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- From: willner@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Steve Willner)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
- Subject: Ready for Flight A ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.211902.5314@head-cfa.harvard.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 21:19:02 GMT
- Sender: willner@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Steve Willner)
- Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Here's an interesting play problem from a recent sectional Flight B Swiss.
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- The bidding has gone:
- W N E S
- 1C P P 2NT (=18-20 balanced)
- P 3NT all pass
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- EW are playing a generic five-card major bidding system with 15-17
- notrump. The minor suit opening promised three cards.
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- The opening lead is the K of hearts, and you see:
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- 65 J93 AKQ5 9643
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- AKQ3 82 T63 AKJ7
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- West proceeds to cash four rounds of hearts, having started with
- AKQT. What do you discard on the hearts, and how do you play to make
- 3NT? West will not lead a club into your tenace.
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- When this hand is presented as a problem, it's pretty easy to make
- against the actual distribution. West was 3424, so you are bound to
- make as long as you play to squeeze East in the pointed suits. You
- mustn't discard two diamonds, though, or a diamond lead will destroy
- your entry position. At the table, both declarers took a club
- finesse for down one. :-(
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- I think the best line of play makes as long as West does not have
- more diamonds than clubs. (It works even if West is 1444; this was
- the hardest part for me.) If you can routinely find the correct play
- _at the table_, you are ready for Flight A. (If you can routinely
- judge when West has opened a 2443 hand with 1C, you will be _winning_
- flight A. Or is there a "sure trick" line?)
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- For extra credit, where did the defense go wrong?
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