Vampyr, on 2011-June-10, 10:13, said:
Well, I thought your post was clear and concise, yet thorough. I really don't understand how there can be any further discussion following it.
How cute... Nigel has a sockpuppet.
Going back to Nigel's original post:
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Luckily, your other partnership understandings mandate one and only one possible call.
The understanding about that call is therefore implicit in your system, even if you've never discussed it and it's never come up before.
I don't recall anyone ever establishing that the decision to bid 3
♥ was mandated by partnership understanding. From my perspective, we don't have anything remotely resembling an explanation why East chose to bid 3
♥.
For example, the verbiage accompanying the 3
♥ bid seems to have changed rather dramatically during the course of the conversation.
In the original post, Math609 made the following statement
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When East after the hand said that he had no bid for this hand in his system, South called the TD and asked to change his defense as he was never informed that East could have this hand.
TD said that South got the correct explanation and the score stands.
This was appealed and the Appeals Committee made the following ruling:
EW play a system that is uncommon and that most would be unfamiliar with. Its in their responsibility to inform NS of all possibilities and make sure they understand the mechanism. EW never tried to explain what possibilities East had, so South had no chance to play East for the hand he had. East on the other hand picked 3♥ out of possible bids, knowing he would promise 3+ hearts at the time he bid, so this was not a case of misexplanation of the EW agreement of the bid, but more of too little explanation of possibilities East had.
Three days later, in post #38 Math609 has significantly changed his story. Here,
for the first time, we see the claim that the 3
♥ was the only possible bid with the given hand.
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Was the Appeal Committee on the right track? Possibly yes, but this is a wery difficult case for many reasons: Highly unusal system, very uncommon to their opponents. And let´s not forget the statement from East: He had no other rebid on an fairly balanced hand and 3♥ was the only bid available for his hand.
I'm not claiming that Math609 is deliberately lying, however, there is all sorts of evidence that the human mind has a habit of rewriting memories...