8th October – Board 11. Love All. Dealer
South.
Christmas came early for
those people sitting East last Thursday when the most unexpected thing
happened…
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North:
S 8 5
H 7 5 3 2
D Q J 9 3
C 10 4 3
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West:
S none
H K J 10 6
D A K 7 6 5
C Q 9 8 7
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East:
S K Q J 10 6 2
H A 8 4
D 10 4 2
C 2
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South:
S A 9 7 4
3
H Q 9
D 8
C A K J 6
5
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West
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North
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East
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South
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1S
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Dbl
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End
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Strangely
enough the only game East/West can make is 4S but that is hard to reach in view
of South’s opening! The correct lead for these low-level doubles is a trump but
West can hardly be blamed on this particular occasion for failing to come up
trumps so to speak and I suppose the natural defence is to lead the diamond
king – asking for count – and to switch to a low club. The most likely upshot of
all this is that declarer will find himself three down and conceding a penalty
of 500 but even two down would provide a healthy score for East/West. Of course
South might remove himself to 2C which should be doubled by West and which
would also provide a fruitful score, although much more fraught I dare say.
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