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- From: maceache@fox.nstn.ns.ca (Tim Maceachern)
- Subject: Re: A Defensive Problem
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.180747.3967@nstn.ns.ca>
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- References: <1992Dec29.152155.18908@ramon.bgu.ac.il> <1992Dec29.160100.1@aud2.aud.auc.dk> <1hqk5vINNm17@rifraf.atl.ge.com> <1992Dec31.152528.1@aud2.aud.auc.dk>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:07:47 GMT
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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
-
- I'm still in favour of the heart King, rather than a low one. The play
- of the King will serve to wake partner up to the necessity of telling
- me what to play when I'm in with the Club King on the next trick. I
- can imagine partner being much less forthcoming if I lead a low heart.
-
- If partner has j72 in hearts, I want to see the 7 on the heart lead.
- The king is such an unusual lead that I believe partner will have to
- signal. However, if I lead a low heart, I'm not sure that partner
- will signal. Of course, if partner's cards are not suitable for
- signalling, I may lead a diamond later by mistake... that's life.
-
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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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