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Answer to Hand of the week,
week commencing
Sunday 11th December 2011
Can you match the Graham Robertson’s brilliancy in the World University Games in the East Seat ?
Dealer West ♠ 7 3 Both Vul
♥ A 7 4
♦ 7 5 4 3 2
♣ 9 8 2
♠ Q 10 8 6 4 2
♠ 9
♥ Q
♥ K J 10 8 5 2
♦ J 10 9
♦ A 6 ♣ Q J 6
♣ A 10 5 4
♠ A K J 5
♥ 9 6 3
♦ K Q 8
♣ K 7 3
W
N
E
S
2♠
NO
NO
2NT
NO
NO
NO
If you lazily play back your partner’s
suit or continue Diamonds declarer will probably scramble home or at worst go
one off.. However Graham decided that partner’s lead was probably a safe lead
from a short Diamond suit and continuing Diamonds would help declarer more than
the defence. He needed to take the Heart Ace of the table (the entry to the long
Diamonds). With this in mind he played the Heart king and got an even better
reward when partner turned up with a singleton Heart. The suit wasn’t going to
get blocked and now the defence had no problem in wrapping up 7 tricks and
defeating declarer by two tricks Graeme Robertson again performed
brilliancy at trick one when he switched to KH taking entry off table –double
dividend when partner had singleton Queen now all his Hearts good when club led
off table down two You can also view
watch the following movie to see how the hand pans out. (You need bridgvu.exe
programme or BridgeBase programme on your machine already to view it ) and
it is available free from
http://www.haroldschogger.com/videos.htm alternatively watch the film
www.haroldschogger.com/movies2.htm