Re: How many questions about an opening bid before it's UI?

On Apr 23, 6:53 pm, David Stevenson <brid...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Michael Angelo Ravera wrote
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> >On Apr 23, 2:02 pm, Peter Smulders <d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> Michael Angelo Ravera <marav...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> > My partner ends up declaring (3NT, I believe). RHO leads a club and
I
> >> > call the TD. When she arrived, I explained that the "lead may have
> >> > been 'inspired' [demonstrably suggested] by unauthorized
information".
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> >> Simple. Your calling the TD is a violation of Law 43A1: Unless
attention has
> >> been drawn to an irregularity by another player, dummy should not
initiate a
> >> call for the Director during play.
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> >> The TD should have left the table without doing anything.
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> >I wasn't dummy yet! I still had all 13 cards in my hand when I called
> >the director. It is possible that director could have backed up the
> >club lead or ruled a lead out of turn.
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>    You became dummy when the opening lead was faced - and before it was
> faced how did you know it was a club?
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> Adam Beneschan wrote
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> >Also, once the opening lead is faced, the director cannot "back up"
> >the lead.  If the opening lead has been made face-down, and it turns
> >out that one of the last couple calls has been based on
> >misinformation, the director can cancel the last call or two and the
> >auction would be reopened.  But after the opening lead has been faced,
> >this is no longer possible, and if there was misinformation the only
> >remedy is to play it out and possibly award an adjusted score.
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>     Not relevant to this situation, but I believe your general comment
to
> be untrue.  After the opening lead is faced, it could be withdrawn if
> the lead was affected by MI, but only if this was discovered before the
> dummy was faced.

My sloppiness, I guess.  I was only thinking about situations where a
*call* was based on misinformation; and once the opening lead has been
faced, it's too late to allow the lead to be withdrawn and one or more
calls cancelled.  But yes, the lead itself can be changed if based on
MI.  (47E2(a) for anyone who wants to look it up.)

                               -- Adam