Sunday, June 7, 2009
Yeah. That's your new Bridge exco.
Found this on RJ's Bridge noticeboard. Bidding goes N pass, E 1C, S 1D, W 2C, N 3D, all pass.West leads the three clubs and E cashes the King then the Ace of clubs, W following with the 2. It is also given the E has a singleton diamond, W starting with two.
You have 8 tops. 6 diamonds and two hearts, after a sure-fail finnese because if it makes then there's nothing more to this deal. You can't get your 9th with a ruff. On the surface it seems you have two options. Guess the spade layout, or arrange for an endplay of E. The endplay seems impossible, so we shall ignore it.
Let's assume EW plays 3rd/5th best. W's choice of clubs indicates that he started with 6, since he cannot support with 4. If that's so, E must have 3 and he will definitely have a 5carded major which doesn't seem right. So we can conclude that EW play 4th best leads. Also, it can be said that the club honours were split Q with W and AKJ with E. E denies the Q by his King-Ace play and if W has the J he'd likely lead the Q from QJxxx.
So, we should be guessing the spade layout based on points. E has 8points in clubs, none in diamonds and hearts. He could have the Ace or the AQ of spades, giving him 12 or 14points. However if he had the Queen only, then he would not have sufficient HCP to open.
Therefore we should play E for having the A only, because if he has the AQ then the contract will always go down.
Right. Some ways to infer about opponents' cards when you're declaring :)
hongaik madesix at 5:51 PM
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Found this on RJ's Bridge noticeboard. Bidding goes N pass, E 1C, S 1D, W 2C, N 3D, all pass.