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Answer to Hand of the week,
Sunday 12th December 2010
Plan your defence after partner leads ©6
♠ K 10 8 4 2
♥ K 4
♦ Q 10 8 2
♣ J 10
♠ Q ♠ 9 3
♥ 8 6 5
♥ A 10 9 7 3
♦ J 7 6 3
♦ A 5 4
♣ A 8 7 5 3
♣ K 9 2
♠ A J 7 6 5
♥ Q J 2
♦ K 9 ♣ Q 6 4
W
N
E
S
NO
NO
1♠
NO
4♠
NO
NO
NO
The lead looks like either top of Nothing
or Mud (also promising nothing) so playing back another Heart will be fruitless. But what to play next ? As you are not
sure what the best thing to do is, you should cash your other Ace and see if
partner encourages or discourages. Partner will discourage the Diamond switch so
all you are left with now is to play a low club showing an Honour (your King).
Partner is only too pleased to win and play back a Club to immediately beat the
contract by one. With any other defence declarer will get a chance to chuck a
Club loser away on third round of Hearts 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