So Difficult At the Table

Pages: Page 4 of 4

Dealer: West
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeA K 9 3
  2. heart8 6 5
  3. diamondA 8 4
  4. club10 7 6
  1. spadeQ J 10 7 6 4
  2. heart7 3
  3. diamondQ 5 2
  4. clubQ 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N - - 4 2 3
S - - 4 2 3
E 3 3 - - -
W 3 3 - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spade—
  2. heart10 2
  3. diamondK 10 9 6 3
  4. clubA J 9 8 5 4

Contract: 4heart
Declarer: South
Lead: spadeQ
  1. spade8 5 2
  2. heartA K Q J 9 4
  3. diamondJ 7
  4. clubK 3
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
2spade* Pass Pass 4heart
Pass Pass Pass

* weak

The reason I say that you have 10 seconds is that is how long Seres took to find the answer .... he played low at trick one! West naturally continued with spadeJ, covered by spadeA and ruffed by East. Although a diamond came back declarer was now in control. Winning with diamondA, he simply drew trumps and took the marked spade finesse, ditched his losing diamond on spadeK and led a club towards his king for the tenth trick.

Relatively easy when you see it presented a problem, but how many would find it at the table?
Previous page

This section is a placeholder for the forum. For the time being it will be a noshow class.