Re: Bobby Wolff book

On Apr 30, 8:31=A0pm, David Babcock <d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > and CD
> > (Convention Disruption) have no basis in Law (AFAIK)
>
> and we learned last September that this won't change for the next ten
> years, so we all will continue to have random results at the table
> because of opponents who play methods they cannot remember or even
> understand, partly because they have never suffered any adverse
> consequence except the bad result when it happens. =A0I won't go so far
> as to applaud dealing with this outside the Laws, but I can certainly
> understand some of the appeal (so to speak) that Wolff may have in
> some quarters.
>
> David

I had many of those "Convention Disruptiion" discussions with Wolff. I
said that I thought it was a disconnect with the new and developing
players who would feel really badly for being punished when learing
something new. Wolff responded, "Who cares about them? I only care
about top level bridge." Unfortunately for Uncle Big Bad, the laws
don't make any distinction between new and developing players and "top
level" players. Kaplan always said that he refused to punish people
when they forget something when they would not be punished if they
intentially psyched the bid.

Kaplan always told me that he could find something in the laws to make
just about any ruling that he wanted to make. Wolff didn't want to
bother with looking or paying any attention to any rules. I believe
people live their lives about the same way as they play bridge. :-)

JB