aguahombre, on 2014-February-25, 10:25, said:
Yes, we must disclose as completely as possible that we signal or don't signal in certain situations; that only the person who believes his partner will need the information will do any righteous signalling, and in what situations those signals will be attitude or count or whatever.
When Declarer asks us to tell him whether -- at a particular point -- whose signals are meaningful to whom (and whether at that moment they are attitude or count or whatever), we don't have to answer that.
Rik would have the TD ask (for the opponents) "Given the auction and play, what will your partner need to know?" This is a direct quote from his post. This is what I don't have to tell the opponents, no matter whether they ask, the TD asks, or God asks. My only proper reply would be to repeat the explanation of our carding agreements in the form Gnasher and others have properly recommended.
Simple example: Partner leads the ACE of a side suit (vs suit) at trick one. There is a singleton in dummy. I play a card, and Declarer asks about my "signal". Partner answers that our agreement is to use suit preference in this situation, but only if we believe the information to be useful to the opening leader. Declarer asks if this time the information would be believed useful to her. If she answers, she is revealing whether or not she herself has all the remaining cards of significance.
In your posts where you quote me, you forgot to quote an important part of my post. The first thing I wrote was "Put your cards down.". This clearly signified that you should not say anything about your hand.
The point in the OP is not the question whether one signals or not, but what one signals. You give an example about a player who says that this is a suit preference situation if it is a signal. The player in the OP does not explain at all what was signaled, other than "what partner needs to know". It cannot be that a pair that has some experience together doesn't know for the lion share of the situations what partner needs to know. And to be clear: these situations are mainly determined by the auction and the cards played and rarely by the cards one holds.
Rik