Margarine

Matchpoint pairs
Dlr: East
Vul: Both

In an uncontested auction South opens 1D, North responds 1S, and now South
rebids 5H.

You, North, hold:

AQT94
94
K9
AT82

What call do you make?

Best wishes,

Richard Hills

On Wednesday, July 20, 2016, Richard Hills <[email protected]
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote:

> Tonight and for the next three Tuesday evenings the Canberra Bridge Club
> is holding a Butler pairs tournament. The format is a Mitchell movement,
> with three 9-board matches per session. I had arranged to play with Hashmat
> Ali in this event, but a few days before its start Hashmat informed me that
> he had the dreaded lurgy. Therefore I had to organise a substitute for the
> first session.
>
> This I did, choosing a forgetful friend. The friend did not forget to turn
> up. Instead, shortly before the starting time the friend was told  by
> another player that they had entered the tournament, so the fair-weather
> substitute promptly decamped.
>
> Thus I had to get a last-minute second substitute. The new substitute
> understandably arrived three boards late. But both he and I are very quick
> players, so we finished the first 9-board match with time to spare.
>
> Suppose, however, that we had completed only eight boards. Should we have
> been awarded Average Minus for the board that we missed, because we were
> "directly at fault" (Law 12C2)? In my opinion, no. The person directly at
> fault was the forgetful "first substitute", and he was now part of a rival
> contestant.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Richard Hills
>

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