[blml] Pointing out who won the trick [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Robert Geller]

Roger Pewick writes:
>There is a lot to be said for treating players the same.  At the moment, I 
>am having difficulty thinking of why declarer should be singled out and 
>treated differently here.  My initial impression is that players [and 
>directors] will confuse 'who' has the right to draw attention and who 
>doesn't.

Because declarer is the sole controller of his hand and the dummy,
there is no danger of UI.  Plus rubber bridge tradition of dummy asking 
"no spades pard?" was respected.   On the other hand the danger of
UI was considered higher for defenders.   You may not agree with this,
but those were the reasons for treating defenders differently from
the declarer-dummy pair.

-Bob

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Robert (Bob) Geller,     Tokyo, Japan        geller at nifty.com