[blml] Quick Duck

[Gampas at aol.com]

I am not sure exactly what was intended by "Quick duck" but it  seems
to me that an "in tempo duck" is ok but a "quick duck" could  be
construed as trying to deceive the opponents by varying your  tempo.

"A player may not attempt to mislead an opponent by means of  remark or
gesture, through the haste or hesitancy of a call or play (as  in
hesitating before playing a singleton), or by the manner in which  the
call or play is made." L73D2
 
         K32
QJxx
xxx
xxx
xx              87
T9xxx         Kxx
Qxx            KJTx
KJx            QTxx
AQJT94
A
Axx
Axx
 
Say the auction is 1S-2S-4S. South, a quick analyst, realising he does  not 
have an entry to take the ruffing heart finesse and enjoy it, plays the QH  on 
the lead of the TH at the speed of light (well, maybe, just sound). On  the 
previous board we will say he took 10 seconds after the dummy went down to  play 
at trick one. East instinctively covers and then argues he was  deceived by 
the speed of South's play. I would be surprised if any TD adjusted,  and the 
fact that East's play was misere (there can be no reason on the auction  for 
West to underlead a putative AH) must be relevant. I  think that L73D2 is almost 
entirely concerned with hesitancy (for example the  well-known KJ10x opposite 
A9xx situations). I cannot think of any situations  where adjustments have 
been made for haste in the play. 
 
Paul