Tricky 6C to paly from the India Pakistan Match in BFAME 2017
IND-PAK-6Clubs
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I feel as long as one doesn’t try to make all 13 it’s a lock.
Trick 3: ruff a heart . trick 4: club 10. Trick 5:Diamond to hand. pull trumps. lose a heart.
The tricky part is when South shows out on the second club.
From the bidding, one should infer that North who bid 3H in the third round of bidding is long in Spades. So, if he is the one with 3 clubs, it would be a mistake to try to cross in diamonds, the absence of a Lightner double not withstanding. If he was 5-5-0-3, he would be able to ruff and cash a Heart. So, one needs the courage of the conviction to cross to the table by ruffing Spades in the third round!
If South has the long club, crossing with D is ok.
Ya. Thanks.
As an aside to the Admins. 1. A like button. 2. Kindly explain how to transpose hands here. Say for example how Mr. Prabhakar did it. That looks perfect.
Another point. At the table North covered the CJ. What if he hadn’t covered. So was it better to play a small one towards hand and finessing? at the second trick. Either way all one could be sure of was that the trumps are 2/2 or 3/1. Besides if one places spade length with North then who knows South could be void in it 🙂
The free software I used can be downloaded from:
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Once again, it will be useful if pbn format can be posted here.
It was a mistake for North to cover the CJ. He could have crashed partner’s Q or god forbid, the Ace!
Playing the J is better because you are not dead (but still may be), after an adverse 4-0 break.
The point about Spade length with North is relevant even during the bidding. How will you evaluate the West hand for a Club contract, given the inference about the 3H call by North?
South should have led from his “now” presumed wretched Diamond suit. That would have made East pause longer.
BTW I was intrigued by the hand so I traced it via BBO. And what do I see? Your teammate in the OR sitting South has doubled the opponents in the same contract. Kindly decipher that for us. And ya, kudos to North in the OR not covering the CJ.
Your teammate in the OR sitting South has doubled the opponents in the same contract.
Perhaps a new term should enter the bridge terminology-” reverse Lightner” 😉