Drawing Trump

Yuge! 30 Years of Doonesbury on Trump is a retrospective collection of
comic strips by Garry Trudeau featuring The Donald. In an interview with
the New York Times the author described the Republican presidential
candidate as "the gold standard for big, honking hubris".

Recently my RHO declarer claimed, on the basis of cashing side-suit winners
in dummy, then having trumps in hand. Unfortunately for declarer my pard
still held an undrawn trump. Unfortunately for our side pard had to follow
to dummy's winners, so the only way our side could get a bonus trump trick
would be either if declarer chose to under-ruff, or if declarer chose to
lead trumps from bottom-up instead of top-down.

So the Director ruled under Law 70C3 that the defence could not score its
trump with any "normal" play. The footnote defining "normal" states:

"For the purposes of Laws 70 and 71, 'normal' includes play that would be
careless or inferior for the class of player involved."

My pedantic objection to this footnote is that it lacks a ceiling. Thus my
suggested 2017 revision is:

"For the purposes of Laws 70 and 71, 'normal' includes play that would be
careless or inferior (but not ridiculous) for the class of player involved."

Best wishes,

Richard Hills

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