[bluejak]

Last one tonight.

Scoring: Siwss Pairs

Contract:
4♥ dbld by West
Play:
N: ♦5 2 T K
W: ♣2 3 9 T
S: ♣A 8 5 ♥2
E: ♥3 4 K J
W: ♥T ♠2 ♥5 Q
S: ♥A ♣J 7 ♥6

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Having failed to play his trump under the ace, declarer established the diamonds, reaching them with his good trump, and discarded dummy's spades. He lost a club, two hearts and a diamond for one off. The revoke penalty made this two off.

N/S asked the TD to look to see if they might get more under Law 64C.

[barmar]

I don't think so. All declarer has to do is duck a ♦ to North and they're established, so he loses 1♦, 2♥, and 1♣. If North refuses to take the ♦Q, he loses 2♥, 2♠, 1♣. Neither case is down more than 2.

[Winstonm]

A day in the life?

I read the rules today, oh boy,

[McBruce]

It's tempting to award 2H 2S 1D and 1C to N-S, but I see no road to that result.

[McBruce]

BTW, this is some event David is reporting from: 440 pairs in a single event over four sessions, 14 matches of 9 boards (I think). Wow.

[helene_t]

I like the way you present the play diagram, David. I think it's the first time I have been able to read a play diagram without getting dizzy

[bluejak]

To be honest, I am never quite sure of the best way to do play diagrams. One way is to always do W N E S and underline the winner: or perhaps show who leads as I have done, but put W N E S: or as I have done here. I thought I would try this way.

[Fluffy]

best way for a play diagram is to do what you did, but in the end also put a final diagram with the state of all cards at that point. This is a lot of work and someone is gonan complain because ♣5 was suposed to be played before and not the 7.

[awm]

It does seem pretty routine for declarer to go at most two down by ducking a diamond to north. Since this is the result after the revoke penalty I don't see any reason to adjust further.

[MFA]

awm, on Aug 16 2009, 12:04 AM, said:

It does seem pretty routine for declarer to go at most two down by ducking a diamond to north. Since this is the result after the revoke penalty I don't see any reason to adjust further.

I agree.

[bluejak]

The TD who made the decision and I were not entirely convinced that West was the sort of player who would find the duck of a diamond obvious, even if it seems obvious enough on paper. At the table the diamonds apparently were established in the normal way - yes, we know that was with a guaranteed entry.

Rightly or wrongly, the TD decided she would not play the diamonds correctly 100% of the time, so she gave a weighted score by which the defenders got some percentage of another trick.