[blml] Clubbed Queen

[Ed Reppert]

I said, inter alia:

>> It seems that either we allow East to withdraw his card, or we rule
>> that he is required to have noticed that the declarer has committed
>> an irregularity, required to call attention to that irregularity, and
>> required to take no further action (such as playing the CQ) until the
>> TD has ruled on the irregularity. There is nothing in law that
>> requires any of that, save that *if* attention is called to an
>> irregularity, TD must be called, and no further action can take place
>> until he rules (Law 9).

How, Sven, do you counter this argument? Or do you say that we do  
indeed require a player to have noticed that an irregularity has  
occurred, and to call attention thereto (or, presumably, sit and do  
nothing until someone else does)? If the latter, what is the legal  
basis of this position?