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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!sol.deakin.OZ.AU!doug
- From: doug@cm.deakin.OZ.AU (Douglas Newlands)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
- Subject: Re: ethics
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 02:36:46 GMT
- Organization: Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
- Lines: 39
- Message-ID: <1h8jbuINN5ql@sol.deakin.OZ.AU>
- References: <1992Dec9.131435.5280@penet.fi: <1992Dec14.222310.29611@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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- :West is an LM who should know better
-
- What a quaint idea! Being an LM or GM just tells you that someone has played
- bridge over a period of time; it guarantees nothing about their skills or
- their ethics.
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- :None vul; W deals
- :N E S W Tx
- :-- -- -- 3H AKQ9
- :p p KQxx
- : AKx
- :
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- :West overcalled on:
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- :876xxx
- :Axxx
- :xxx
- :
- :1) is a system that allows first-seat 3-level preempts like this systemically
- :too destructive for the ACBL?
- :
- :2) assuming that this sort of preempting style is tolerated, what recourse
- :do I have when not informed about it?
-
- Perhaps you should play penalty doubles and this sort of thing will not be
- perpetrated successfully against you.
- Is it not the case that you want to play double for take out and are asking
- for a rule to protect you when the opponents take advantage of the downside of
- your choice of methods?
- Terence Reese was accused (bad choice of word) in the 50's of preempting any
- time he saw a 7 card suit; Bergen Cohen appear to be similar except they need
- 6 cards ( even 5 sometimes). It's a good style that keeps your opponents
- anxious all the time. It's the main strength of weak NTs as well.
- If you can't beat them join them and stop looking for rules to put everyone
- into a bidding straight-jacket.
-
- doug.
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