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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).
Now the rules have been changed to allow defenders to ask the same question, so we should be able to reach a game of revoke-less bridge! I advise all players to get into the habit of asking the above question: 'Having none, partner?' every time partner fails to follow suit (for the first time in a suit). The penalty for a revoke can be quite ...
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".
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
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.
Contract bridge is a four-handed trick-taking card game played with a stan-dard 52-card deck between two cooperative partnerships, each consisting of two players who sit opposite one and other. The goal of the game is sim-ple: win as many tricks for your side as possible in each hand. There are
Expert advice, rules and stories about contract bridge by renowned expert Rhoda Walsh.
