Hand of the week commencing Sunday19th March 2006
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7
2
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Neither
Vulnerable |
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Q
8 6 4 |
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5
4 |
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A
10 9 8 3 |
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N |
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A
K 8 5 3
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Q J 10 6 |
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3
2 |
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7 5 |
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A
10 7 3 |
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Q J 8 2 |
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7
5 |
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6 4 2 |
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9
4 |
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K J 10 9 |
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K
9 6 |
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K
Q J |
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E |
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1© |
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2© |
2ª |
4© |
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You
lead the Spade Ace and partner drops the queen plan your defence.
When partner drops the Queen this is shows either a singleton (partner couldn’t help themselves !!) or it guarantees the card immediately below it.
With
this information you now have to work out how to produce 4 defensive tricks
knowing partner has very little. If partner had the Club king the contract is
doomed but if declarer has good clubs then declarer could wrap up 10 tricks
before you get a chance to take your 4. Therefore in order to defeat this
contract you are probably going to have to make 2 spades and 2 Diamonds. To
cater for partner having QJ of Diamonds rather than the King (if he has king
then it does not matter) you need to put partner in so he can lead Diamonds
through declarer. So at trick one, knowing partner has the Spade Jack, you play
a low Spade so he can win and hopefully he will now switch to the Diamond Queen
and 4 tricks will be there for the taking. Any other defence and declarer gets
home easily. This hand is just another example from Modern bridge Defence an
excellent book by Eddie Kantar
in the Master Point Press series..