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End positions not found in any book Make your bridge game more exciting

#21 User is offline   fred 

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Posted 2012-February-11, 15:02

Click link and go through 9 tricks for 4-Kings ending

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Posted 2012-February-11, 15:50

Nice, but it's too bad you couldn't shorten the long trump 1 more so that the 4 kings all won the last 4 tricks.
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Posted 2012-February-12, 22:20

View Postfred, on 2011-December-25, 19:08, said:

Finding bridge a little boring these days? ...

This can backfire:

♠ AJx
♥ xx
♦ QJxxx
♣ xxx

♠ Kx
♥ Kxxx
♦ AKxxx
♣ xx

LHO had opened 1♥, and I'm playing in 3♦. ♥ were not touched by the defence, but ♣ ended up being cleared (with RHO who did not respond producing the King). It's simple enough to make 3♦, but seeing the opportunity to endplay LHO with ♠Q for a cuter finish, I took it. Trouble is, when I played ♠J from dummy, I was too keen to discard a ♥ that I failed to react to RHO covering with ♠Q :o
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Posted 2012-February-12, 23:27

I really enjoy this thread a lot, and I'm happy to see it bumped.
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Posted 2012-February-17, 15:11

Click and go through trick 10 for 3 Kings opposite 3 Queens ending

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Posted 2012-November-15, 17:36

Click the link and go through 9 tricks to see 4-10s ending

Note the careful play required to reach this ending and the failure to fall into the trap GIB East set at trick 8.

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Posted 2012-November-16, 10:26

View Postfred, on 2011-December-26, 16:47, said:

Yet another example

Go through the first 7 tricks to see the ending and notice several important points of technique:

- the farsighted unblock of the Queen of clubs at trick 1
- the careful play of the trump suit
- the importance of rectifying the count at trick 7
- the delicate order in which the cards were played to the last 6 tricks

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What's going on with this one? South's hand is high after trick 7.

The best example of this kind of thing I've seen so far is when my LHO held a 4333 hand. Each suit was a run of cards and the hand had one of each rank - something like ♠AKQJ ♥765 ♦1098 ♣432. Pretty lame compared to having the last trick consist of all 9's :)

Oh, I guess yesterday partner did win a trick with a 5 (everyone following), but I think most people have achieved that.

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Posted 2012-November-16, 10:35

A week or two ago my partner nicely discarded so that I was able to win the last trick with a deuce.

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Posted 2013-February-17, 12:31

Click and go to trick 13

Note how both humans cooperated with the robot declarer to reach this rare ending.

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Posted 2013-February-19, 00:43

A real expert- keeping a no chance of winning a trick card (spade) over one that has a slight chance (heart).
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Posted 2013-February-26, 18:33

Click and go to trick 12

Note how declarer was careful to rectify the count for the four-7s ending with her loser-on-loser play on the second round of spades.

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Posted 2013-April-25, 20:16

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My partner (unintentionally) got to this 11 card ending - not sure if it counts since she had to lose the final trick (though it would have made it so much better if somehow South had the ♦K for a double whammy but unfortunately the contract would have failed at that point). Thanks to this thread I was able to see and appreciate these kind of endings and mentioned it to the table, however nobody else seemed to be as fond of the ending as I was.
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Posted 2013-April-25, 21:16



A bit different but
Unpublished, as far as I know:

♠ are trumps.
North leads.
NS to make 5 of the last 6 tricks.


Same theme:

♠ are trumps.
North leads.
NS to make 7 of the last 8 tricks


Same theme but harder

♠ are trumps.
West leads.
NS to make 4 of the last 5 tricks.
Fails if you swap ♠4 and ♠5.

:) The last was my 1st ever composition :)

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Posted 2013-September-04, 08:17

Trick 13 - Well done partner

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Posted 2013-September-04, 09:05

I was playing in an ACBL Robot Tournament on BBO the other day, and this deal came up. The play was uninteresting, but the end position was great. And it came about with out any particular planning on my part.

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Posted 2013-September-04, 11:56

View PostArtK78, on 2013-September-04, 09:05, said:

I was playing in an ACBL Robot Tournament on BBO the other day, and this deal came up. The play was uninteresting, but the end position was great. And it came about with out any particular planning on my part.

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:) Nice. That one kind of forced itself on you doesn't it. Bless lefty for not leading a heart.
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Posted 2013-November-23, 21:21


unfortunately some mistakes were made in the actual play of the hand and I ended up having ♠A ♥A ♣5 opposite the three tens with LHO having ♠KJ ♣K
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