29th September – Board 15: North/South Vul. Dealer South.
Sometimes the brain gets distracted from taking the right approach because we are so used to following a certain path, and that was certainly the case on the featured hand where most pairs failed to make their no-trump game because they didn’t look far enough ahead.
West
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North
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East
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South
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No
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No
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No
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1S
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No
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2H
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No
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2S
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No
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2NT
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No
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3NT
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End
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I’m not sure that the above bidding is the route that I would have followed but the game is sound enough and it doesn’t really matter whether it is played by West or East. On a club lead (say) it looks tempting to play on spades hoping for a kindly break, but the sad reality is that when that suit doesn’t behave there are five losers in one spade, two diamonds and two clubs. If the spades are breaking they can be kept to later and the suit that should be attacked from the start is diamonds. When the nine obligingly falls at an early stage declarer can rack up the contract by making three spades, two hearts two diamonds and two clubs.
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