[eagles123]

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we ended in 6S by East. It says you can make it DD... how do u make on best defence?
Thanks,

Eagles

[Zelandakh]

Can you not just take the spade and diamond finesses and then give up a club?

[Cyberyeti]

Not sure what best defence is. On a diamond lead for example:

A♦
spade to 10
A♠
Q♦ if N covers you can simply ruff, ruff a heart, draw the trump and duck a club, if he doesn't, simply duck a club while you have a trump in dummy.

On a heart lead you can play as above because N doesn't have a 3rd heart so you can afford to run yourself out of trumps.

[helene_t]

oops two fellow posters said the same while I was writing

you win the opening lead and play ♦A.

Now you take the spade finese and draw one more trump (felling the ♠K) but don't draw the last trump.

Now you take a ruffing finese by playing the ♦Q. If it is not covered you discard a heart. If it is covered you ruff and go back to your hand by ruffing a heart.

You now concede a club trick. You have five spade tricks, five heart tricks and ♦A. The twelth trick is either ♦Q (if it was not covered) or a diamond ruff (if it was covered).

Note that North can't take a second defensive trick after we give him a club trick. If he covered ♦Q our ♦J guards the diamonds, otherwise we still have a trump in dummy.

This post has been edited by helene_t: 2013-July-16, 05:14

[Fluffy]

curious, I played ♦Q before drawing the second round of trumps, it doesn't matter much but it seemed more natural to me.

[Cyberyeti]

Fluffy, on 2013-July-16, 07:58, said:

curious, I played ♦Q before drawing the second round of trumps, it doesn't matter much but it seemed more natural to me.

I was playing double dummy, doesn't really matter but a bit embarrassing if diamonds 6-1 and you get overruffed.