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- From: paul@sco.COM (Paul Jackson)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
- Subject: Re: alerted double; opening lead
- Keywords: double, lead
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.184544.1948@sco.COM>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 18:45:44 GMT
- References: <21DEC199211131587@mary.fordham.edu>
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- In article <21DEC199211131587@mary.fordham.edu> nissim@mary.fordham.edu (Leonard J. Nissim) writes:
- >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
- >assurance that he had no hearts, and so couldn't lead one. Not much to the
- >play; West ran his 7-card spade suit for down 3, doubled:
- >-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?
-
- West is allowed to lead whatever they want. Looking at that spade holding a
- spade lead is certainly reasonable (right many times that partner has a
- number of hearts != 1). Of course, if a spade lead is wrong and a heart lead
- right East will lost the post mortem big time and a partnership might die
- but that is hardly a matter for the director to worry about.
-
- The double by East said "West, I COMMAND you to look at your hand and lead a
- heart", this doesn't mean that West has to obey the command if his hand
- warrants.
-
- >
- >2) Was I a fool, or just fixed?
-
- The double by East was presuambly just a bad bid (ie, you were fixed).
-