Lovely Deal From South Africa

Pages: Page 4 of 6

Dealer: East
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spade8 5
  2. heart8 7 3
  3. diamondK 10 6
  4. clubA Q J 9 2
  1. spadeQ J 7 3
  2. heart9 6 2
  3. diamond7 3 2
  4. club7 6 4
club diamond heart spade NT
N 4 - 3 - 1
S 4 - 3 - 1
E - 3 - 3 -
W - 3 - 3 -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeA K 10 9 4
  2. heartA 4
  3. diamondQ J 9 8 5
  4. club3

Contract: 4heart
Declarer: South
Lead: spadeQ
  1. spade6 2
  2. heartK Q J 10 5
  3. diamondA 4
  4. clubK 10 8 5
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1spade 2heart
Pass 3heart Pass 4heart
Pass Pass Pass
PART ONE - GOOD DEFENCE: From the lead, East worked out that West must have spadeJ. Planning the defence accordingly, he overtook with spadeK and fired thru' his singleton club! East knew he would get in again with his heartA when declarer drew trumps, and his plan was to engineer the setting trick with a club ruff. Once in with heartA he would get to his partner's hand with a low spade to the presumed jack (the lead of the queen promised the jack). Two spades, ace of trumps and a club ruff - ONE DOWN!

...
Previous page Next page

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