[blml] Only unanimous comments please.

[Alain Gottcheiner]

At 13:01 26/10/2006 +0100, Tim West-Meads wrote:


>So the player says "Hmm, the..".  Which card is played?

What about French ? " la ..." means he intended to play the Queen, since 
this is the only feminine denomination of a card. It could be the beginning 
of "l'As", however. Or "la petite" (the small one). But it could also be 
something else than a card name, for example : "la 4e, c'est bien ça ?" 
(4th best, right ?) before playing from dummy on trick 1.

What about calling a card from dummy to next trick : "small" ? It is 
incomplete, but is deemed to be the same suit. Then, what if "small ... 
spade" ?

What about "ruff please" when the denomination is notrumps ? (it has 
happened before)

Perhaps any designation or furmula other than those mentioned in L46 should 
be void.

Best regards

    Alain


>There is no
>bridge reason that declarer should not change his mind after seeing
>LHO's card and before completing his call and IMO only low-life scum
>would actually want declarer to be forced to play a card when he
>*clearly* hasn't designated one in this situation.  It's the same as with
>spoken bidding where "Two hear.. spades" is purely a matter of possible
>UI and there is no question of applying L25/27 etc because the 2H bid
>hasn't been made.
>
>Tim
>
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