[blml] more-than-complete claim [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Alain Gottcheiner]

Harald Skjæran a écrit :
>
> There's a difference between a player claiming all the tricks and a
> player conceding a trick here. The first player obviously knows that
> the king is a singleton (he has counted his and dummys cards and know
> they add up to 12), the player conceding a trick has demonstrated that
> he believes LHO holds a winner, thus 'finessing' is not neither
> irrational nor abnormal for him.
>
>   
AG : this is just one other occurrence of taking into account strong 
evidence of the player's state of mind, something that would be rejected 
by some contributors. But apparently jurisprudence asks us to do so.
For example, it has been said before that, if a declarer, handling a 
trump suit of AQxxx / Kxx, pulls two rounds (everybody following), says 
'aha' and claims wthout saying loudly 'I pull the last one', he is 
deemed to know there is a trump out, but if he pulls those two rounds, 
handles another suit then claims without saying 'I pull the trump', he's 
deemed to have forgotten it.
IMHO, the same principle is at work in  the distinction Harald makes, 
and he's right to make it.

Best regards

    Alain