maartenxq, on 2018-August-29, 02:36, said:
But nevertheless you like gloating about it in this chat.
It's not gloating, just passing on an amusing incident. We all do it, sometimes about our own screw-ups, sometimes about the opponents'. It's inappropriate to accuse him of anything more than this.
OTOH, there isn't really anything "interesting" about this, so the whole thread is a bit unnecessary. People have bidding misunderstandings all the time, and sometimes they're disastrous. This week at the club I got a score I don't think I've seen before, -770, when I mistook my partner's takeout double for penalty: 3♣X making 6 when we could have made 3♥. We could have held them to 5, but it would still have been the same bottom.
Every time I make a splinter bid, especially with a new partner, there's that naggling worry in the back of my mind that partner will take it as natural.