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Poll: Who to blame here? (13 member(s) have cast votes)

Who to blame here?

  1. East 100% (1 votes [7.69%])

    Percentage of vote: 7.69%

  2. East 75% (5 votes [38.46%])

    Percentage of vote: 38.46%

  3. About Equal (3 votes [23.08%])

    Percentage of vote: 23.08%

  4. West 75% (2 votes [15.38%])

    Percentage of vote: 15.38%

  5. West 100% (2 votes [15.38%])

    Percentage of vote: 15.38%

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#21 User is offline   CSGibson 

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Posted 2008-April-20, 21:44

pclayton, on Apr 16 2008, 07:00 AM, said:

An expert should get all hands in the B/I right all the time.

Or maybe the problems posted in the B/I section should be those that are always gotten right by experts...leading to the question: If (random expert) gets a problem in B/I wrong, is that an indictment of the expert, or the location of the problem?
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Posted 2008-April-20, 22:12

jdonn, on Apr 15 2008, 01:09 PM, said:

655321, on Apr 15 2008, 04:25 AM, said:

whereagles, on Apr 15 2008, 04:16 AM, said:

East should play the ♥Q, a merrimac coup.

Yes, East should play the ♥Q, but this is the Deschapelles Coup.
The Merrimac coup is when you play a high card to remove one of the declaring side's entries.

This is true, but I always found it strange that the same play has a different name based on the goal being attempted. I mean if you take a finesse to win a trick, or you take a finesse to keep someone off lead, or you take a finesse to get a count on highcards for a later suit, or you take a finesse to throw in an opponent, it's still a finesse.

No, I think this scenario has a name - The Jdonn Conundrum.
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Posted 2008-April-22, 00:01

From W POV what holding can East have to switch with the T of H ? He cant have only 2 because it would mean that south has 5 of them. With Txx and QJxx of spades he would exit a passive club. With Txxx he would play a low H not the T.

IMO west had no reason not to cover the J♥.
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Posted 2008-April-22, 01:04

benlessard, on Apr 22 2008, 07:01 AM, said:

From W POV what holding can East have to switch with the T of H ?

How about ♥10xx and ♠Qxxx? Now East has to switch to hearts, because on a passive defence declarer will make nine tricks. It's not clear which heart East should switch to, but the 10 is at least a possibility.
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Posted 2008-April-27, 04:38

with ♥10xx and ♠Qxxx there is no way to put down the contract anyway, plus leading small is better.
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Posted 2008-April-27, 06:57

OK, so make it ♥10xx and ♠QJxx. Now partner's heart switch was necessary to beat the contract (though he would have done better to hold up ♣K), and it will go down as long as you play low on this heart.

We already know that ♥10 from Q10xx would have been a misdefence. Are you going to play for your partner to have misdefended, or for him to have switched to his highest heart from 10xx?
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