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Your plan to make 6♠ North on a lead of ♣A?
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Posted Yesterday, 08:57
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Your plan to make 6♠ North on a lead of ♣A?
[experts please use a spoiler at first]
Your plan to make 6♠ North on a lead of ♣A?
[experts please use a spoiler at first]
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Posted Yesterday, 09:32
I am not even going attempt this. I can't do these problems on paper, I need to see the play.
I have to ruff the club, it looks like I will need to hook East in a red suit.
I have to ruff the club, it looks like I will need to hook East in a red suit.
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
"You need to play a lot of stuff these days just to deal with the stuff your opponents are playing" DBurn
"You need to play a lot of stuff these days just to deal with the stuff your opponents are playing" DBurn
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Posted Yesterday, 09:39
pescetom, on 2026-July-15, 08:57, said:
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Your plan to make 6♠ South on a lead of ♣A?
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Your plan to make 6♠ South on a lead of ♣A?
[experts please use a spoiler at first]
I begin by barring the club lead. Sorry for not hiding that in a spoiler
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Posted Yesterday, 09:50
jillybean, on 2026-July-15, 09:32, said:
I am not even going attempt this. I can't do these problems on paper, I need to see the play.
I have to ruff the club, it looks like I will need to hook East in a red suit.
I have to ruff the club, it looks like I will need to hook East in a red suit.
It’s often just a matter of practice. It can be very difficult, but it’s necessary in order to become a better declarer. Begin with small steps. Picture a line of play for the first two or three tricks…then mentally look at what your hand and dummy.looks like and whether you think you’re on the right path. As you get more used to this, you’ll hopefully be able to visualize further and further ahead. That’s how, for example, one can realize that a promising line may trap you in the wrong hand at an important juncture.
Don’t worry if there are hands where this seems impossible. I’m a pretty good declarer but there are some hands that are too difficult for me and still more hands where it’s impossible to visualize very far because one doesn’t have enough information about the opponents’s holdings. These hands are sometimes referred to as ‘scrambles’, where one is sort of feeling one’s way trick by trick, preferably rethinking everything one trick at a time until, with luck, you know enough to make reasonable projections. Find a book on declarer play problems and practice. It’s like any other skill…it seems impossible but diligence should show you that it isn’t truly impossible. Even getting just a bit better will help your declarer play a lot…and although defence is even harder, the same applies there.
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