[blml] Revoke established?

[Sven Pran]

> On Behalf Of Jan Peter Pals
> Sent: 4. juli 2006 13:20
> To: Sven Pran; blml
> Subject: RE: [blml] Revoke established?
> 
> > > 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).

Good point, but Dummy did not "play" his single club; he "placed" his single
club in a played position. That is an essential and important difference.

Regards Sven