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- From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
- Subject: What to do when the rules conflict?
- Summary: A chicken-and-egg kind of problem...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.140619.19502@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 14:06:19 GMT
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- Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
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- Playing at the club last nite, we came to the table of a pair who was
- already plenty annoyed at us, because we had made a ruckus during the
- previous round, thereby disturbing their tranquility.
-
- On the first board of the round, I dealt and opened 1C (alerted
- as Precision). Next hand bid 2C (not alerted). Now, experience has
- shown that on this auction, 75% of the time RHO doesn't know what the 2C
- bid is. That is, either its Michaels and RHO thinks it is Natural, or
- vice versa. In any case, they never alert it or and they usually
- explain it wrong. But, in any case, partner passes, and I alert. The
- reason for the alert is that, over an overcall, this pass shows
- specifically 0-5 HCP, and I've been told that that agreement warrants an
- alert. However, in the instant case, I'm not real sure what it is going
- on, because I don't really know what the 2C bid is.
-
- Anyway, RHO now asks me to explain the alert and I respond by asking
- what the 2C bid means. She says that I cannot ask because it is not my
- turn to bid. I say that I can't tell what the double means w/o knowing
- what the 2C bid means (note: in this environment, 2C could be anything,
- but it is most likely intended as either natural or Michaels) At this
- point, she got nasty and said (essentially) that if I didn't have an
- answer on tap, that I should not have alerted. I said (essentially)
- "OKfine." She then called the director, and eventually I said something
- to the effect that if the 2C was natural, then the pass showed 0-5.
-
- But I am curious as to what the theoretical solution to the problem is.
- How can I explain my partner's bids w/o knowing what the opps bids mean?
-
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