4th October – Board 4: Game All. Dealer West.
I don’t know how many pairs
reached the good 6♠ on the hand shown below but I believe the bidding set out
to be not unreasonable. I just wished that West held the diamond king in
addition to all his goodies because then his first response would be 4♥ – a
splinter in agreement of spades of course – and then RKCB would establish that
all the main players were present and 5♦ would enquire about the trump queen.
West would reply with 6♦ showing both the queen of trumps and the diamond king
by which time he would have shown all his high cards plus a singleton heart,
leaving East to bid the cold grand slam.
There should be no real problem in the play of 6♠ with trumps behaving nicely and you do not even need the king of diamonds to be well placed. On a trump lead, say, you would win in dummy, play ace of hearts and ruff a heart, enter the closed hand with the king of clubs and ruff another heart. Trumps could then be drawn followed by the ace of clubs and the ten, throwing a low diamond from hand. South would win but now you have twelve tricks via five trumps, one heart plus two heart ruffs, the ace of diamonds and three clubs.
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