CHAPTER V
THE AUCTION ![polish version](../poland.gif)
PART II
IRREGULARITIES IN PROCEDURE
SECTION SIX
CONVENTIONS AND AGREEMENTS
LAW 40
- PARTNERSHIP UNDERSTANDINGS ![polish version](../poland.gif)
- A. Right to Choose Call or Play
- A player may make any call or play (including an intentionally misleading
call - such as a psychic bid - or a call or play that departs from commonly
accepted, or previously announced, use of a convention), without prior
announcement, provided that such call or play is not based on a partnership
understanding.
- B. Concealed Partnership Understandings Prohibited
- A player may not make a call or play based on a special partnership
understanding unless an opposing pair may reasonably be expected to understand
its meaning, or unless his side discloses the use of such call or play
in accordance with the regulations of the sponsoring organisation.
- C. Director's Option
- If the Director decides that a side has been damaged through its opponents'
failure to explain the full meaning of a call or play, he may award an
adjusted score.
- D. Regulation of Conventions
- The sponsoring organisation may regulate the use of bidding or play
conventions. Zonal organisations may, in addition, regulate partnership
understandings (even if not conventional) that permit the partnership's
initial actions at the one level to be made with a hand of a king or more
below average strength; Zonal organisations may delegate this responsibility.
- E. Convention Card
- 1. Right to Prescribe
- The sponsoring organisation may prescribe a convention card on which
partners are to list their conventions and other agreements, and may establish
regulations for its use, including a requirement that both members of a
partnership employ the same system (such a regulation must not restrict
style and judgement, only method).
- 2. Referring to Opponents' Convention Card
- During the auction and play, any player except dummy may refer to his
opponents' convention card at his own turn to call or play, but not to
his own
.
A player is not entitled, during the auction and
play periods, to any aids to his memory, calculation or technique. However,
sponsoring organisations may designate unusual methods and allow written
defences against opponents' unusual methods to be referred to at the table.
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1997