CHAPTER VI
The Play ![polish version](../poland.gif)
PART V
CLAIMS AND CONCESSIONS
LAW 68
- CLAIM OR CONCESSION OF TRICKS ![polish version](../poland.gif)
For a statement or action to constitute a claim or concession of tricks
under these Laws, it must refer to tricks other than one currently in progress
. If it does refer to subsequent tricks:
- A. Claim Defined
- Any statement to the effect that a contestant will win a specific number
of tricks is a claim of those tricks. A contestant also claims when he
suggests that play be curtailed, or when he shows his cards (unless he
demonstrably did not intend to claim).
- B. Concession Defined
- Any statement to the effect that a contestant will lose a specific
number of tricks is a concession of those tricks; a claim of some number
of tricks is a concession of the remainder, if any. A player concedes all
the remaining tricks when he abandons his hand. Regardless of the foregoing,
if a defender attempts to concede one or more tricks and his partner immediately
objects, no concession has occurred; Law 16,
Unauthorised Information, may apply, so the Director should be summoned
forthwith.
- C. Clarification Required for Claim
- A claim should be accompanied at once by a statement of clarification
as to the order in which cards will be played, the line of play or defence
through which the claimer proposes to win the tricks claimed.
- D. Play Ceases
- After any claim or concession, play ceases. All play subsequent to
a claim or concession shall be voided by the Director. If the claim or
concession is acquiesced in, Law 69
applies; if it is disputed by any player (dummy included), the Director
must be summoned immediately to apply Law 70
or Law 71, and no action may be taken
pending the Director's arrival.
If the statement or action pertains only
to the winning or losing of an uncompleted trick currently in progress,
play proceeds regularly; cards exposed or revealed by a defender do not
become penalty cards, but Law 16, Unauthorised
Information, may apply, and see Law 57A,
Premature Play.
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1997