Re: Unable to ruff
Peter Smulders <[email protected]> Sun, 31 Mar 2019 00:01:44 +0100
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============2006227666== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------316D58ACB3F28E5DC2F93DB3" Content-Language: nl This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------316D58ACB3F28E5DC2F93DB3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In addition, dummy's remark "I can't ruff, we are playing No Trump!" is a violation of Law 43 A1c: "Dummy must not participate in the play, nor may he communicate anything about the play to declarer." Op 30-3-2019 om 18:22 schreef Robert Frick: > Yes. To say the obvious, declarer meant the queen of spades. Aren't there several ways to get to this ruling? I can't see any way to make the pointing to the queen of spades go away. > > Actually, if declared points at the queen of spades and says "queen of hearts", I will accept that as a call for the queen of spades even if the queen of hearts is in dummy. To me, there is something very primitive about pointing. > > > On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 09:20:09 -0400, Volker Walther <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Playing NT, declarer leads a small diamond towards dummy, who has no >> diamonds. LHO follows suit. Declarer says "ruff, please", pointing to >> the queen of spades. >> >> Dummy: I can't ruff, we are playing No Trump! >> >> Is the Queen played? >> > _______________________________________________ > Blml mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rtflb.org/mailman/listinfo/blml > --------------316D58ACB3F28E5DC2F93DB3 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <p>In addition, dummy's remark "I can't ruff, we are playing No Trump!" is a violation of Law 43 A1c:</p> <p>"<span style="left: 203.633px; top: 310.708px; font-size: 18.3px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.934365);">Dummy must not participate in the play, nor may he communicate anything about the </span><span style="left: 203.633px; top: 333.108px; font-size: 18.3px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.936146);">play to declarer."</span></p> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Op 30-3-2019 om 18:22 schreef Robert Frick:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:op.zzg6jaa1bd67ou@desktop-5mri16c"> <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Yes. To say the obvious, declarer meant the queen of spades. Aren't there several ways to get to this ruling? I can't see any way to make the pointing to the queen of spades go away. Actually, if declared points at the queen of spades and says "queen of hearts", I will accept that as a call for the queen of spades even if the queen of hearts is in dummy. To me, there is something very primitive about pointing. On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 09:20:09 -0400, Volker Walther <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:[email protected]"><[email protected]></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Playing NT, declarer leads a small diamond towards dummy, who has no diamonds. LHO follows suit. Declarer says "ruff, please", pointing to the queen of spades. Dummy: I can't ruff, we are playing No Trump! Is the Queen played? </pre> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">_______________________________________________ Blml mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.rtflb.org/mailman/listinfo/blml">http://lists.rtflb.org/mailman/listinfo/blml</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html> --------------316D58ACB3F28E5DC2F93DB3-- --===============2006227666== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Blml mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rtflb.org/mailman/listinfo/blml --===============2006227666==--