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- From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
- Subject: Re: HCP Diatribe
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.183734.29020@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
- References: <C12Io5.7xt@megatest.com> <C1439q.5Fw@irvine.com> <1993Jan20.061308.2296@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:37:34 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.061308.2296@netcom.com> rudy@netcom.com (Rudy) writes:
- >In article <C1439q.5Fw@irvine.com> adam@irvine.com (Adam Beneschan) writes:
- >>to bet that there are other ACBL rules that make this clear, so that
- >>the rule you're quoting can't be interpreted properly out of context.
-
- >You're kidding, right?
-
- Frayed knot. What he is describing is a system a lot like our current
- system of speed limits. The posted limit is one thing - the actual
- limit another. The result: confusion and arbitrary enforcement.
-
- >>Maybe so, if they can find another way to ban fert bids. Assuming
- >>that this is a worthy goal, the 8-HCP rule, together with an
- >>understanding that players are allowed to add points for hand
- >>evaluation, seems to me a reasonable way to accomplish the goal.
- >
- >Ferts are already banned as "any bid which is destructive in nature"
-
- Yup. Like pre-empts, weak two bids, and weak overcalls.
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- La plus belle fille du monde ne peut
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- - pynq@quads.uchicago.edu, who is still costing the net
- hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, every time he posts -
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