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You have bid to 4S and are declarer (South).
West leads ♦K and you see
Plan the play.
If the scoring was IMPS, how would you play?
(As usual Adv/Exp please refrain from posting too early).
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4S contract MP - IMP
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Posted 2008-July-08, 17:31
Scoring is MP.
You have bid to 4S and are declarer (South).
West leads ♦K and you see
Plan the play.
If the scoring was IMPS, how would you play?
(As usual Adv/Exp please refrain from posting too early).
You have bid to 4S and are declarer (South).
West leads ♦K and you see
Plan the play.
If the scoring was IMPS, how would you play?
(As usual Adv/Exp please refrain from posting too early).
#2
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Posted 2008-July-08, 17:59
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Posted 2008-July-08, 20:18
These are awful hands. So many options....
Duck the first diamond - I can't see how it will hurt. Win the second, tossing a heart, and heart to the king. If it fails, I can still try the club finesse.
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Duck the first diamond - I can't see how it will hurt. Win the second, tossing a heart, and heart to the king. If it fails, I can still try the club finesse.
V
Still decidedly intermediate - don't take my guesses as authoritative.
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rule number 1 in efficient forum reading:
hanp does not always mean literally what he writes.
hanp does not always mean literally what he writes.
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Posted 2008-July-08, 20:57
not sure if 3.5 hours is long enough to avoid "too early", or if I get credit for being adv/exp... but here is my hidden choice... Don't read until you work it out on your own in the small chance I am right.
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Posted 2008-July-09, 09:56
Regarding Inquiry's IMPs line:
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Still decidedly intermediate - don't take my guesses as authoritative.
"gwnn" said:
rule number 1 in efficient forum reading:
hanp does not always mean literally what he writes.
hanp does not always mean literally what he writes.
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Posted 2008-July-09, 11:04
vuroth, on Jul 9 2008, 10:56 AM, said:
Regarding Inquiry's IMPs line:
V
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Posted 2008-July-10, 02:19
9 tricks. need one more. Club finesse is bad cause when it loses, heart comes back and lose 3 H and a C. Would rather take club finesse other way but have two clubs. Simple. Duck diamond discarding club on ace, then can draw trump & take finesse other way. Is this right?
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Posted 2008-July-10, 07:44
Yes well done quantumcat.
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.
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Posted 2008-July-11, 09:12
I used to come here a while ago and people would post puzzles for beginners. I liked them. Are they still posted sometimes?
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Posted 2008-July-11, 10:15
Quantumcat, on Jul 10 2008, 03:19 AM, said:
9 tricks. need one more. Club finesse is bad cause when it loses, heart comes back and lose 3 H and a C. Would rather take club finesse other way but have two clubs. Simple. Duck diamond discarding club on ace, then can draw trump & take finesse other way. Is this right?
For IMPS, yes.
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Posted 2008-July-11, 11:59
Without reading the rest of the posts, I would cash the ♣A at imps after drawing trumps so the contract makes if E has a singleton King. At MPs I would take the club finesse first (after drawing trumps) in case the opponents don't return hearts if it fails so I can still make the contract if both ♥A and ♣K are offside.
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Lead ♦K.