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Hand of the week, week commencing, Sunday 15th March 2026
Plan your defence after you lead the ♥Queen and proceed to take the first tricks
If you would like to play this out click here
Dealer: West Vuln: None
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| 3♦ | Double | Pass | 4♠ |
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Declarer tries the Jack at trick one, won by partner's Queen who now plays the Heart Ace and switches to a club.
In order to defeat this contract you will need to take 4 tricks and after 3 tricks you are 3/4 of the way there.
What to do now?
Do you now play the ♦King back hoping to establish a Diamond trick once dummy's Ace has gone?
Or do you do what is called "follow partner's defence" ?
Why has partner now switched to a Club? Oh ! maybe partner has only one club and can now ruff!
So you dutifully play a second club and do get a pleasant surprise when partner does ruff and you take the setting trick.
When I originally played this hand my partner played Top Diamond back and now declarer got home making 5 spades, 4 Clubs and 1 Diamond.
(He now knows about following partner's defence☺☺)
You can watch the film being played out by going to www.haroldschogger.com/movies2.htm
