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Answer to Hand of the week,
Sunday 19th December 2010
What do you lead ? Plan your defence
♠ A
♥ J
♦ Q J 9 5 3
♣ Q J 10 8 6 2
♠ K Q 10 7 2
♠ 8 6 5 4
♥ 9 7 3 2
♥ 6
♦ 6 2
♦ A K 10 8 4
♣ A 7 ♣ K 4 3 ♠ J 9 3
♥ A K Q 10 8 5 4
♦ 7 ♣ 9 5
W
N
E
S
4♥
NO
NO
NO
There is an expression “Long In Trump Lead Length” and
there is no reason not to conform with that here. As you have 4 trumps and a
decent Spade suit you should make a positive ªK
lead. Declarer will be pinned to dummy and whatever he plays
next, either you or partner will get the lead and play a trump. Now the defence will get to make 2 Spades 1 Diamond
and 2 clubs defeating the contract by two tricks. Had you made a short suit lead, possibly clubs and
partner continued clubs then declarer will have the timing to prevail and easiy
make 10 tricks by way of 1 Spade, 7 trumps and 3 established clubs (Declarer will chuck his losing Diamond away if East
tries to play a third round of Clubs, but he might play a high Diamond first. If
he does that then declarer could ruff the third club very high and have the
timing to go over to the ©J
back to hand via a Diamond ruff to draw the rest of the trumps and still the
ªAce is there as the entry back
to the established clubs) 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