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qwery_hi, on Aug 20 2009, 07:41 PM, said:
FrancesHinden, on Aug 20 2009, 06:19 AM, said:
qwery_hi, on Aug 19 2009, 06:42 PM, said:
RichMor, on Aug 19 2009, 06:34 AM, said:
awm, on Aug 19 2009, 01:43 AM, said:
In my opinion, there is ethical bridge and there is winning bridge. The laws should be constructed in such a way that these two things are the same as often as possible. It should not be the case that people who are ethical put themselves at a huge competitive disadvantage as opposed to people who are not ethical. So any place where the laws substantially reward unethical behavior should be rewritten.
Adam,
Sounds like Edgar Kaplan, and that's a good thing.
RichM
I would go further and say that I'd be more comfortable with awm in a position of power to decide laws/conventions than I am with the current people in their ivory towers who never seem to have the time to participate in these kinds of discussions online.
Well, that's jeremy69, mamos, bluejak, dburn and me put in our place. Maybe we shouldn't bother posting, as apparently it's not noticed when we do.
My apologies for hurting the feelings of EBU, the point I was making was ACBL specific.
Given that awm and I am in the ACBL, and furthermore your examples are all in Europe and not the ACBL, I'd say that my point is still valid. Perhaps the members of EBU are satisfied that their voices are being heard, but as a member of the ACBL, the people deciding the laws/conventions seem distant and aloof. How many of them are participants in either rec.games.bridge or the BBO forums? Does the ACBL have a blog for conventions/laws where the members on the committees regularly post?
Adam Wildavsky, Vice-Chair of the ACBL Laws Commission, is a regular poster at the Bridge Laws Mailing List.