[blml] Wrong direction

[Gampas at aol.com]

>In a message dated 05/11/2007 08:27:49 GMT Standard Time,  john at asimere.com 
writes:
Team  play
EW/W
K
AJ9762
KT2
J62
T8642                                 AQ
T85                                     Q3
------                                    J86543
KQT53                                 A84
J9753
K4
AQ97
97

At one table they put the board in the wrong direction and looked at  the 
cards. This board had been played in the other room. 3DX down 4 by East.  
1100

Normal results are 3-4H down 2-3 by North.

How do you  solve this problem? Kindly refer to used Law or other regulation.<
 
This happened recently in the Lederer, in England, and I think the relevant  
part of the White Book (12.6, p31) is this:
 
"If team A gets a good or lucky board against team B and, because of an  
infraction by team B, the board cannot be played at the second table, then the  
non-offenders are entitled to an assigned adjusted score under Law 72B1 – see  
#72.1.
 
However, from the statement by Torsten in the original posting, "they put  
the board in the wrong direction". Presumably this means both pairs at the  
second table misboarded it, and therefore there were no "non-offenders".  The EBU 
confirmed this interpretation at the time, and a substitute board needs  to be 
played (if time allows). John Probst would be right if the offenders were  
the team getting the bad result in the other room. If neither pair (or both  
pairs, as here) is to blame:
 
"However, if team A gets a good or lucky board against team B and, because  
of an outside influence or an unlucky event not caused by team B, the board  
cannot be played at the second table, then team A get no benefit from their good 
 or lucky result
since team B have committed no infraction. This is called  "rub-of-the-green".
 
This does not defend against the Turner Coup (named after the former  
director of the CIA who was a keen bridge player), where one of the team getting  a 
bad result uses slight of hand to rotate the wallet by 90 degrees when  putting 
back his cards before the three other hands are replaced in room 1.  The 
director assumes when he gets a result in board 2 that it must have been  
misboarded by both pairs on the second occasion!
 
Paul