wank, on 2016-January-26, 03:46, said:
i never said i'm more likely to psyche against weak players. in fact, it's quite the opposite and i play most of my bridge in a country unpolluted by convention cards (they're mostly useless, though i do like the EBU leads diagram).
the authorities police whether or not one's psyching habits constitute an implicit understanding through the use of psyche record forms. fwiw my partner wrote on the form that i had never psyched with him, but i had made such a psyche against him (he's a globally recognised bridge name). i don't think that constitutes an implicit agreement to psyche against bad players.
What I dislike is that most posters give implicitly the impression that psyching in the bidding is something legal but tainted, in particular against weaker players.
What is objectionable is having implicit agreements which you keep hidden from opponents. But this is not something confined to psyches.
Like in real life, in poker or in the play of the cards, deception is part of the game and we need no thought police to regulate this matter any further.
End of story.
Rainer Herrmann