[nige1]

No trumps,
South to lead
And make 2 tricks.

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[JLOGIC]

cool squeeze

[Antrax]

I rarely get these, so if I'm not the only one, here's a spoilered solution.

Spoiler

Lead spade. W must pitch club or you win ♣A and ♥2. You pitch heart, E wins. Exits ♣H or you win ♣J and ♣A. You duck and E is endplayed.

[JLOGIC]

Antrax, on 2014-February-16, 22:30, said:

I rarely get these, so if I'm not the only one, here's a spoilered solution.

Spoiler

Lead spade. W must pitch club or you win ♣A and ♥2. You pitch heart, E wins. Exits ♣H or you win ♣J and ♣A. You duck and E is endplayed.

Spoiler

good job and your solution is correct, but just for completeness you don't have to duck the club honor exit... you can win and play a club towards your jack, RHO must win and the 7 will be bigger than his 6 at the end. ducking is fine too though

[whereagles]

I thought this was one of Kelsey/Otlik's "lunar squeezes"

[Zloty]

nige1, on 2014-February-16, 21:44, said:

No trumps,
South to lead
And make 2 tricks.

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I give up...'ll be happy to know

[nige1]

Zloty, on 2014-February-18, 10:03, said:

I give up...'ll be happy to know

Antrax and JLOGIC provide the [spoilered] answer.

Antrax, on 2014-February-16, 22:30, said:

Lead spade. W must pitch club or you win ♣A and ♥2. You pitch heart, E wins. Exits ♣H or you win ♣J and ♣A. You duck and E is endplayed.

JLOGIC, on 2014-February-16, 23:53, said:

good job and your solution is correct, but just for completeness you don't have to duck the club honor exit... you can win and play a club towards your jack, RHO must win and the 7 will be bigger than his 6 at the end. ducking is fine too though

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[Zloty]

nige1, on 2014-February-18, 10:23, said:

Antrax and JLOGIC provide the [spoilered] answer. Before deep-finesse, Hugh Darwen published a monthly full-deal double-dummy problem, which we struggled for days to try to solve. Darwen checked some of them by writing a program and running it on his IBM mainframe, at the week-end. Nowadays, DD-programs like Bridgify http://www.bridgify.net/ (free on the net) solve them in seconds. The programs also show that many of the problems, published by Darwen and others, were flawed! Darwen now publishes a monthly problem on his fascinating website http://doubledummy.net/

BOTS RULE OK!

Thanks

[fromageGB]

More of a throw in rather than a squeeze, but it can't lose, because whatever the distribution your Ace of clubs is always going to be a trick.

[johnu]

fromageGB, on 2014-February-18, 15:03, said:

More of a throw in rather than a squeeze, but it can't lose, because whatever the distribution your Ace of clubs is always going to be a trick.

West is in a positional squeeze. Switch the East and West hands and try to make it.

[fromageGB]

johnu, on 2014-February-18, 17:11, said:

West is in a positional squeeze. Switch the East and West hands and try to make it.

True, a throw in squeeze it is.

[hendrik13]

play small small S, look what west discard. If discard C then loser H, If discard H loser C. East win and then play King C, juat wait. an then east play Queen C take with ace and you win the last trick.