Catalogue of Errors

Pages: Page 5 of 5

Dealer: East
Vuln: E-W
Scoring: Butler IMPs
  1. spade9 8 7 2
  2. heartA 8
  3. diamondK Q 9 5
  4. clubA K 9
  1. spade3
  2. heartK Q 7 5
  3. diamond7 4 2
  4. clubQ J 8 7 3
club diamond heart spade NT
N - 4 - 1 2
S - 4 - 1 2
E 2 - - - -
W 2 - - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeK Q J 5 4
  2. heartJ 10 9
  3. diamondA
  4. club10 6 5 2

Contract: 3club
Declarer: East
Lead: diamondJ
  1. spadeA 10 6
  2. heart6 4 3 2
  3. diamondJ 10 8 6 3
  4. club4
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1spade Pass
1NT Pass 2club Pass
3club Pass Pass Pass
. . . to, inexplicably, the eight! A surprised North won cheaply and cashed clubAK to put East one down - when North continued with a diamond there was no way back to hand to cash the winning spade after spadeA had been ruffed out!

East had done the correct thing in playing a spade at trick one, for otherwise North can always obtain a heart ruff. South had handed declarer a potential overtrick by ducking spadeA but East had handed it, and more, back with the peculiar club play. If East inserts a top club from dummy at trick five then North is likely to win and underlead his diamond honours in the hope of a heart ruff. Declarer ruffs, ruffs a spade, ruffs another diamond and exits with club10 to make an overtrick.
Previous page

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