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Philosophical Question on 'Wrong D/P is not an Error'

Posted By: Gregg Cattanach
Date: Friday, 11 December 2009, at 7:45 p.m.

In Response To: Philosophical Question on 'Wrong D/P is not an Error' (Robert Maier)

if you don't know if *your opponent* knows if it's a take or pass it must be a double.

This is probably more accurate than the plain Woolsey Rule, but I think you need to state where the uncertainty is a little more precisely. It isn't MY ignorance of the position or MY ignorance of my opponent's assessment, but HIS ignorance that invokes the Woolsey Rule.

More accurately: If I know *my opponent* doesn't know if it's a take or pass it must be a double.

People have misinterpreted Woolsey's Rule at times to something like: "I have no clue about this position, therefore I double." That's was not his intention.

Also, if you just look at the math a bit regarding Woolsey's rule, it's really trivial. If I take my opponent's side and am unsure if it is a take or a pass, then it MUST be NEAR the take/pass line, and (for most match scores) that means it must be well within the doubling window. If my opponent assesses the position poorly and is ambivent about the take or pass, then the position is close to the top of HIS doubling window.

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