[blml] Pointing out who won the trick

[Henri DEFRANCHI]

I think law 73 "communication between partners during the auction and play shall be effected only by means of the calls and plays themselves" supplant law 9....... So....





> Message du 05/10/06 02:39
> De : "Ed Reppert" 
> A : "Bridge Laws Mailing List" 
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> Objet : [blml] Pointing out who won the trick
> 
> It is commonly accepted in my neck of the woods (Rochester, NY) that 
> a defender is permitted to point out to his partner that he has 
> turned his card of the just completed trick the wrong way, so long as 
> he does so "right away" (whatever that means). However, I am told by 
> others, mostly not in the ACBL, that it is illegal to do so. I can 
> find no law which explicitly addresses this question, no law that 
> authorizes it and none that expressly forbid it. I did find, howver, 
> that in minute #8 of its 24 September 1998 meeting, the WBFLC said 
> "The Secretary drew attention to those who argued that where an 
> action was stated in the laws (or regulations) to be authorised, 
> other actions if not expressly forbidden were also legitimate. The 
> Committee ruled that this is not so; the Scope of the Laws states 
> that the laws define correct procedure and anything not specified in 
> the laws is, therefore, 'extraneous' and it may be deemed an 
> infraction of law if information deriving from it is used in the 
> auction or the play."
> 
> 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?
> 
> Assuming I am, how the Hell is anyone supposed to tell that a player 
> in fact did commit that infraction?
> 
> 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 , and there really is an easy way to deal with it.
> 
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