[blml] Quick Duck

[Wayne Burrows]

On 06/09/07, Gampas at aol.com <Gampas at aol.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

I can't see how L73D2 is entirely concerned with hesitancy when it
mentions "haste" and "hesitancy" equally.

Wayne