SpadeHeart 
Chichester Bridge Club
 DiamondClub
0 0 0 0 0 0
Pages viewed in 2023
Trying to find the Minutes of our Meetings? Who is on the Committee? When and where does play start?

Press the information button above for the answer to all of these.

Release 2.19q
Thursday May 30th - Board 21
Thursday May 30th - Board 21

East plays in 4S, after North opened with a weak 2H (6-9 points and 6 hearts). 

 

South leads the HJ, to HK and HA. (The HK is played to preserve the HQ as an entry to hand.) 
North returns a trump which Declarer wins.

 

Declarer can see a heart and a club loser so must keep to 1 diamond loser if he is to make his contract. He cashes the HQ, eliminating hearts, and leads the C6, hoping to sneak a club trick and avoid a club loser.

 

But South wins the CA and returns a trump. Declarer wins in Dummy, and now knows that North had 2 spades and 6 hearts to the ace, and has so far shown 5 points. Also, all trumps have been drawn. So he can cash 2 top clubs and lead the last one, to check how many clubs North has.

 

North plays the CJ on the third round and discards a heart on the fourth round, which Declarer ruffs. So North has shown he has only 2 diamonds and has shown 6 points so far. North is unlikely to have the DA (giving him 10 points), and being vulnerable and with a 6-3-2-2 distribution, is unlikely not to have the DQ (without which he would have only 6 points).

 

So Declarer assumes North has DQx. So a diamond to the DK and a small diamond back will defeat the defence,

 

Either North wins and gives a ruff and discard or South overtakes the DQ with the DA and has to concede the last 2 tricks.