pescetom, on 2024-March-11, 11:10, said:
So you were thinking about the way people do not follow uniform procedure in calling, which is one point of 74A.
Fair enough, although I worry more about uniform procedure in playing, which is a serious issue anywhere, not just in North America.
From a technical point of view I guess your thick skinned players have twisted the Laws to their side, as 46B goes on to explain proper ways to violate Proper Form for Designating And 46 presumably supercedes 74A3 as it is more specific. A vulnus of the Laws in any case.
Fair enough, although I worry more about uniform procedure in playing, which is a serious issue anywhere, not just in North America.
From a technical point of view I guess your thick skinned players have twisted the Laws to their side, as 46B goes on to explain proper ways to violate Proper Form for Designating And 46 presumably supercedes 74A3 as it is more specific. A vulnus of the Laws in any case.
There is some uniform procedure in playing but often dummy reaches for a card before instructed, declarer calls for card from dummy before LHO has played, players detach a card and hesitate, then put it back and play another card, players vary the tempo and method of playing cards and so on. I'm sure they are not "cheating".
I don't think the Bridge Players have necessarily twisted the laws, society has established new norms for acceptable bahviour and language. We've come a long way from the men sitting around the card table in suits, smoking while the wives chattered in the kitchen.