Re: Quick question for any directors out there please.

Kieran Dyke wrote:
> <darren.cotterell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>> AK962
>> JT987
>> 62
>> 2
> Under which law can the SO ban this opening bid? It's not a king below 
> average strength and isn't artificial. Seems to me that the ruling is 
> blatantly unsup****ted by the laws of bridge.
> 
> Happily, this coincides with my strongly held view that decisions about 
> what constitutes an opening bid are best made by bridge players, not 
> officials.

A glance at the relevant EBU handbook suggests openings that don't meet 
the rule of *eighteen* (at this level of play) are regulated by banning 
any artificial calls in the subsequent auction.

(2006 Orange Book 10 E 3, pp. 42)

Hence the given hand is fine, but if you agreed to open it in 
novice-or-holiday-level bridge (EBU Level 2), then agreeing to play 
anything, even Blackwood, over it would make your system illegal.

Not-a-director, hope this is right.