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- From: bharat@cs.uiuc.edu (R. Bharat Rao)
- Subject: Re: A Defensive Problem
- Message-ID: <C0348t.Mqv@cs.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept of Computer Science
- References: <1992Dec29.152155.18908@ramon.bgu.ac.il>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:19:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.152155.18908@ramon.bgu.ac.il>, avir@chen.bgu.ac.il (Avi Roy Shapira) writes:
- ||> 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?
-
- Ummmm, I think you should have unblocked in spades so that partner would be
- on lead now and would know which round suit to play (clubs from QTx or
- hearts from Jx(x)). Anyway, that apart a low heart should do fine as partner
- would need CQTx for a club to be right.
-
- Or if you want to be suitably dramatic, the HK as well. Declarer must have
- the HA, DK or be a certifiable lunatic (by no means impossible on
- Okbridge:-). if declarer has the HJ as well you are dead as he will make
- 3D + 3H + 1C (unless partner has CQTx).
-
- There is a remote possibility that declarer meant his 1NT as unusual;
- showing 5-4 in the round suits. ]
- partner has the
- |> --
- |> Aviel Roy-Shapira, M.D. Ben-Gurion University Medical School
-
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