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Random or designed? Brilliancy by the Bot???

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Posted 2020-September-20, 09:05

This was board 9 in my set from yesterday's 2-Day Weekend Event --- Matchpoints.

(Rotated for convenience) The bot opens the bidding with 1♦ and we finally settle in 3NT. The bot switches seats with me and I become declarer and play proceeds as below (click NEXT to see how play progressed):



The situation now is:

West's known to be 1-4 and East is 5-3 in the minors. Even though it was MPs and every trick matters, I thought should risk playing for the contract.

If West holds the ♠10 in addition to the (highly probable) ♥A, I could see a way to succeed. Take a non-material finesse of the ♠9 and lead a top ♥ to secure my contract. So I led the ♠6 from hand and West promptly rose with the ♠10 to deny me a second entry to dummy. Down 1!

If it was a calculated play, I must say well done GIB!
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