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- From: sgm@sgfb.ssd.ray.com (Steven G. Myerson)
- Subject: Re: alerted double; opening lead
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.213416.17054@rayssd.ssd.ray.com>
- Keywords: double, lead
- Sender: news@rayssd.ssd.ray.com (Administrator)
- Organization: Raytheon Submarine Signal Division
- References: <21DEC199211131587@mary.fordham.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:34:16 GMT
- Lines: 48
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- In article <21DEC199211131587@mary.fordham.edu> Leonard J. Nissim writes:
-
- * At a 13-table duplicate game in a local club on board 10 (both
- * vulnerable, East dealer) I held as South:
- * S-xx H-Axx D-KJTx C-AKJ9
- * East opened 2H, weak. I bid 2N, which for my partnership shows 15-18hcp
- * and a definite heart stopper. (Qxx would not qualify, QJx would.) West
- * passed, and my partner bid 3N. East doubled, alerted. I asked for an
- * explanation, and got: "*Demands* a heart lead."
- *
- * I passed, partly on the assurance of a heart lead. All passed. The ace of
- * spades hit the table as the opening lead (asks for honor to be dropped under
- * it or for count, according to their card). "Director!" by me produced West's
-
- Exactly why did you call the director? Was there an infraction?
-
- * assurance that he had no hearts, and so couldn't lead one. Not much to the
-
- Even if West *did* have a heart, there is certainly no rule
- that says he has to lead it.
- The double was a request by east for west to lead a heart.
- West may lead anything he wants.
-
- The day that my partner can order me to play a certain card when
- defending is the day I take up a new hobby.
-
- * play; West ran his 7-card spade suit for down 3, doubled:
- *
- * [hands deleted]
- *
- * -800 was of course a bottom. With no outside entry, East's double seems
- * really strange. I have two questions:
- *
- * 1) If West had had a heart and still led the ace of spades, what would the
- * director have ruled?
-
- The director wouldn't have ruled anything. There was no infraction!
-
- * 2) Was I a fool, or just fixed?
-
- You were a fool to have called the director, not in the bidding.
-
- Yes, the double by east was ridiculous, as it just as easily
- could have turned a normal result for EW into a bottom.
- East has no way of knowing that 3N making is going to be a poor board.
- In that light, yes, you were fixed.
-
- Steve Myerson (sgm@sgfb.ssd.ray.com)
-