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OleBerg, on Jul 3 2009, 06:26 PM, said:
Free, on Jul 3 2009, 03:20 PM, said:
OleBerg, on Jul 2 2009, 09:50 PM, said:
From the Danish "Players manual":
Law 101 - Allowed partnership agreements.
A. Teams Tournaments
In Teams Tournaments any system and partnership agreement is allowed. Teams tournaments with less than 8 boards a match, is treated as a Pairs
Tournament is this conjecture.
B. Pairs Tournaments and single Players tournaments
In Pairs Tournaments and single Players Tournaments Brown-Stickers and HUMs are not allowed.
Not a long way from perfect.
Law 101 - Allowed partnership agreements.
A. Teams Tournaments
In Teams Tournaments any system and partnership agreement is allowed. Teams tournaments with less than 8 boards a match, is treated as a Pairs
Tournament is this conjecture.
B. Pairs Tournaments and single Players tournaments
In Pairs Tournaments and single Players Tournaments Brown-Stickers and HUMs are not allowed.
Not a long way from perfect.
This is great, as long as you don't need to provide approved defenses
In Belgium we use similar rules, except in low level competition. Belgium is not the Netherlands, and not France! 
You have to provide defenses, but they don't have to be approved. They are expected to be honestly something you believe will work. This has been the practice for the 22 years I've played, and there has not been a single instance of accusations of providing bad defenses. Worst cases has been that the opponents gets a few minutes to make written agreements, the time going from the pair not providing the defence.
In the flagship-tournament of the Danish Bridge federation, you will often get away with not providing a defense, at least not in writing.
Needless to say, there are no constraints on the defenses.
Ps.: Federation is with a non-capitol on purpose. (Whats the name of a letter that is not a capitol?)
I was wrong here, I just found out. In Denmark you dont have to provide a defense. (You had to in the old days though, but I hadn't noticed the recent improvement.)
