[blml] The Rubaiyat of Law 58B2

[Sven Pran]

> On Behalf Of Peter Eidt
> > (Intending to lead the S2 from SQ32, dropping the SQ and S2 together,
> > and choosing to play the SQ)
.............
> > The S2 became exposed as the result of an inadvertent action; it was
> > not deliberately played in the sense of the other examples of major
> > penalty cards in L50B (lead out of turn or revoke retracted).
> > Consistent with the spirit of the Law, and the fact that the S2 had
> > not been played at the time of the infraction, I rule that the S2 is a
> > minor penalty card.
> 
> No, not the exposure of the S2 was inadvertent, but
> the exposure of the SQ. Although Law 58 B2 allows a
> change of mind by selecting the card offender (now)
> proposes to play, law 50 B does not allow so.

Read Law 50B again:

A single card below the rank of an honour and exposed inadvertently (as in
playing two cards to a trick, or .....) becomes a minor penalty card.

There is no question about which (if any) of the two exposed cards he
intended to play. He must select one of them (Law 58B2) and the other is
treated as an inadvertently exposed card.

The S2 becomes a minor penalty card.

Regards Sven