[blml] Wrong direction

[Gampas at aol.com]

I will try again with typos and formatting corrected!:
 
>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 sleight 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 room 2 that it must have been   
misboarded by both pairs on the second occasion!
 
Paul