[blml] claim

[Herman De Wael]

Eitan Levy wrote:
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> 
> On 12/12/07, *Herman De Wael* <hermandw at skynet.be 
> <mailto:hermandw at skynet.be>> wrote:
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>     This ruling can go either way, and I'd like to know which way we're
>     all going to rule this. We really ought to have some guidance from the
>     WBF on this one.
> 
>     So, may I ask the WBF to give us guidance on this stripped case:
> 
>  
> New 2008 Law 70E2 empowers the regulating authority to regulate on this 
> issue. If there is a clear directive from the local regulating authority 
> then at least the rulings will be consistent. For better or for worse, 
> my NBO has determined that (if no contrary statement is made) in leading 
> (including trumps), the highest is deemed played; in trumping anotherit 
> has greatly reduced the amount of arguing and dissension regarding claims.
> A Reg Auth could also add that in claimimg to win a trick led by another 
> player, the lowest card (or the highest) is deemed to be played.
> In the absence of WBF guidance, if regulating authorities add 
> regulations such as or similar to these then the endless and pointless 
> discussions that Herman so rightly protests would be replaced by 
> consistent rulings within the NBO concerned.
>  

I agree that it is better this way, but why should we impose on all 
150 NBO's the task of spelling this out? If the WBF can do it for 
them? It seems to me that if a particular NBO wants to make changes to 
the WBF position, it can be allowed to do so. Then at least, they can 
have a good answer to the question "why is that ruling different in 
Israel from Belgium" - "because we want it that way". Now the answer 
would be - "we don't know, they decided it thus, we did it this way".

Yet again, the WBF has given NBO's an option they don't really want or 
need, and as a consequence, rulings will differ between countries for 
no good reason.



> Eitan Levy
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