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#1 User is offline   mgoetze 

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Posted 2011-August-16, 06:35

For a change, I'm posting one I got right at the table and believe I know the answer to. But I think it is very instructive.



The first two tricks are given in the diagram. After these, there is a line which guarantees the contract against any distribution of the opponents' cards. Can you find it? (Players for whom this is not difficult should hide their answers.)

This post has been edited by mgoetze: 2011-August-16, 07:00

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Posted 2011-August-16, 06:48

I think it goes:
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Posted 2011-August-16, 07:00

Antrax' line works, but was not quite what I was looking for, so I have made the problem slightly more difficult by changing the ♥7 into a ♥3.
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Posted 2011-August-16, 07:09

View Postmgoetze, on 2011-August-16, 07:00, said:

Antrax' line works, but was not quite what I was looking for, so I have made the problem slightly more difficult by changing the ♥7 into a ♥3.


Unless I missed it, Antrax's claim got rejected because he forgot to draw the last trump :)

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Posted 2011-August-16, 07:14

At the time I posted, trumps were drawn after trick 3 :P
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Posted 2011-August-16, 08:16

So anyway, the problem was not as good as I thought, let me try an improved version.



Edit: Sorry, that wasn't good either.
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Posted 2011-August-16, 10:56

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Posted 2011-August-17, 03:01

What I wanted to show about the original deal is that you don't actually need to ruff a club. If RHO has 4 or more clubs, you can play the heart anyway, LHO can only return a heart or a spade, and if LHO has 4 or more clubs, you can play your 4th club discarding a heart from hand.
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Posted 2011-August-17, 07:00

View Postmgoetze, on 2011-August-17, 03:01, said:

What I wanted to show about the original deal is that you don't actually need to ruff a club. If RHO has 4 or more clubs, you can play the heart anyway, LHO can only return a heart or a spade, and if LHO has 4 or more clubs, you can play your 4th club discarding a heart from hand.

Good point indeed. You should've given the following hand:

You can even have followup questions:
- which lead would you prefer?
- how do you play after a trump lead? (most will play like Antrax - and won't forget the last trump :P )
- how do you play after a ♠ lead? (ping!)
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Posted 2011-August-17, 07:19

If I were a better player, I'm sure I could show you the double backwash non-simultaneous squeeze (without the count!) in your setup, Free :P
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View Postmgoetze, on 2011-August-16, 06:35, said:

For a change, I'm posting one I got right at the table and believe I know the answer to. But I think it is very instructive.



The first two tricks are given in the diagram. After these, there is a line which guarantees the contract against any distribution of the opponents' cards. Can you find it? (Players for whom this is not difficult should hide their answers.)

There is for hands of this type 2♦ Stayman: 1NT-2♦=? sure stopper(s) in major suit(s), 2♥=Ace in heart only stopper-3♦=nat.-4♦=fit and inv. ... If stoppers are in hearts and spades 2NT is the answere than not excluding to bid 3NT.
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Posted 2015-February-21, 04:36

-Ruff spade
-Clear last trump remain in hand
-Ruff last spade
-Cash 3 rounds of clubs remaining in dummy. If 3-3 clubs cash 4th and take ♥ finesse for overtrick. If W has 4 clubs play 4th club and discard a heart end playing W. If E has 4th trump, play a heart from dummy and cover as cheap as possible whatever E plays, end playing W.
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