Score not agreed
In a club duplicate, a board was played and a result in a spade contract was entered into the Bridgemate by N and agreed by E/W.
Subsequently N/S said the contract was actually 3NT. E/W agree that the contract was 3NT but the pairs disagree on how many overtricks were made. Different results are possible depending on whether a somewhat risky finesse is attempted.
It is within the correction period which as I understand it for a club duplicate is normally 1 week.
How is this kind of problem normally resolved or should one consider a split score?
Both sides are somewhat at fault for agreeing an incorrect score.
Tim
Comments
The correction period is specified by the club: if they haven't specified it in their procedures for running the event then it is 30 minutes 79C1 - but the score may be corrected later if the director is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that it is wrong(as here) 79C2.
Law 79B handles disagreement of number of tricks.
I think the fairest way would be to split the score: declaring side gets the result of 3NT making fewer overtricks and the defending side gets the result of conceding more overtricks.
Although technically you could argue that the declaring side should get the table result - as you cannot increase the score 79B3
I take a simple view. They agreed a result at the table. If they can't agree what it should be changed to, then the original agreed score stands.
While I'd like that to be the rule sometimes, it's fair enough to adjust the score when both pairs agree they inputted it wrong. If the pairs can't reach agreement about number of tricks, then we just make our best effort to reconstruct the play and if we still can't work it out a split score isn't silly. If they can agree on 3NT then the score should be some form of 3NT.
I quite like John's solution.
A split score is required when they can't agree and the director cannot satisfactorily determine what happened.
I think you should interpret the law as saying that what can be agreed should be used as the basis of the result and what is isn't agreed should be lead to different outcomes for the two pairs.
NS get the score for 3NT making however many tricks EW think it made.
EW get the score for 3NT making however many tricks NS think it made.
Thanks all for your input, much appreciated.