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- From: altus@leland.Stanford.EDU (Steve Altus)
- Subject: Re: What to do when the rules conflict?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.200014.5640@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <1993Jan21.140619.19502@midway.uchicago.edu> <1jml68INNdr7@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 20:00:14 GMT
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- In article <1jml68INNdr7@transfer.stratus.com> tnh@sw.stratus.com (Tim Hill) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan21.140619.19502@midway.uchicago.edu>, pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers) writes:
- >> 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
- >
- >They're not suppossed to alert it, whatever it means. Several years ago,
- >the ACBL tried to end confusion over which bids in suits first bid by the
- >opponents should be alerted by declaring that none of them should be. In
- >effect, "a cuebid carries its own alert."
- >
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- am i missing something here? doesn't the "don't alert cuebids" rule apply
- only to bidding a suit that an opponent has bid NATURALLY?
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- certainly the auction 1NT-p-2C-3C where 2C is Stayman sounds like clubs!
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- similarly 1C (artificial, saying NOTHING about clubs) - 2C should be clubs
- unless there's an alert; so the "a cuebid carries its own alert" shouldn't
- apply here.
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- --steve altus
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