Autumn Pairs Day 1 – fouled board

During Section A’s competition of the Autumn Pairs on 10 April 2019, it was discovered that a board was fouled well into the match. The board was unavoidably discounted from the competition and an average was taken across the section....

This is a timely reminder that all players need to maintain the board's correct direction on the table and to take care when replacing cards into the holder — in this instance, it appears the cardholder was rotated and so the players wrongly replaced the N/S cards into the E/W positions.