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Alcatraz coup

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The most relevant change is Law 16C2 (Law 16D2 in the 2007 Laws Of Duplicate Bridge), which defines information gained from either side's legal withdrawal of a card as unauthorized for the offending side. (Note: although the revoking side may correct its revoke, a revoke has nevertheless occurred and
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an "offending side.") It also states that "A player of the offending side may not choose from among logical alternative actions one that could demonstrably have been suggested over another by the unauthorized information." In other words, even if the coup is executed inadvertently, the declarer may
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According to Morehead's article, "The laws committees have considered the Alcatraz Coup too unusual a case to be dealt with specifically, but it is no less typical of rare irregularities that committees must consider when a new code of laws is being prepared." However, since 1973 when that article
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by declarer, causing the next player to reveal whether he holds the key card whose location is sought. The declarer then corrects the revoke (which is allowed without penalty if done soon enough) and the defender may change his play, but declarer now knows about the key card and can choose how to
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Also, a deliberate infraction of the Laws is normally viewed as a serious violation of the Proprieties; that exposes deliberate attempters of the Coup to further sanctions.
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Presumably, the idea behind the name is that any bridge player attempting the "coup" should be locked up in a maximum security facility. According to a 1961 article by
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not take advantage of knowing the position of the queen; if he does so, the tournament director may adjust the result accordingly.
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3. South now perpetrates the Alcatraz Coup by discarding from a different suit, thus committing a revoke. Then:
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The classic hand for the Alcatraz Coup, which was not then so called, was the following one adduced in 1947 by
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South wants three tricks from clubs but the opponents have been successful in concealing the location of the
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If West follows suit with a small card, South corrects his revoke by replacing his discard with the
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of Dallas, who was trying to persuade the laws committees to change the revoke law...
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Q, of course, but with the position exposed South confidently finesses West for the
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Kit Woolsey, "The Alcatraz Coup", The Bridge World, vol. 44 No. 4, January 1973.
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Thus, the name originates some time between 1947 and 1961. In a 1973 article in
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J, South corrects his revoke by replacing his discard with the
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is an illegal method of learning about the opponents' cards in
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