glennak

Recently I was playing in an individual tournament and my partner, as declarer, conceded all 13 tricks to the opponents. Had he played the hand, he could have gone down two and gotten an above-average board for us, but I was helpless to stop his concession and received a bottom score. My suggestion is to include a feature requiring both players in a pair to agree to concede tricks in individual tournaments. I suppose my partner could still deliberately play to lose tricks, but I suspect that if required either to play the hand or leave the table and let a robot finish the hand, most players would attempt to play to win. glennak