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- From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
- Subject: Re: Place the Blame
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- Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department
- References: <9212171310.aa09953@Paris.ics.uci.edu> <1992Dec21.010736.29331@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:49:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.010736.29331@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >In article <9212171310.aa09953@Paris.ics.uci.edu> kibler@turing.ICS.UCI.EDU (Dennis Kibler) writes:
- >...
- >>>2 Play :
-
- >>>Butler Teams S AJ964 N E S W
- >>>EW H KJ74 1C+ 1N* X~ 2C
- >>>D-N D AK5 2S P 4S all pass
- >>> C J
- >>> + precision
- >>> S KQ3 S 5 * minors
- >>> H Q10962 H 3 ~ 5-8 any shape
- >>> D 8 D Q9763
- >>> C AQ94 C 1086532
- >>
- >>> S 10872 Trick 1: 5C 7C QC JC
- >>> H A85 Trick 2: AC ruffed
- >>> D J1042 Trick 3: AS
- >>> C K7
-
- >>>Declarer could no longer avoid 4 losers;N was told he should have crossed to
- >>>AH and finessed trumps. Is this correct?
-
-
- >>Hmnn, East announces that he has a maximum of 3 cards in the majors.
- >>Where do you think the spades honors are? Yes, go to table and finesse.
-
- >This is, of course, true, provided entries are plentiful.
-
- >Unfortunately, in this case, there is only one entry to the table, and
- >declarer needs it for the heart finesse (which is almost certainly on).
-
- >Thus, he has to pray for a favorable spade position.
-
- HOWEVER, what will East lead if, by some chance, he wins the first spade?
-
- Unless East has 2 spades, declarer can take the heart finesse first and
- ruff the fourth heart for an entry to take the spade finesse. Assuming
- that the heart finesse wins and that East has 1 spade, only the singleton
- queen of diamonds in West or 9 clubs in East can give a problem. Even
- if West has all 4 spades, the defense must play well to give problems.
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