[blml] claim

[Sven Pran]

On Behalf Of koen
(Reformatted to plain text and kept the essentials of OP):
With only four cards left in a NT contract North (Declarer) has played a
small club from Jxxx. Dummy is at this point indifferent with only small
cards and no clubs.
East with two small hearts and C:QT shows his cards and says "Two clubs for
me and the rest for you"
West immediately protests because he still has Heart Ace and 3 free diamonds
(all higher diamonds are gone).

The applicable Law is 68B:

Any statement to the effect that a contestant will lose a specific number of
tricks is a concession of those tricks; a claim of some number of tricks is
a concession of the remainder, if any. A player concedes all the remaining
tricks when he abandons his hand. Regardless of the foregoing, if a defender
attempts to concede one or more tricks and his partner immediately objects,
no concession has occurred; Law 16, Unauthorized Information, may apply, so
the Director should be summoned forthwith.

And to clarify the situation we have a minute from WBFLC (Paris 2001):

10   It was agreed that when a concession is made by a defender of a number
of tricks, thereby claiming the complement of the remaining tricks, if the
defender's partner immediately objects to the concession, under Law 68B  no
concession has occurred and by the same token neither has any claim been
made. After the Director has been summoned play continues and Law 16 may
apply.


Consequently no concession has occurred nor has any claim been made, and
play shall continue with due consideration to Law 16.

>From the spoken statement by East with his attempt to claim we must rule
that he plays the CT and CQ in that order after which the last two tricks
cannot be lost for the defense by any legal play.

It must be considered irrational for West to discard his AH on any of these
clubs, but even if he does so the two remaining hearts in East will then
take the last two tricks.

East/West must be awarded all four remaining tricks.

Regards Sven