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Posted 2009-January-25, 21:19

Contract is 7♠, with the K♣ lead.


This hand was given to me by a friend... I couldn't find a way to make it, even after staring at the thing for over an hour... I was wondering if anyone had any ideas?

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Posted 2009-January-25, 21:35

This is a very well known hand, the theme is very popular in double dummy problems.

It is sort of an elegant solution, just to think about how to unblock the diamonds.
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Posted 2009-January-25, 22:08

Take it with the ♣A (pitch a diamond), spade to the ace, ruff a heart, spade to the king, ruff another heart, draw the rest of the trumps discarding ♦AK on the last trump and ♥A.
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Posted 2009-January-25, 22:15

manudude03, on Jan 25 2009, 11:08 PM, said:

Take it with the ♣A (pitch a diamond), spade to the ace, ruff a heart, spade to the king, ruff another heart, draw the rest of the trumps discarding ♦AK on the last trump and ♥A.

Cool, thanks... This looked like a set up hand... I had looked at that line and the ♦ unblock at some point, but I never realized I was going to be able to pitch on the ♠. Turns out I was actually given the hand to play in 7NT... I also looked at that for a while, but I didn't see a line there either :), is there a way to make 7NT here also?
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Posted 2009-January-25, 22:29

mtvesuvius, on Jan 26 2009, 05:15 AM, said:

manudude03, on Jan 25 2009, 11:08 PM, said:

Take it with the ♣A (pitch a diamond), spade to the ace, ruff a heart, spade to the king, ruff another heart, draw the rest of the trumps discarding ♦AK on the last trump and ♥A.

Cool, thanks... This looked like a set up hand... I had looked at that line and the ♦ unblock at some point, but I never realized I was going to be able to pitch on the ♠. Turns out I was actually given the hand to play in 7NT... I also looked at that for a while, but I didn't see a line there either :), is there a way to make 7NT here also?

Can't see a way of getting to 13, 12 is simple, but the 13th is stranded :) Only lead I can see 13 tricks in NT is a heart lead.

EDIT: I just checked NT on a double dummy program, it says you can't make 7NT.
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