[blml] This week's defender play.

[Robin Barker]

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From: blml-bounces at amsterdamned.org
[mailto:blml-bounces at amsterdamned.org]On Behalf Of Grattan Endicott
Sent: 01 February 2007 10:47
To: blml at rtflb.org
Subject: [blml] This week's defender play.



from Grattan Endicott
grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk
[also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
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"They who sin with caution,
                         whilst concealed,
 Grow impudently careless,
                          when revealed."
                 ~ Susannah Centlivre.
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+=+ Perhaps, gentle reader, you would like to
share in the following rarity. A report states:

"Spades are trumps. Mid-way through the play
declarer led a high-ish heart from his hand.  LHO
can ruff it if we wishes; this will be the correct
thing to do if the heart is a winner, but the wrong
thing to do if it is a loser. It is less than clear to
LHO whether or not the heart is good. Whilst
he's thinking, RHO prematurely plays a higher
heart (i.e. a heart winner). So, LHO now knows
not to ruff. Law 57A doesn't help declarer one
bit - he'd like to force LHO to ruff, but 57A
doesn't give him that option."

Various suggested rulings surround application of
Laws 12B, 72B1, 12A1.  I have commented
"Any card that is played and then becomes
a penalty card is seemingly a withdrawn card?
It appears to me that penalty cards of this genre
are perhaps subject to Law 16C."

                                 ~ Grattan ~   +==
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There has previously been discussion that Law 47B allows/requires the withdrawal of card played out of turn "A played card may be withdrawn to correct an illegal or simultaneous play".

So L57A says the high heart is a penalty card, L47B says it is withdrawn (while the next two players in rotation play), L16C says withdrawn actions are unauthorised to OS, from the thinking ruffing and not ruffing are logical alternatives, and ruffing is the one not suggested by the high heart.

Robin

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