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- From: jose@math.duke.edu (Greg Lawler)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
- Subject: Re: Ready for Flight A ?
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:10:58 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.211902.5314@head-cfa.harvard.edu> <1993Jan26.122108@is.morgan.com>
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- In article <1993Jan26.122108@is.morgan.com>, dcleal@is.morgan.com (David Cleal) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan25.211902.5314@head-cfa.harvard.edu>, willner@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Steve Willner) writes:
- > |>
- > |>
- > |> The opening lead is the K of hearts, and you see:
- > |>
- > |> 65 J93 AKQ5 9643
- > |>
- > |> AKQ3 82 T63 AKJ7
- > |>
- > |> 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.
- > |>
- >
- > I think the hand always makes if West has 3 or more clubs:
- >
- > Discard 2 clubs from hand, a club from table. Win the switch, cash two
- > diamonds and two clubs, finishing in hand to leave:
- >
- > 65 - Q5 9
- >
- > AKQ3 - T -
- >
- > If West has turned up with 4 diamonds, three rounds of spades will squeeze
- > him in the minors. If East has turned up with four diamonds, a diamond to
- > the queen will leave no-one able to retain 4 spades.
- >
-
- You are right if you get to see the opponents cards! However, you
- still don't know who has the four diamonds. I think the originial
- analysis was correct that you can't play for all possibilities.
-
- I think your play is correct, however; if West has shown up with
- four clubs and at least two diamonds you know he does not have four spades
- so you can safely play for a double squeeze with diamonds as the
- pivot suit. If West shows out in diamonds then there is a club-spade
- squeeze (or diamond-spade against East if West was 3-4-1-5). However,
- if West has shown up with 3 clubs, 4 hearts, and 2 diamonds, you must
- guess between 4-4-2-3 and 2-4-4-3 distribution (of course, it's easy
- if it's 3-4-3-3.) I think playing for 4-4-2-3 is the percentage play
- given the one club opening bid.
-
- As another comment. I don't play much bridge anymore (most of my play
- was in college before Flight B events); I now play maybe a tournament
- a year. I would expect anybody (or at
- least any younger player) with at least 200-300 masterpoints to realize
- that a squeeze was needed on this hand. (Finding the right defense, i.e.
- not cashing the hearts, or choosing the correct squeeze among the choices
- may be a more difficult play.) Has the general level of play at
- tournaments decreased because of Flight B events?
-
-
- Greg Lawler
-