Hand of the week commencing
Sunday 12th March 2006
You
are East, partner leads the ª7
plan your defence.
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Dealer
North |
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3
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Both
Vulnerable |
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K 8 5 |
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Lead
ª7 |
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Q 8 6 3 |
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7 6 |
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7 6 4
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K 5 2 |
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9 3 |
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7
5 |
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9 3 2 |
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10 8 4 |
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J 10 8 |
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7 6 |
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DBL |
RDBL |
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1ª |
1NT |
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3NT |
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When
you defend are you wooden and merely come back same suit or do you occasionally
try and think things through ?
Partner has lead ª7 confirming either second from bad suit or top of nothing and most importantly for you no more future in Spades. After winning the first trick with your King you stop and take stock. No future in Spades now after partners lead. No future in either red suit which is on the table for all the world to see. Therefore a Club switch is called for. As long as partner has either the Queen or King then we can set up 3 clubs tricks plus the Ace, king of Spades. Declarer can only get 5 Diamond tricks and if partner possibly has the Heart Queen just 2 heart tricks, plus hopefully no more than 1 club trick. Woodenly, cashing the second Spade winner enables declarer to easily get home with 2 Spades, 2 Hearts and 5 Diamonds. An extra second‘s thought ensures a one trick defeat as the defence can establish 3 Clubs and just 2 spades restricting declarer to just 2 Hearts, 5 Diamonds and 1 club.