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Play 010 - Defensive hand. Attempt at GREEN Problem

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Posted 2014-May-20, 21:20

An attempt at a GREEN PROBLEM (Kenberg's color scheme idea), By this I mean easiest possible, although it contains a number of visualization issues for novices and beginners and discusses some carding agreements and shows how these agreements might be used (they really are not needed).

Your opponents quickly bid to 7NT. South's 1NT was a balanced 15 to 17 HCP, 2 was stayman which asked opener to bid a four or five card major, 2 denied a long major, 4 was ace asking gerber, 4 showed two aces. You can click on the bids to see these bids (other than 1NT these would not be alerted in a real game).

Your partner leads the jack of hearts. Below are some simple questions with hidden answers. Then we will get to the final question.


How many hearts does your partner hold?
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How many total HCP can your partner hold on this hand?
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You can click the NEXT button to see the first multiple tricks. Trick one, South wins the King in his hand. He leads a heart to trick two, and partner pops up with the heart TEN as dummy wins. You discard one of your clubs. Only you can keep declarer's club JACK from becoming a winner, so you discard a high club using standard carding to let partner know you have clubs "stopped".

Declarer plays a spade to his ACE, partner plays the 4 standard count. Who has the spade King? How many spades does declarer hold?
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Declarer leads a third round of hearts, partner pops up with the 9, dummy wins and you discarded a low . Partner got off to what turns out to be a sad opening lead from JT9xx. Normally that is a fairly safe lead. :(

Declarer continues with the last heart from dummy, what do you discard? A spade? A club? A diamond? Why?

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Posted 2014-May-21, 08:18

I like working fairly basic problems. Staying sharp on these is worth at least as much as, and probably more than, mastering expert level plays.

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Life is long and beautiful, if bad things happen, good things will follow.
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