick.

I think that the forum experience encourages people to move from hesitant opinions, to ripping into imaginary foes, to telling the world what to think.

 

A useful first step (IMO) is to consider what I personally would do in the situation posed in the OP.

 

It's OK, of course, to talk about laws in general, or Bobby Wolff.

 

If you are saying that only sponsors could possibly forget their system all the time, then I'd expect you are wrong in the opinion of the OP, or else the OP could have been more direct.

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Nah, Godel's theorem doesn't apply here since the words "consistent" and "complete" have much stronger meanings in mathematics than when it comes to bridge regulations.

True, and also because his results require certain assumptions about the complexity of the structure being modelled which do not apply here.

Do you mean to say that bridge players are incapable of first-order arithmetic? (Not that I would necessarily disagree if you did, for in my experience most theorems about bridge are ineffectively generated, but still...)