[blml] How do you deal with this mess?

[Gampas at aol.com]

In a message dated 05/12/2007 21:53:25 GMT Standard Time,  
guthrie at ntlworld.com writes:
 
[nige1]
>In order to rule to keep the final result -- 2CX-4 by the  other side 
>-- IMO, you have to judge that the change of call was  "condoned"; but 
>was it really condoned?
 
[Paul Lamford]
If the next person bids over it, then it has to be treated as condoned. The  
board could easily have been set aside and a referee telephoned during the 
break  for refreshments (I hope these were being provided) or at the end of the 
match.  Or even there and then in the middle of the auction.
 
To amend the result now would, in my view, be no different to a recent  
Crockfords match at a London Club, where a team, trailing by 64 IMPs at  half-time, 
wanted the first 16 boards replayed as they had not been hand-dealt  at the 
table, as required by the rules. Instead the club's duplimated boards had  been 
used. They were given short shrift by a referee, but were allowed to hand  
deal the remaining 16 boards.