[blml] Correction of a revoke

[Jerry Fusselman]

On Jan 2, 2008 2:11 PM,  <Gampas at aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 02/01/2008 19:26:58 GMT Standard Time,
> ereppert at rochester.rr.com writes:
>
> > Your logic seems to imply that
> > paying sufficient attention  to the game requires seeing the opponent's
> > hands every time one  claims.
>
> I think his logic implies that paying sufficient attention to  the
> game means that one will know what's in opponents' hands when  one
> claims. A supposition that is probably true at expert level,  and
> nowhere close to true at the level at which I play. :-)
>
> [paul lamford] Whether you notice that an opponent has revoked may be
> unrelated to whether you paid attention or not. For example, you play 6NT  by South
> on the following hands on the lead of the QS.
>
> S AK5
> H AQ9
> D AK
> C AQJ32
>
> S 432
> H JT3
> D QJ
> C KT987
>
> You win the lead and cross to the ten of clubs on which West shows out. You
> take the heart finesse which loses and you say: One down, I will not insult
> you  by playing them out, a spade to you. At half-time you notice that West did
> have  a club. It is now too late to do anything about it, but you have not
> been  inattentive in any way.
>

Nice example, Paul.  That is indeed exactly what Konrad and I were
thinking of.  Konrad just gave a similar example, where his team lost
about 30 IMPs.  I have to agree with Konrad 100% on his points.

Jerry Fusselman