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pclayton, on Feb 20 2008, 09:07 PM, said:

cherdano, on Feb 20 2008, 05:42 PM, said:

pclayton, on Feb 20 2008, 05:09 PM, said:

han, on Feb 20 2008, 02:39 PM, said:

Beginner's should be able to find the club at trick 2?

One would think so. Sigh...

Phil, I really don't know why you are constantly completely misjudging the difficulty of plays like this. Remember Larry Cohen's recent LMP report where he described how many in the final session of LMP missed an elimination play that was a lot more obvious than the one you posted here.

Yes I know, sorry.

I need to post more transfer squeezes in the BI section.

Or double guard squeezes:
http://forums.bridge...showtopic=23032

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jdonn, on Feb 20 2008, 08:58 PM, said:

I think this play would be found by no beginners, no intermediates, almost no advanced players, maybe half of all experts, and most world class players.

Woo Hoo! I just moved to advanced!

Seriously, I don't find the club switch very difficult. I don't understand squeezes, throwins, and suchlike very well. So I think in terms of running a long suit hoping there's a squeeze somewhere, and eliminating suits and throwing in opponents hoping to get a ruff-and-sluff or a free finesse out of it. Oh, and keeping entries.

So in this case, I look and see that I'm in no hurry to play trumps (keeping entries), and I'll have to eliminate the clubs someday (eliminating a suit). So I would probably find the club lead at the table. On the ruffed club return, would I then find the play of the jack of diamonds? Maybe. Maybe I would then run upteen kazillion hearts trying to squeeze East instead. Depends on how awake I am.

But playing the club on trick 2 really looks like the what-can-it-hurt kind of play I actually find at the table.