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Laws of Duplicate Bridge 2017 NORTH AMERICAN EDITION The 2017 Laws were drafted by the World Bridge Federation Laws Committee with input from the American Contract Bridge League Laws Commission, other National Bridge Organizations, and the Bridge-playing public. This version of the Laws was approved by the ACBL Board of
Revoke (Renege) - A failure to follow to the suit lead when able to do so constitutes a revoke. The declarer may ask a defender who has failed to follow suit whether he has a card of the suit led (but a claim of revoke does not automatically warrant inspection of quitted tricks - see Law 66C).
one-trick penalty. The revoke law itself has been simplified*: if the offender does not win the revoke trick (himself) then there is only a one trick penalty, whilst if he does win the revoke trick the penalty would be two tricks (although only tricks won on and after the revoke.
the American Contract Bridge League Laws Commission replaced the Whist Club, while the British Bridge League and the European Bridge League supplemented the Portland
European Bridge League 9th Main Tournament Directors Course Bad Honnef 2013 L61B Inquiring about a revoke: Declarer may ask the opponents but should he ever do so? Let us start to say that there is no need at all to draw attention to a revoke. Even if a player is absolutely sure that an opponent
The rules have been changed in 2017 to decrease the severity of penalty for an insufficient bid or call out of rotation by allowing the use of a Comparable Call.
2008 LAWS OF DUPLICATE BRIDGE The Laws are designed to define correct proce-dure and to provide an adequate remedy when there is a departure from correct procedure. They are pri-marily designed not as punishment for irregularities but rather for the rectification of situations where non-offenders may otherwise be damaged. Players
