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Just for fun ! Are you expert enough to ...go down ;)

#1 User is offline   Patapon 

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Posted 2009-January-26, 16:04

You are playing 4♠ after Est open 1♦.
LHO leads the ♦Q and RHO takes the Ace and plays back the ♣3.
How do you play?

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Posted 2009-January-26, 16:21

This is a classic scissors coup hand.

Obviously, you believe the switch was to a singleton club, and you want to prevent the opponents from getting their ruff.

So you win the club and play K, A, and another heart. When LHO does not cover the ♥10, you pitch a diamond from dummy, cutting off the communications between the two hands.

From the title to the thread, I can only guess that this is the only way to go down on the hand. That can only be because there is no club ruff but the opps can get a second round heart ruff.
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Posted 2009-January-26, 16:21

I play 3 rounds of hearts and pitch a ♦ from dummy. Draw trump later.

Edit:

Yeah I agree with Art.
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Posted 2009-January-26, 16:30

Normally I would play 3 rounds of ♥ pitching the ♦ from dummy. The trouble is that if the hand with the A♠ has 3♣ we have just gone down... I think that this is what is happening... So! In this postmortem I will lead a trump now :).
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Posted 2009-January-26, 16:33

Here are the four hands:



:P ;)
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Posted 2009-January-26, 16:34

Patapon, on Jan 26 2009, 05:33 PM, said:

Here are the four hands:



:P ;)

Nice
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Posted 2009-January-26, 16:44

Cool ;)

I actually got one right in the postmortem! :P
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Posted 2009-January-26, 16:52

Agree it is cool !

Thanks to Philippe Arnaud who has shown me this hand.

I easily went down too ;)
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Posted 2009-January-26, 17:04

Brilliant.. East is a devious mastermind. Some of these stories are about what might have happened, rather than what did happen... if rho found this defence in real life, he or she deserves a prize for a fantastic defence
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Posted 2009-January-28, 00:36

Interestingly, this same theme is presented, from the defender's point of view, in this month's Swiss Match in the Bridge World. See Board 3, February 2009. It's on page 16 :)


1♦ DBL 2♦ P
P DBL P 2♥
P 4♥ PPP

You lead the Diamond A and partner encourages.

Chip, who showed me the BW hand after I'd shown him the amusing one here, had refused to play the hand I gave him, saying he'd need to know the auction and who RHO was. The auction because it would be relevant whether RHO could know that his partner had no tricks. Who RHO was, to know whether RHO might lead a club from three small to try to develop a trick out of thin air.
Jan Martel, who should probably state that she is not speaking on behalf of the USBF, the ACBL, the WBF Systems Committee, or any member of any Systems Committee or Laws Commission.
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