27thApril– Board 22. East/West
Game. Dealer East.
Science is a wonderful
thing but sometimes it seems to make things even more complicated.
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North:
S Q 2
H 9 2
D 5 4 3 2
C 10 9 7 5 4
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West:
S J 3
H K J 8 7 6
D A K 10 7
C K 3
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East:
S A 10 7 6 5
H A Q 10 5
D none
C A Q J 10
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South:
S K 9 8 4
H 4 3
D Q J 9 8
6
C 6 2
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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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No
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2H
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No
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4D
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No
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4NT
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No
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5C
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No
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5D
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No
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6H
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No
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7H?
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7H
has the virtue of having 13 easy tricks readily available but I do not know how
it can be bid with any degree of certainty. 4D is a splinter bid agreeing
hearts and the response to RKCB shows three key-cards, obviously the missing
aces. 5D asks about the queen of trumps and 6H shows the possession of that
card but denies an outside king. So West knows that his partner is missing the
king of spades leaving a potential loser in that suit. Indeed if East’s queen
of clubs was the queen of spades then the grand would rely on a finesse – not
good enough odds. It’s the queen of clubs which is the priceless card in the
East hand but it beats me how you can show it.
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