[blml] claim

[Alain Gottcheiner]

At 13:46 1/07/2006 +0100, John Probst wrote:

>Irrational. He'll spot that LHO discards, and when the the diamonds come
>good, he has 12 tricks. On a different layout I may not have permitted him
>to pick up the D suit.  Ruling a disputed claim. The primary job is to
>restore equity, but with dubious points in favour of NOs. There is nothing
>dubious here. Any TD going the other route is absurd.

Disagree. The timing of the claim shows South thought spades couldn't be a 
problem anymore.
The fact that West discards won't deter him from that.