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With 2 tricks to go, playing 4 hearts, declarer holds ♥9 and ♣10 both are top tricks a this moment.
an opponent is on lead and has ♠Q and ♥8
instead of leading ♠Q wich is good defender pulls ♥8 and plays, but at the same time declarer claims (unaware of a trump left it seemed, but didn't say anything).
How many tricks for each side?
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Posted 2010-December-17, 10:21
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Posted 2010-December-17, 11:21
The answer is not clear in law.
I would rule as follows: simultaneous calls or plays are resolved so that the legal action is deemed to have happened first; the sequence lead-then-claim is legal, the sequence claim-then-lead is not ("play ceases", Law 68D); so I would rule the lead is deemed to have happened first. Declarer makes both tricks: only legal play of the remaining cards.
I would rule as follows: simultaneous calls or plays are resolved so that the legal action is deemed to have happened first; the sequence lead-then-claim is legal, the sequence claim-then-lead is not ("play ceases", Law 68D); so I would rule the lead is deemed to have happened first. Declarer makes both tricks: only legal play of the remaining cards.
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