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- From: nstraguz@atl.ge.com (Nick Straguzzi)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
- Subject: Re: A Defensive Problem
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 22:41:03 GMT
- Organization: GE Aerospace, Advanced Technology Labs
- Lines: 65
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- References: <1992Dec29.152155.18908@ramon.bgu.ac.il> <1992Dec29.160100.1@aud2.aud.auc.dk>
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- In article <1992Dec29.160100.1@aud2.aud.auc.dk> i13mufel@aud2.aud.auc.dk writes:
- >In article <1992Dec29.152155.18908@ramon.bgu.ac.il>, avir@chen.bgu.ac.il (Avi Roy Shapira) writes:
- >> Anyhow, playing with a good partner, 2/1 with g[a]dgets I picked up in
- >> 4th seat, W v R, the following collection of tickets:
- >> JT72, K983, A74, K6
- >>
- >> After 3 passes, do you open?
-
- Yes. No choice at matchpoints. What form of scoring is okbridge?
-
- >> 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.
-
- Just out of curiosity, how many netters play 1NT in this sequence as
- natural? I play it as Unusual, which I believe is the expert
- treatment in my neck of the woods. Is it true, as it appears here,
- that the Standard Earth expert treatment of a fifth seat 1NT overcall
- is natural? Even red vs. white??
-
- >> 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
- >
- >kC!
-
- I admit the CK is an attractive play, if only for its sense of high
- drama and the potential for building a worldwide reputation for
- brilliance. :-)
-
- Nonetheless, my vote is for a low heart.
-
- If declarer (who, BTW, is either 3-4-4-2 or 3-3-4-3) has the CQ and HJ
- to go along with his marked HA and DK, you are done for. So you may
- as well play partner for one or the other. For the CK to work, pard
- must hold not only the CQ but the CT as well. Otherwise, declarer
- will get home with two clubs, three diamonds, and two hearts on the
- hook. (Please don't tell me declarer is missing the CJ or HJ too --
- his bidding is weird enough as it is.)
-
- Yes, partner's spade carding *suggests* club values. But for him to
- hold the CQ is very unlikely and the CT as well even less so. If
- you're going to play him for a useful card, better it be a jack.
-
- (Let me guess: -760, right?)
-
- Nick
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