[blml] Clubbed Queen

[Sven Pran]

> On Behalf Of Ed Reppert
> On Nov 1, 2006, at 3:59 AM, Sven Pran wrote:
> 
> > I require East to pay sufficient attention to the game (Law 74B1)
> > to be
> > aware that no card has been played from Dummy and thus does not
> > play his own
> > card to that trick.
> 
> "No card has been played from dummy"
> 
> "Declarer plays a card from dummy by naming the card"
> 
> Declarer named a card.  Seems to me a card has been played. Unless...
> 
> "If declarer calls a card that is not in dummy, the call is void"
> 
> Do you assert that this law says that declarer's play is void
> instantly, without anyone calling attention to the irregularity, and
> without anyone calling the TD?

Of course I do. Declarer has called a card that cannot be played because it
doesn't exist in Dummy, what else is there to do?

There is a remote similarity to a situation where a player bids "two pins"
in an auction. That bid doesn't exist but his call is made in the same way
as if such a bid exists. Do you rule that he has made a bid? I don't.
 
> If East, in playing CQ, has violated Law 74B1 in addition to other
> laws, do you penalize him for it (exclusive of whatever action you
> take in regard to his violation of any other law)? If not, why not?

I shall tell him to pay attention to the game. Note that I consider this to
be a warning - the mildest form of a procedure penalty.

Sven