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Opening lead: ♦A
Trick 2: x♣
You and your partner have been exuberant in the bidding. How do you plan to bring the contract home?
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What's the Gameplan? #2 Play Problem
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- Deipnosophist
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Posted 2009-April-20, 15:05
Opening lead: ♦A
Trick 2: x♣
You and your partner have been exuberant in the bidding. How do you plan to bring the contract home?
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- Andy Bowles
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Posted 2009-April-20, 17:03
The obvious line to to play for diamonds 4-3: trump to dummy, ♦ ruff, trump to dummy (finessing if LHO has three), ♦ ruff. If trumps broke or the diamonds are good, I can claim; otherwise I have to risk cashing the clubs whilst LHO still has a trump.
If I knew that LHO was 1552 I could arrange a trump squeeze against him: ♠Q, diamond ruff, ♣AK, club ruff, ♠A leaves:
with West still to discard on trick seven. Unfortunately, though, he'll throw a heart, and I'm likely to assume that he's 6-4 rather that 5-5, so the squeeze will have done me no good
If LHO plays ♠J on the first round, I might now try to cater for 1552 more reliably via an entry-shifting squeeze: trump to dummy's queen, ♦ ruff, ♣AK, ♣ ruff, ♥A (safe if I trust their defence), heart ruff with 10, ♦ ruff, to leave:
♠9 squeezes West in pleasing fashion.
Note that after I've drawn one trump and seen East follow, it's quite safe to cash ♣AK. If West has a singleton club and defended correctly at trick two in not playing a heart, he must be 2551, in which case I can't make by ruffing out the diamonds anyway.
If I knew that LHO was 1552 I could arrange a trump squeeze against him: ♠Q, diamond ruff, ♣AK, club ruff, ♠A leaves:
with West still to discard on trick seven. Unfortunately, though, he'll throw a heart, and I'm likely to assume that he's 6-4 rather that 5-5, so the squeeze will have done me no good
If LHO plays ♠J on the first round, I might now try to cater for 1552 more reliably via an entry-shifting squeeze: trump to dummy's queen, ♦ ruff, ♣AK, ♣ ruff, ♥A (safe if I trust their defence), heart ruff with 10, ♦ ruff, to leave:
♠9 squeezes West in pleasing fashion.
Note that after I've drawn one trump and seen East follow, it's quite safe to cash ♣AK. If West has a singleton club and defended correctly at trick two in not playing a heart, he must be 2551, in which case I can't make by ruffing out the diamonds anyway.
This post has been edited by gnasher: 2009-April-20, 17:06
... that would still not be conclusive proof, before someone wants to explain that to me as well as if I was a 5 year-old. - gwnn
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