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

Henk Uijterwaal wrote:

> BBO expert wrote:
>> dancle16@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> But since he didn't open with 1N, surely partner isn't required to
>> _explain_
>> what 1N means.  He's required to explain what 1C means and seems to
have
>> done so.
> 
> No, law 20F says that one may ask about relevant calls that were
possible
> but not made.
> 
> Asking about the 1NT range in a strong C system seems relevant here, at
> least to me.

OK, except that it could hardly have been a "Weak NT" if it had to be 15+
points.  The opponent obviously asked the wrong question, but partner
seemed to focus on that rather than explaining what he should.