[blml] Revoke then adjust to different contract [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

David Grabiner:

>N-S play in 4H, a contract which they may have reached through use of UI.
>Ten tricks are cold, but West revokes.  After the adjustment, N-S take 11
>tricks, which is impossible without the revoke.  (E-W had taken two aces
>at the first two tricks, and West revoked later by overruffing with the
>high trump.) -620 is already a bad score for E-W, so they are still
>entitled to an adjustment.
>
>How do you treat the revoke when awarding an adjusted score, if you
>adjust to a different contract?

WBF Code of Practice, pages 5 and 6:

>>Score adjustment
>>
>>The award of an assigned adjusted score (see Law 12C2) is appropriate
>>when a violation of law causes damage to an innocent side (although the
>>extent of redress to this side may be affected, see below, if it has
>>contributed to its own damage by irrational, wild or gambling, action
>>subsequent to the infraction). Damage exists when, in consequence of
>>the infraction, an innocent side obtains a table result less favourable
>>than would have been the expectation in the instant prior to the
>>infraction.
>>
>>If the damaged side has wholly or partly caused its own damage by
>>irrational, wild or gambling action, it does not receive relief in the
>>adjustment for such part of the damage as is self-inflicted. The
>>offending side, however, should be awarded the score that it would have
>>been allotted as the normal consequence of its infraction. A revoke by
>>the innocent side subsequent to the infraction will affect its own
>>score but again the infractor's score is to be adjusted as before
>>without regard to the revoke.

David Grabiner:

>For example, if you adjust to 3H, and the play would go the same, do you
>award +200/-200?

Richard Hills:

A WBF Code of Practice ruling would be +170/-200.

David Grabiner:

>If you adjust to 5C, and the same ten tricks are available, do you award
>11 tricks for +600/-600, or 10 tricks for -100/+100, or compromise by
>giving the matchpoint score for -100/+100, minus the difference between
>-620 and -650 for E-W and plus the same difference for N-S?

Richard Hills:

A WBF Code of Practice ruling would be -100/-600.

David Grabiner:

>If you adjust to 3S by E-W, which makes three for -140/+140, how do you
>account for the revoke?

Richard Hills:

North-South must get -140.  But the East-West score is a question where
the WBF Code of Practice is silent.

Does it make a difference if the revoking West is deemed to be the 3S
declarer (so might be deemed to make the same revoke in 3S) or if the
revoking West is deemed to be the 3S dummy (so might be deemed to play
cards in 3S on the instructions of the non-revoking East)?

:-)


Best wishes

Richard James Hills, amicus curiae
National Training Branch
02 6225 6285