[blml] The Rubaiyat of Law 58B2

[Herman De Wael]

Sven Pran wrote:
>>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
> 

I'm siding with Peter on this one. We know that 2 cards are always 
MPC, but also quite reasonably rule that each of two played 
simultaneously can remain a mPC, provided L50B applies.

So we need to examine the S2 in the light of L50B, and it contains 2 
conditions: it must be a small card (it is) and it must be exposed 
inadvertently. That, according to the story, is not the case. Major PC

-- 
Herman DE WAEL
Antwerpen Belgium
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