[blml] Wrong direction

[gesta at tiscali.co.uk]

Grattan Endicott<gesta at tiscali.co.uk
[following address discontinued:
grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk]
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Torsten Åstrand" <torsten.astrand at telia.com>
To: "Bridge Laws Mailing List" <blml at amsterdamned.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] Wrong direction



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Willner" <swillner at nhcc.net>
To: <blml at rtflb.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 3:02 AM
Subject: Re: [blml] Wrong direction


> From: Torsten Ã…strand <torsten.astrand at telia.com>
> In Sweden is North responsible for the boards. I.e. placed and played
> correctly.

You still haven't made it clear exactly what happened.  I gather:
1. EW at Table 1 got a horrible result.
2. Teammate N at Table 2 rotated the board.  Was it rotated 90 degrees
or 180?  If the latter, why not let the board be played?

If the rotation was 90 degrees, the normal thing would be to give NS at
table 2 avg-, EW avg+, and disregard the result at Table 1.  (In most
jurisdictions, the NS and EW pairs are equally responsible for the
correct board position, so the board would either be replaced with a
substitute or scored avg for both sides.)  However, if and only if there
is some way T2 N "could have known" about the EW result at the other
table, you use L72B1 and give an _assigned_ adjusted score at T2.

Rotated 90 degrees correct. In Sweden is North responsible for the boards.
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+=+ I am puzzled that Torsten appears to be saying that in Sweden
they set aside Law 7D. Steve appears to have the right approach here.
Where was the match played? Who carried the boards? What were
the possibilities of communication? These are the kinds of questions
to be answered when considering Law 72B1.
                                                       ~ Grattan ~   +=+