[blml] The Rubaiyat of Law 58B2

[John Probst]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sven Pran" <svenpran at online.no>
To: "blml" <blml at rtflb.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: [blml] The Rubaiyat of Law 58B2


>> 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.

We visit this one every now and then. For a while I went for the 
inadvertent, thus minor penalty card, but the card led was the S2 and the SQ 
was inadverntent, and I go the major PC route. I think that's what we're 
doing in the uk at the moment, but it could change back again.  John
>
> Regards Sven
>
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