[blml] Revoke established?

[Jan Peter Pals]

> > On Behalf Of Steve Wright
> > Trick nine: LHO leads a spade, dummy follows, RHO follows, declarer 
> > discards.
> > 
> > Trick ten: LHO leads a club. Dummy plays the only club left in the 
> > dummy in tempo without being instructed by declarer. RHO follows.
> > 
> > Declarer pauses briefly before saying, "Oops I have got a spade. I 
> > think I have revoked on the previous trick".
> > 
> > Is the revoke established?
> 
> My first reaction was "Yes, of course, Dummy has played to 
> the next trick"
> 
> But technically Law 45D saves Declarer; Dummy has placed in 
> the played position a card (his only remaining club) that 
> Declarer did not name. 
> 
> Actually Declarer has not named any card from Dummy for trick 
> ten. The fact that the single club is the only card that can 
> legally be played from Dummy to this trick is irrelevant; no 
> card has yet been played from Dummy to trick ten!
> 
> So No, the revoke is not established, Declarer takes back the 
> card he discarded to trick nine and replaces it with a spade. 
> And Law 62C then applies to trick ten.
> 
> Regards Sven  

But what about L63a1: A revoke becomes established when the offender or
his partner leads or plays to the following trick (any such play,
**legal or illegal**, establishes the revoke). 

Cheers JP