[blml] claim

[Sven Pran]

> On Behalf Of Eric Landau
...........
> > If he (with more than one trick left to play) says just "one
> > trick to me" that is also an attempt to claim one trick and to
> > concede the rest.
> 
> False.

>From Law 68B1: "a claim of some number of tricks is a concession of the
remainder, if any."

> 
> The difference is that in the first case the concession occurred
> because he has made "a statement to the effect that [he] will lose a
> specific number of tricks".  In the second case the concession
> occurred because he has made "a claim of some number of tricks".  If
> the latter language did not appear in TFLB, we would have a
> concession in the first case only, but not in the second.

The difference is immaterial. We do have a concession in both cases.

Sven