EBL TD Course 2006

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EBL TD Course 2006

• Hesitation
• and
• extraneous information
• by Slawek Latala

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Law 16.A

• ...After a player makes available to his partner
  extraneous information that may suggest a call or
  play by unmistakable hesitation the partner may
  not choose from among logical alternative actions
  one that could demonstrably have been suggested
  over another by the extraneous information...

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What kind of information does the hesitation
carry in this example?

• What kind of partners hand can you (as West)
  expect after hesitation?
• a) KJ10xx, Kxx, x, xxxx
• b) K109xx, xx, Qxx, xxx
• c) Q9xxxx, xx, xx, xxx
• d) K10xxx, QJxx, xx, xx
• e) K109xx, Q10xx, K, xxxx

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Is hesitation

• a) encouraging? - H
• b) discouraging? - H-
• c) unimportant? - H
• H

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Answer the same question in the next cases

• Is hesitation
• a) encouraging? - H
• b) discouraging? - H-
• c) unimportant? - H

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What kind of information hesitation carries?What
is your decision?
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Summary

• When hesitation is
• H
• H-
• H?
• Define each bid as
• weak
• average
• strong

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Example

• 1) check back
• 2? 2?, minimum
• 2? 3?, maximum
• 2? 3?, minimum
• 2NT 2?, maximum

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Case 1

• average!
• means?
• H

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Case 2

• weak!
• means?
• H

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Case 3

• strong!
• means?
• H-

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Case 4

• weak!
• means?
• H

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Case 5

• average!
• means?
• H

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Case 6

• strong!
• means?
• H-

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