Re: Drawing Trump

Eric Landau
[...]
> > 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.”
> 
> Until recently that footnote included the words “but not irrational”, but, for
> some reason I fail to understand, it was deemed to be too confusing and
> removed.  I’d vote to restore the old language that included it.

[Sven Pran] 
If the purpose of removing that clause from the footnote was to remove any "ceiling" then we might assume that instead of altering the footnote the laws would have been simplified by completely deleting the footnote and changing the word "normal" to "legal" wherever it appears in the affected laws.

As such change was not made to the laws I infer that the clause "but not irrational" (or words to similar effect) was considered superfluous so that "normal play" should still not include irrational or ridiculous plays (or whatever they would be called).
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