[blml] Revoke then adjust to different contract

[Eric Landau]

At 11:51 PM 9/6/06, David wrote:

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

Yes.

>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?

10 tricks.  Presumably the play in 5C would have gone quite 
differently, and there's no reason to presume that a different revoke 
would occur under different circumstances.

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

You don't.


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