WHITE BOOK 2004 EBU Tournament Directors' Guide Edited by ...

White Book – November 2003 – Chapter I
0.5 Abbreviations
The following are used throughout:
DIC Director-in-Charge
EBL European Bridge League
EBU English Bridge Union
HP Hybrid Point
L&EC Laws & Ethics Committee
MP Match-point
TD Tournament Director
VP Victory Point
WBF World Bridge Federation
WBFLC World Bridge Federation’s Laws Committee
When we use the expression DIC rather than TD we refer to powers that the DIC does
not expect to delegate to his assistants.
Scope of the Laws
0.6 Extraneous action [WBFLC]
Is an action that is not mentioned in the Laws legal? Anything not mentioned is
‘extraneous’. It may be considered illegal if information deriving from it is used.
For example, the Laws permit a player to look at his opponents’ convention card at his
own turn to call or play. Some people have suggested that since the Laws do not
mention anything about a player looking at his opponents’ convention card at other
players’ turns then that is legal. But that is not so.
[WBFLC minutes 1997-10-19#8]
0.7 Score adjustment [WBFLC]
Score adjustment is for redressing damage to one side, and taking away advantage
from the other side, not for punishing them.
[WBFLC minutes 2000-01-20#12]
Definitions: Convention
0.8 Denomination [WBFLC]
This reads:
‘1. A call that, by partnership agreement, conveys a meaning other than
willingness to play in the denomination named (or in the last denomination
named), or …..’
The phrase in parentheses referring to the last denomination named only refers to
cases where a pass, double or redouble is being considered, so that there may be a
willingness to play in that denomination.
[WBFLC minutes 1997-10-19#7]
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