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- From: hampton@ais.org (Kevin Podsiadlik)
- Subject: Is this an infraction?
- Message-ID: <C1C78v.KAu@ais.org>
- Organization: UMCC
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:36:29 GMT
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- A hypothetical question on the Laws:
-
- After West makes the opening lead to a hand, and while declarer is studying
- the dummy, East notices something very wrong. Dummy's diamond holding
- appears to include the ace, and yet East is staring at the ace of diamonds
- in his own hand. "Wait a minute," says East, who then shuffles through
- dummy's diamonds to reveal that the ace among them is in fact the ace of
- HEARTS. (The suit of the card was completely hidden from view, so that
- only the red "A" was visible. Dummy was unavailable for comment after
- the hand.)
-
- West now knows with virtual certainty that East has the ace of diamonds.
- When South accuses East of transmitting unauthorized information, East
- protests that he was making what he thought was an innocuous, even
- chivalrous, effort to rectify an error on dummy's part.
-
- Were East actions a violation of the Law?
-
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