[blml] About restoring equity

[Gampas at aol.com]

In a message dated 07/11/2007 11:33:10 GMT Standard Time,  svenpran at online.no 
writes:

>I wonder how the red suits should be distributed since West made  an
>>invitational lead in Clubs instead of leading a Heart or a Diamond  and it
apparently never occurred to East to attack in either red  suit?

>Incidentally, I would also like to see a reasonably sane  auction for South
>to end up as declarer in 1NT?
 
On the second point, if you reverse the order of suits in both hands, so  
that North has C AQJ10xx instead of spades, then a reasonable auction might be  
1NT (11-13) All Pass. As the cards are, Two Spades is the probable contract, it 
 is agreed. But that is not relevant to the point under discussion, and is a 
red  (or black in this case) herring.
 
When restoring equity for the revoke where the normal penalty is not  enough, 
it is assumed that the defence would continue clubs rather than switch  to a 
red suit. Without Smith Peters it would not be clear to switch, and the  
benefit of the doubt is given to the non-offender. So the adjustment is to 1NT  =, 
making 5 spades and 2 clubs. The other case is indeed 1NT + 2.