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A. |
Proper
Communication between Partners |
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How Effected |
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Communication between partners during the auction
and play shall be effected only by means of the calls and plays
themselves. |
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2. |
Correct Manner for Calls and
Plays |
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Calls and plays should be made without special
emphasis, mannerism or inflection, and without undue hesitation or haste
(however, sponsoring organisations may require mandatory pauses, as on the
first round of auction, or after a skip-bid warning, or on the first
trick). |
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B. |
Inappropriate Communication Between Partners |
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1. |
Gratuitous
Information |
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Partners shall not communicate through the manner
in which calls or plays are made, through extraneous remarks or gestures,
through questions asked or not asked of the opponents or through alerts and
explanations given or not given to them. |
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2. |
Prearranged
Communication |
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The gravest possible offence is for a partnership
to exchange information through prearranged methods of communication other than
those sanctioned by these Laws. A guilty partnership risks expulsion. |
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C. |
Player
Receives Unauthorised Information from Partner |
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When a player has available to him unauthorised
information from his partner, as from a remark, question, explanation, gesture,
mannerism, special emphasis, inflection, haste or hesitation, he must carefully
avoid taking any advantage that might accrue to his side. |
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D. |
Variations
in Tempo or Manner |
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1. |
Inadvertent
Variations |
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It is desirable, though not always required, for
players to maintain steady tempo and unvarying manner. However, players should
be particularly careful in positions in which variations may work to the
benefit of their side. Otherwise, inadvertently to vary the tempo or manner in
which a call or play is made does not in itself constitute a violation of
propriety, but inferences from such variation may appropriately be drawn only
by an opponent, and at his own risk. |
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2. |
Intentional
Variations |
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A player may not attempt to mislead an opponent
by means of remark or gesture, through the haste or hesitancy of a call or play
(as in hesitating before playing a singleton), or by the manner in which the
call or play is made. |
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E. |
Deception |
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A player may appropriately attempt to deceive an
opponent through a call or play (so long as the deception is not protected by
concealed partnership understanding or experience). It is entirely appropriate
to avoid giving information to the opponents by making all calls and plays in
unvarying tempo and manner. |
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F. |
Violation of
Proprieties |
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When a violation of the Proprieties described in
this law results in damage to an innocent opponent, |
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1. |
Player Acts on Unauthorised
Information |
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if the Director determines that a player chose
from among logical alternative actions one that could demonstrably have been
suggested over another by his partners remark, manner, tempo, or the
like, he shall award an adjusted score (see Law
16). |
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2. |
Player Injured by Illegal
Deception |
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if the Director determines that an innocent
player has drawn a false inference from a remark, manner, tempo, or the like,
of an opponent who has no demonstrable bridge reason for the action, and who
could have known, at the time of the action, that the action could work to his
benefit, the Director shall award an adjusted score (see Law 12C), |