[blml] re claim

[David Burn]

[ER]

One view is that the concession, and if it exists the accompanying claim,
explicit or implicit, is voided, and play continues, with the erstwhile
claimant being allowed to make any play he wishes, regardless whether it is
consistent with his now voided line of play statement. The other side holds
that in such situations, the claim, if it exists, still holds, and while
play continues, the TD must supervise it, and claimant must be held to his
accompanying line of play statement (assuming he made one).

[DALB]

I had thought that the question (or one of the questions) was whether or not
play should continue at all. If West says "I get two clubs and you get the
rest", and East objects, then West's concession is cancelled, but there
seems to me to have been some debate about whether his claim is also
cancelled. If it isn't, then play cannot continue, because play ceases after
a claim.

Perhaps in 2017 the rules will say:

When a defender concedes one or more tricks, and his partner immediately
objects, play continues. Otherwise...

David Burn
London, England