[blml] British bridge terminology

[Jean-Pierre Rocafort]

Brian a écrit :
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> On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:33:22 +0200
> Jean-Pierre Rocafort <jean-pierre.rocafort at meteo.fr> wrote:
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>>   i find it very disconcerting that one advocates breaking the laws 
>> because many people use to do so. 
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> I'm just recognising reality. I know nothing of bridge in France, but
> in my 25 years experience of British club bridge (up until I emigrated,
> 10 years ago) the use of "ruff" rather than "trump" is at the very least
> overwhelming. Bridge books use it, TDs use it, players use it, everyone
> knows that "ruff" means "trump". 
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> All this hoo-hah about a player trying to ruff in a No Trump contract,
> my view is that you should deal with him in exactly the same way as if
> he'd said "trump" rather than "ruff" - and as has been noted, the word
> "trump" IS defined for the purposes of L46A. At least at an English
> bridge club, the two terms are equivalent, at least in my opinion and
> experience. 

it's not what i meant. i agree to see ruff and trump as equivalent: both
are irregularities in reference to L46A. the appearence of the word
"suit" in the definition of "trump" doesn't make a suit of trump. in
order to know what are the elements of the set "suits" i think we need
to see the definition of "suit", in which there are only 4 elements. i
agree the use of trump will seldom make any difference but sometimes it
will and i think the wording of L46A is accurate. sometimes the use of
"trump" could be a mess: declarer is mistaken about the contract or
dummy is not paying attention and doesn't play the card declarer asked.
the same can be said about the rank. it seldom makes any difference when
declarer doesn't name it and players mechanically apply L46B but
sometimes... once piotr gawrys was declarer in a desperate NT contract.
   the lead was in dummy who had something like KQ875 in spades without
any further entry and rho J943, and no other spades in both other hands.
he called high spade (dummy played K, rho 3), then "spade" and rho
carelessly played the 4, unable to imagine declarer playing anything
other than Q. this was reported as a clever play from gawrys. it would
not have been successfull if he had called "5 of spades". who is to
blame? declarer, rho, L46, common usage?

jpr
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> Brian. 
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