[Vampyr]

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Disallowed: Psyching of artificial or conventional opening bids and/or conventional responses thereto. Psyching conventional suit responses, which are less than 2NT, to natural openings.

Surely this cannot be legal. And I doubt it is true -- if it were, you couldn't psych a transfer response to 1NT (to name a simple example that springs readily to mind).

[RMB1]

Vampyr, on 2011-May-13, 20:25, said:

Surely this cannot be legal. And I doubt it is true -- if it were, you couldn't psych a transfer response to 1NT ...

I don't see why there is an inalienable right to psyche transfer responses to 1NT.

The laws seem clear

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Law 40B2: (d) The Regulating Authority may restrict the use of psychic artificial calls.

[barmar]

There's been controversy over that clause of the GCC for years. 40B2(d) was presumably added in the 2007 laws specifically to put the matter to rest. Now it's specifically allowed.

[Vampyr]

RMB1, on 2011-May-13, 21:12, said:

I don't see why there is an inalienable right to psyche transfer responses to 1NT.

Me neither; it was just a simple example that I thought of.

[hrothgar]

Vampyr, on 2011-May-13, 20:25, said:

Surely this cannot be legal. And I doubt it is true -- if it were, you couldn't psych a transfer response to 1NT (to name a simple example that springs readily to mind).

As I understand matters this regulation dates back to a case where Marston psyched a strong club opening.
He scored up a nice board, however, folks quickly passed regulations that baned psyching strong artificial openings.
This was latter extended to conventions in general.

[Vampyr]

hrothgar, on 2011-May-16, 03:58, said:

As I understand matters this regulation dates back to a case where Marston psyched a strong club opening.
He scored up a nice board, however, folks quickly passed regulations that banned psyching strong artificial openings.
This was later extended to conventions in general.

Oh, the horror, a psych worked! It's sort of strange, because the ACBL seem to be trending in the opposite direction to the rest of the world. THe EBU used to ban psychs of the partnership's strongest opening bid, but no longer.