Re: Quick question for any directors out there please.

Rob Morris wrote:

> 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.

You missed the point that the 1997 laws limit the power of SO's to
"initial 
actions at the one level to be made with a hand of a king or more below 
average strength". So the Orange Book seems illegal under the old laws.