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[barmar]

Except that in this case the opener did not complete the transfer. Maybe it boils down to "what is a transfer break?" I was using the meaning "a bid of something other than the minimum available bid in the suit to which transferred".

Sometimes there are "impossible" calls in a pair's agreements. If a player makes such a call, pretty much the only possibility is that a mistake has been made.

 

Giving a name to this call doesn't really clarify anything. By definition, an impossible call has no agreed meaning.

[campboy]

Except that in this case the opener did not complete the transfer. Maybe it boils down to "what is a transfer break?" I was using the meaning "a bid of something other than the minimum available bid in the suit to which transferred".

No, I agree with your definition of breaking the transfer. But opener only failed complete the transfer in this instance because he didn't realise it was a transfer. If he had realised, he would have completed it, because that's their agreement.

[Vampyr]

Sometimes there are "impossible" calls in a pair's agreements. If a player makes such a call, pretty much the only possibility is that a mistake has been made.

 

Giving a name to this call doesn't really clarify anything. By definition, an impossible call has no agreed meaning.

 

 

No, I agree with your definition of breaking the transfer. But opener only failed complete the transfer in this instance because he didn't realise it was a transfer. If he had realised, he would have completed it, because that's their agreement.

 

When my partner makes an "impossible" call, I try to work out what his intended meaning is. For example, making a Bergen raise and then bidding game shows a hand that was worth game, but not in terms of HCP and also not suitable for a jump to game. The first time I did that, I "made it up" and never dreamt that partner would think that I had forgotten our agreements and thought that the Bergen raise was a strong jump shift or some such. And this would not have occurred to partner either.

 

I think that a player who is "not playing transfer breaks" may find himself with such a super-suitable hand that he feels he must make one up.

[blackshoe]

It seems like no one here, including the director, asked West for the meaning of East's 3♦ bid. HIs answer might prove useful.

 

Looking at West's hand, I'd want to insist on game somewhere, so for me, at least, passing 3♦ is not a LA. It seems to me the LAs are 3♥, 4♥, and 4♣, and that the UI (that partner doesn't know I have hearts suggests either heart bid over 4♣. So I suppose for purposes of score adjustment I have to figure out how the auction might have gone after 4♣ by West instead of 3♥.