[blml] uninteresting question - HELP!

[Alain Gottcheiner]

At 03:32 26/05/2007 -0400, Ed Reppert wrote:

>That last law says the card must be played, not that it is played. So
>it isn't played. So 63A1 doesn't apply, and 62 does.

Even more so : "must be played", as an action, is placed in the future of 
another, related, action (symmetrical to a Present-Perfect ; linguists call 
this an Inceptive). This perforce means it hasn't been played yet.

>West must
>correct his revoke. Then he must play the card he was waving around
>to the current trick.

Nope. He must play C4, as it has become a penalty card at the moment the 
revoke was established. The C8 wans't played as "failure to play a penalty 
card" because the "must be played" bit is second to penalty-card laws (you 
may not force a player to act contrary to any law). But you might rule the 
C8 is a penalty card itself thereafter.


Best regards


    Alain