Re: Incompletely designated ruff

On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 19:06:32 -0400, Volker Walther <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Hermann, we are in different cases here:
>
> You: "As I understand the case, it is clear that declarer did not notice
> the S5...."
> I said "Unless there is some evidence that declarer did not realize the
> S5..."
>
> If we positively know, that declarer did not realize the S5 ,he  lives
> in a world, where S4 is an winning card. So we have no need do make any
> distinction between "win" or"spade" or similar incomplete commands that
> indicate a spade play. The intention of a player who did not realize  S5
> is incontrovertible: he called for the lowest spade.
>
> But I could not find any evidence in Davids mail that indicated whether
> or not declarer had realized that that LHO ruffed with S5.

Here, no one looking at the S5 would say "ruff" with J4 in dummy.
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