Re: Sieberts win NA Swiss

"David Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> John Blubaugh wrote
> >"Giovanni Bobbio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >> John Blubaugh wrote:
>
> >> > Please don't leave the impression that they did anything unethical.
They
> >> > were barred from playing together because they fought at the table
and
> >in
> >> > the halls and it was a disruption and dangerous.
>
> >> Looks like they did do something unethical, they just didn't cheat.
>
> >They argued with each other and took away from their opponents pleasure
in
> >playing the game. That may be disagreeable but it certainly isn't
unethical.
> >If it is, then about 1/2 of the ACBL has been guilty of unethical
behavior
> >some time in their playing lives.
>
>    Funny idea some people have about ethics.
>
>    They breached the Laws on the Proprieties of Bridge - and most people
> think ethics and proprieties are the same.
>
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No, MOST people do not and if I heard you say they were unethical in person,
I would drag you to a committee room and try to have you suspended. I saw in
1994 how Europeans act at the bridge table and when it comes to rudeness
(especially the French) we are not in the same league with your players. I
saw the recorder forms, I sat in on the committees and the French alone had
more charges of bad conduct than the rest of the tournament players
combined. But, you know what, nobody ever called them unethical.

We have CONDUCT and Ethics Committees. If your view was correct, we would
only have Ethics Committees.

John Blubaugh