[blml] 2007 Laws - ACBL's options.

[Adam Wildavsky]

On Jan 17, 2008 5:58 PM, John Probst <john at asimere.com> wrote:

> > I reach a slam and take 12 tricks. Why will you award me -50? Because my
> > opponents defended poorly? Because they were unlikely to do so? Suppose
> I
> > had played well to score 12 tricks. That's certainly unlikely! Suppose I
> > make 12 tricks through guessing a 2-way finesse. Will you rule that,
> after
> > all, I might have misguessed? Suppose I make 12 tricks by taking a
> one-way
> > finesse. Will I get -50 since the king might, after all, have been
> > offside?
> >
> > Once we allow for things to have happened differently than they did,
> other
> > than the illegal call itself, where do we stop?
>
> "In 6 I have to take a finesse for just made or two off, so I take the
> finesse. In 5 I can establish 11 tricks by brute force"


How is this relevant? I was in slam and I took 12 tricks. Do you propose
adjusting my score to -50 because I would have played differently has we
stopped at the five level? +450 instead of +480 I would understand --
perhaps that's what you're suggesting.

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Adam Wildavsky  <adam at tameware.com>  www.tameware.com
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