10th November – Board 9. East/West Game.
Dealer North.
Just because you have a
finesse position doesn’t mean you have to take it and declarer was a little
lucky on the featured hand because of the friendly lie of the cards.
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North:
S K 10 5 4
H A 10 5 3
D A Q
C K 8 7
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West:
S J 9 6 3 2
H Q 8 7
D K
C A 6 4 2
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East:
S 8
H K 9 6 4 2
D 7 4 3
C Q J 5 3
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South:
S A Q 7
H J
D J 10 9 8
6 5 2
C 10 9
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West
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North
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East
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South
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1H
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No
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2D
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No
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2NT
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No
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3D
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No
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3NT
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End
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Once
South has bid at the two-level 2NT is game forcing and 3NT becomes the likely
contract. (Although I am not sure that 5D isn’t better.) In any event how do
you play 3NT on the lead of the C3 when West wins the ace and returns the C2?
If you can assume that the defenders are being honest to their system and that
the clubs are breaking evenly then it must be wrong to cross to dummy with a
spade and take a diamond finesse. Why? Well if West has Kxx in diamonds the
suit cannot be established and if East has Kxx then he should duck the queen
and once again the suit is blocked out. Much better to play diamonds from the
top for even if the queen is allowed to win there are still two entries to
dummy to set up the suit. As you can see the king falls singleton and declarer
gets away with it!
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