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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).
In a recent bridge game, the contract was 2C doubled. The contracting team discovered, at a point in the game after a trick had been played that the opposing team had reneged. They assert that there should be a two trick penalty, and that those two tricks should be scored below the line.
Failing to follow suit is called a "revoke" or "renege" when that person subsequently plays a card from that suit (assuming that the mistake was not discovered and corrected in time). The governing law is the 2017 amendment (to the earlier 2007 version) of Law 64 of the ACBL. The penalty is normally one trick.
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.
Laws of duplicate contract bridge are fairly easily to find online. You aren't even close to correct. There are basically two cases: 1. Revoke caught before *established*. A revoke is established when either partner of the offending side plays to the next trick. Before this, you can speak up and say "I failed to follow suit".
The easiest example of the exceptional case would be if the revoke allowed defender to a NT contract access to a running suit not otherwise with an entry, causing a makeable contract to be set more than one trick.
Duplicate Bridge were published in 1928 and there have been successive revisions in 1933, 1935, 1943, 1949, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1997, and 2007. Through the 1930’s the Laws were promulgated by the Portland Club of London and the Whist Club of New York. From the 1940’s onwards, the American Contract Bridge League Laws Commission replaced the
