Re: OLOOT, asked first
Matthias Berghaus <[email protected]>
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Am 10.06.2016 um 09:40 schrieb Herman De Wael: > Well, I can see a problem. So can I, but other problems... > Imagine my LH opponent, having just become > presumed declarer, says to me "your lead". I know it's my partner's > lead, but I say nothing, bang down the first card that comes to hand and > wait for him to start putting down dummy, then call director and ask to > be allowed to play double dummy. Let us put aside, for the sake of the argument, that probably one of the two others would object strongly. Let us say the mass suggestion works and the others believe my LHO. Still, I know better. So I would have to ignore - on purpose, with malice aforethought, so to speak - the fact that it is _not_ , in fact, my lead, _then_ call the TD and try to sell him that just after making my "lead" I realized that it was not my lead after all. Sure. Got any bridges to sell? Herman, if someone is willing to ignore facts, laws, you name it, then we have a problem, as we would with any other cheat. The laws are (as you know full well) not designed primarily to handle cheaters, but to take care of inadvertant things. Imagine my LHO, having just become presumed declarer, says to me "your lead". He has no stop in a suit of your choice, but partner may, and he does not want a lead through that presumed holding. Now this is no better than what "your" cheat did, but if the law would let him accept the lead (after first lying about whose lead it is...) he would be far more likely to get away with it, since - if no one objects to his statement - no TD would show up at the table. And even if he did, what now? If we change 47E1, then the play period has begun, so partner`s holding _is_ protected, and the TD would be hard pressed to find a law that let`s him give another score. I would like to keep 47E1 as it is.... > Seems a bit harsh on the innocent small > mistake made by my opponent. Mistakes come in different sizes? And that "mistake " may well not be so innocent.... I find it just harsh enough to protect people from the ploy I described above. I would prefer drawing and quartering, but could settle for having the defenders play double dummy. Best regards Matthias > Herman. > _______________________________________________ > Blml mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rtflb.org/mailman/listinfo/blml _______________________________________________ Blml mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rtflb.org/mailman/listinfo/blml