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- From: paul@sco.COM (Paul Jackson)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
- Subject: Re: Ethics question
- Keywords: no agreement = procedural penalty
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.152320.10187@sco.COM>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 15:23:20 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.225451.24791@cbnewsc.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1992Dec14.225451.24791@cbnewsc.cb.att.com> rainbow@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (Rob Buchner) writes:
- >And if you provide an explanation which turns out to be inaccurate,
- >it is also an automatic procedural penalty unless you can prove
- >your explanation is indeed your partnership agreement, which is
- >hard to do unless you have something written down somewhere.
- >Even if you bid your hand out according to your understandings,
- >while the opponents may not get an adjustment, you get a penalty.
- >This information comes straight from a national director.
- >Consider yourselves forewarned. For a partnership, not having
- >an agreement is not sufficient to avoid any responsibility.
- >Partnerships are now held responsible for having agreements.
- >Not having an agreement will result in a procedural penalty.
-
- This is absurd and a clear example of idiotic overreaction. Even with
- experienced expert partnerships there are occasional misunderstandings, for
- any misunderstanding to yield an automatic procedural penalty is just stupid.
-
- I agree with the underlying premise that a practiced partnership knows
- enough about their style and agreements that it is rarely on completely
- unknown territory and therefore has an obligation to give their "best guess"
- as to what an auction means, but to say that this means a partnership who have
- ever played together before can't have a misunderstanding is crazy.
-
- If this becomes widespread, the net effect is that only practiced
- partnerships who spend the time to write down their entire system can
- effectively compete at tournaments. This is NOT good for bridge.
-