A score awarded by the director. If the director judges that a pair or a team has suffered because of a transgression of the laws or ethics by opponents (even if the transgression is inadvertent), he has the power to adjust the actual score recorded to establish an equitable result, called an assigned score. If that is not possible, he will allocate an artificial score.
In a pairs’ event this will normally be 60% of the available matchpoints to the non-offending side and 40% to the offending side, or 50% to a side partly at fault.