[ruotal]

Hi all !

At my club, the director defend the multi. He told us that the chart dont permit the 2 diamond multi.
Is it ok to defend this ?
I just want to have another advice on this topic.
it is a bit frustating not to be able to practice our convention.
So much things are tolerate ( wry faces, pick bidding cards before end of auctions, no alerts on personal agreements etc )

tyou

[jtfanclub]

ruotal, on Feb 24 2007, 05:52 PM, said:

Hi all !

At my club, the director defend the multi. He told us that the chart dont permit the 2 diamond multi.
Is it ok to defend this ?
I just want to have another advice on this topic.
it is a bit frustating not to be able to practice our convention.
So much things are tolerate ( wry faces, pick bidding cards before end of auctions, no alerts on personal agreements etc )

tyou

Charts don't matter- clubs can play anything they want.

A lot of clubs do use General Convention Chart, which does not allow multi, but then, a lot of them allow multi 2s and 4-suit pre-emptive 2♦, among others. It's just up to the club

[zasanya]

2♦ multi is allowed in Indian tournaments.Curiouly RCO oprnings aren't.

[mycroft]

In many places, including the WBF, the Multi has been grandfathered in with special permissions. The regulators, who know that, and explain it in the regulations, think very poorly on "Multi is okay, so why not <bid that has all the issues that Multi has, but isn't Multi>?"

In response to the original poster, Regulations are very locale-specific. We would need to know where you are in order to tell you whether something is permitted. In the ACBL, as was said above by JTFanclub, the Multi is Mid-Chart only, and most clubs will not allow Mid-Chart conventions (some clubs are Mid-Chart, or GCC+Multi, defences to NT and a couple of other things they have to pre-approve, on "the big night"). In England, the Multi (with strong option) is level 3, and most clubs are level 3 or higher.

In Australia, I think you can do whatever you want in most clubs as long as it doesn't involve weapons.

So, if you tell us where you are, you'll get a response. If you want to practice the Multi, play online :-).
Michael.

[SoTired]

mycroft, on Feb 26 2007, 01:32 PM, said:

In Australia, I think you can do whatever you want in most clubs as long as it doesn't involve weapons.

In America, weapons are optional.