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- From: maceache@fox.nstn.ns.ca (Tim Maceachern)
- Subject: Re: A Defensive Problem
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.233625.9762@nstn.ns.ca>
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- Organization: NSTN Network Operations Centre, Nova Scotia, Canada
- References: <1992Dec29.152155.18908@ramon.bgu.ac.il> <1992Dec29.160100.1@aud2.aud.auc.dk>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:36:25 GMT
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- >In article <1992Dec29.152155.18908@ramon.bgu.ac.il>, avir@chen.bgu.ac.il (Avi Roy Shapira) writes:
- >> Okbridge is becoming a meeting place for r.g.ber's and more and more of us
- >> meet there for an occasional skirmish. This is good. The other day, our
- >> own professor BY dropped by (sorry we didn't play a few hands together BY)
- >>
- >> Anyhow, playing with a good partner, 2/1 with gedgets I picked up in
- >> 4th seat, W v R, the following collection of tickets:
- >> JT72, K983, A74, K6
- >>
- >> After 3 passes, do you open? I guess it is close but the possesion of both
- >> majors made me open 1D (weird huh?) RHO overcalls 1NT Pard X's LHO XX's.
- >> and there it stands.
- >>
- >>
- >> 98,
- >> QT,
- >> QJT3
- >> A9752
- >> JT72
- >> K983
- >> A73
- >> K6
- >>
- >> Parter leads the SK, and follows with SQ, SA and small spade to the J.
- >> dummy discards two small clubs. Declarer follows three times and discards
- >> a diamond on the J of spades.
- >>
- >> How do you continue?
- >>
- >> --
- >> Aviel Roy-Shapira, M.D. Ben-Gurion University Medical School
- >> Dept. of Surgery A. POB 151, Beer Sheva, Israel
- >> avir@chen.bgu.ac.il AVIR@BGUVM.BITNET
-
-
- I continue with a barely visible sweat on my forehead. Don't like this
- one bit. I do appear to be in line to get my two minor suit tricks
- though. Have to develop a heart trick. How? Bite the bullet and
- lead the King of hearts. Prepare to duck under the table if partner
- throws his/her cards at you. In better days partner will have three
- hearts to the Jack.
-
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- * Tim MacEachern * Tim_MacEachern@hawk.nstn.ns.ca *
- * Software Kinetics Ltd. * or maceache@hawk.nstn.ns.ca *
- * Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada * *
- * Opinions expressed are the author's only *
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