1st November – Board 23: Game All. Dealer South.
It’s always nice to bid to a high-level contract without the associated number of points being present and this is usually achieved with distribution making a significant impact. Any pair who reached a slam on the hand below can consider themselves proud although I think it might be done with a little science and perhaps a little hope.
After the 1S overcall East should bid 2
♠ which shows a high-card raise to 3
♣ or better. (With a more mundane 8-loser hand East should bid 3
♣, which carries no promise of better things to come.) However after the 3
♥ bid a retreat to 3NT looks normal which West is likely to remove to 4
♣, forcing of course because you never take a game contract out into a part score. East will naturally now cue-bid the spade ace and that should be enough to commit West to the slam. Initially it might look as if declarer might need to ruff out the hearts but the welcome appearance of the king at the earliest possible stage makes the play trivial – the drawing trumps and claiming kind!
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