[blml] lead penalties [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Alain Gottcheiner]

At 08:17 21/09/2007 +1000, richard.hills at immi.gov.au wrote:


>There is more than one way to skin a cat.  Declarer uses Law
>26 to directly forbid West from leading a diamond.  Then
>West's alternative lead of a club is indirectly forbidden by
>Law 16C2:
>
>"For the offending side, information arising from its own
>withdrawn action and from withdrawn actions of the non-
>offending side is unauthorised. A player of the offending
>side may not choose from among logical alternative actions
>one that could demonstrably have been suggested over another
>by the unauthorised information."

AG : looks strange to me. If this was enough to avoid a lead in a suit 
shown, L26 would be useless, as any case of withdrawn insufficient call 
could be covered by L16C.

Best regards

      Alain


>What's the problem?
>
>Indeed, given the comprehensive scope of Law 16C2, it seems
>to me that Law 26 no longer has any justification for its
>existence, so in 2017 Law 26 might as well be abolished.
>
>
>Best wishes
>
>Richard James Hills, amicus curiae
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