Re: How many questions about an opening bid before it's UI?

On Apr 23, 2:00 pm, Michael Angelo Ravera <marav...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> On Apr 23, 1:03 pm, dancl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
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> > It appears from your description of the hand that the opponents were
> > trying to figure out what an opening bid of 1NT means in your system
> > in whichever seat and vulnerability you happened to be in in this
> > hand.  It appears that your partner was not willing to tell them.
>
> > I can't find any UI here.
>
> Yes, my partner could have answered: "Apart from some 5+-level
> preempts, 1C is the ONLY bid we have explicitly to show a hand with 15
> or more HCP. Therefore, all other bids that he could have made are
> limited to 14 HCP or would have been a guess as to what the final
> contract should be or would have asked for some specific cards for a
> grand slam." It seems to me that all of this is implied in the "Any
> 15+, artificial, forcing" or the "STR ART F1" on our convention card
> explanation.
>
> LHO could have asked "what is your 1NT range?" if that is what he
> wanted to know (and since this isn't implicit in either the question
> or the answer about the 1C opener, it would have been reasonable). My
> LHO never got the question out of his mouth that would have suggested
> that this is what he wanted to know and my partner never got it into
> his head that this is what he wanted to know.
>
> Full Disclosure doesn't require us to guess about what opponents want
> to know.

Common sense suggests that if you don't understand the question you
say so, rather than guessing what it means.


> However, my actual question has nothing to do with my opponents' or my
> partner's ethics, but of my own. I'll repeat it: HOW MANY QUESTIONS
> DOES PARTNER HAVE TO ASK ABOUT AN OPENING BID BEFORE A LEAD IS
> DEMONSTARBLY SUGGESTED?"

Had my LHO in this situation asked more than one question, I would
assume he had a reason for doing it.  But there is more than one
possible reason. For example, he could be considering an overcall in
any suit, or he might be trying to determine which conventional
bidding agreement to apply (e.g., he might bid naturally against a
Polish club but use CRASH against a precision club). Until he links
his interest to the club suit, he has not suggested a lead.


Andrew


Andrew