[blml] Law 12A1 and Law 12B [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[David Barton]

> Richard Hills (current post):
> 
> The primary question I seek to discuss is whether an unfettered Law
> 12A1 is desirable.  It seems to me that Kaplan was forced to change
> his mind on the scope of Law 12A1 between 1975 and 1984 because some
> creative "Probst cheats" found a loophole in the 1975 Lawbook, which
> loophole has now been plugged by the current Lawbook's Law 72B1.
> 
> But are there any unaddressed loopholes in the 1997 Lawbook which
> require that Law 12A1 should be permitted to over-ride Law 12B?
> 

This case was discussed here before:-

                               -
                               5
                               5
                               -
K                                                         6
4                                                          -
-                                                           -
-                                                          7

                               -
                               8
                               -
                               8
South is declarer in a No Trump contract and has lost the plot.
West leads the SK and dummy is instructed to "play anything".
When West objects, declarer can infer that West's remaining card
is a H or D and therefore plays the C8 from hand.

The conclusion was, if I remember correctly, that (only) L46B5
should be applied and that there was no redress for the real
possibility that both H's would have been played on the SK.

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