[blml] Pointing out who won the trick

[Marvin French]

From: "Ed Reppert"


>(snip)>

> It appears to me, then, that a defender should not tell his
partner
> that he has turned a card the wrong way, in that doing so is
> "extraneous", and not proper procedure. However, if a player does
so,
> the act is no more an infraction than is the passing of UI by
other
> means, for example by hesitating. The legal infraction, if one
were
> to occur, would be the use of the extraneous information by its
> recipient (the player who had his card turned wrong).
>
> Am I right so far?

Not quite. The deliberate generation of UI to  help partner (unlike
a hesitation) is in itself an infraction of Law 73A1: Communication
between partners during the auction and play shall be effected only
by means of the calls and plays themselves.
>
> Assuming I am, how the Hell is anyone supposed to tell that a
player
> in fact did commit that infraction?

You mean by profiting from the UI. Impossible to tell, of course.
>
> If I'm right, both the local position (it's okay to tell him) and
the
> "other" positions (that it is completely illegal to tell him) are
> wrong. But if I'm right, the law in this case is IMO very
difficult,
> if not impossible, to administer. Personally, I hope someone can
tell
> me (and point to a legal basis) either that I and the local
position
> are both wrong, and that the "other" position is right. Failing
that,
> that I'm right <g>, and there really is an easy way to deal with
it.
>
One does not help partner, and the ACBL's exercise of the option to
do so in some situations is deplorable. This is not one of those
situations, and the TD should lecture an offender with threat of a
PP should the practice be repeated.

Marv
Marvin L. French
San Diego, California
www.marvinfrench.com