In article <3FF858DB.CE94187D@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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william henderson <wchen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>You're only required to describe your agreements, not your actual
hand,
> nor what you "hope" partner will do
>
> Thanks for your reply. That was my understandng , too but apparently
this is
> not the case at least on OKB. At the start of every tournament, they
flash on
> the "instructions", " "No arrangement" is insufficient explanation"..
Why so,
> if one must alert only the partner****p arrangement.?
That proviso is intended for the cases where you make a bid that really
isn't part of your system. In f2f bridge, where your partner explains
your bid, he really doesn't know what you intended, so it's proper for
him to say "no agreement", and the opponents have to figure it out just
as he does. On OKB, where you explain your own bids, and partner
doesn't see the explanations, you're expected to describe what your bid
means.
Note that the situation under discussion is not one of these cases.
Although he may have been hoping you would pass the double, it clearly
was a negative double, and he was expecting you to bid one of the
minors. If either of you were asked, you would have explained it as
this.
BTW, the word is "agreement", not "arrangement".
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
MA
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