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Answer to Hand of the week,
week commencing
Sunday 24th July 2011
The §10 is led, plan your play.
♠ Q 10 4 3
♥ A
♦ K 4 3 2 ♣ A K 8 5 ♠ A 2 ♠ 8 5
♥ 7 6 2
♥ K J 10 4
♦ Q 9 8
♦ A J 10 6 5
♣ Q 10 9 6 4
♣ J 3 ♠ K J 9 7 6
♥ Q 9 8 5 3
♦ 7 ♣ 7 2
W
N
E
S
NO
NO
NO
1¨
NO
1ª
NO
4ª
NO
NO
NO
On this hand you need to try and establish your Hearts
and in order to do that you will need all your trumps in dummy to ruff the
hearts. If you dare to draw one round of trumps and the trump
suit breaks 3:1 when you try to ruff a final Heart by getting back to hand with
a diamond you run the risk that the opponents will take another trump off the
table cutting back on your ability to ruff Hearts. With this in mind, you take the first two clubs and then
ruff a club, play a Heart and then ruff another Club and ruff a Heart. Now play
a Diamond off the table (not normal play as you would like to lead up to the
Diamond king when in hand but if you do this you will be a trick short at the
end). They take the Ace and play trumps at you. The trumps have been drawn. You
are now left with two Hearts and one trump (you never shortened yourself
earlier) and you merely concede one more Heart. 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