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Answer to Hand of the week,
week commencing
Sunday 23rd October 2011
ª9 lead plan your play.
♠ Q
♥ A K Q 3 2
♦ 10 9 4 ♣ Q 8 7 4 ♠ K 9 8 7 6
♠ 5 3 2
♥ J 9
♥ 10 7 6 5 4
♦ Q J 7 6 2
♦ — ♣ 2 ♣ A K 6 5 3
♠ A J 10 4
♥ 8
♦ A K 8 5 3
♣ J 10 9
W
N
E
S
1¨
NO
1©
NO 1ª
NO
2§
NO
2NT
NO
3NT
NO
NO
NO
The opponent leads the
ª9 and dummy wins the first trick with
the Queen. You take stock and now have 2 spade tricks, 3 Heart tricks and 2
Diamond tricks, so you need two more. The Diamonds and Hearts will make any way
so you will need to establish two more tricks. With such good control of all
suits then you muster set about setting up Clubs. After winning the first trick,
immediately play a Club. East wins and of course fires back his partner’s suit.
You win the Ace and play another club which East wins and not unreasonably plays
back a final club. West can take his Spade King but that’s the end. You have amassed 3 Spades, 3 Hearts, 2
Diamonds and 2 Clubs. Had you gone after either red suit
earlier no extra tricks would have resulted.!!
J 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
