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Answer to Hand of the week,
week commencing
Sunday 5th February 2012
Plan your defence after cashing the ªAce at trick one.
♠ 10 5
♥ 8 7 6 4 3
♦ 10 4
♣ 9 8 6 2
♠ A K 4 3
♠ J 9 8 2
♥ Q J 5
♥ 9 2
♦ 8 6
♦ J 5 2
♣ Q J 7 5
♣ A 10 4 3
♠ Q 7 6
♥ A K 10
♦ A K Q 9 7 3
♣ K
W
N
E
S
2♦
NO
2NT
NO
3♦
NO
NO
NO
After cashing the Spade Ace you must notice that dummy
has just one more Spade and declarer might try and ruff a Spade in dummy before
drawing trumps. Therefore at trick Two, it is vital that you switch to a
trump, removing one of dummy’s trumps. If declarer attempts to play another
spade, you must fire back another trump. By the way, partner discouraged Spades
at trick one and if you were to try and cash the King at that point, again you
would be presenting declarer with a ninth trick. Declarer should lose 3 spades, 1 Heart and 1 Club (NB
Notice how worthless declarer’s singleton Club was
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
