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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1932.1 | AC, club ruff | CADSYS::GROSS | The bug stops here | Fri Feb 14 1997 11:26 | 15 |
| At trick 6 these cards remain:
S:Q6 H:- D:3 C:AT962
S:K H:KQT D:T87 C:5
RHO started with K9xx of diamonds. How about cashing KS, club to the A, QS.
If RHO follows to all these tricks, sluff the 10H, take the marked diamond
finesse, claim. It can't be so simple. If RHO ruffs the QS you can overruff,
ruff the 10H, ruff a club back to hand, draw the last trump and claim.
Even this seems too simple. What if RHO started with a stiff club? Can't do it
because we need two dummy entries to pull off a trump coup and the AC has to
be one of them. What if RHO started with a stiff spade? Now you need two dummy
entries (AC and heart ruff will do) and a discard for the KS. So the play has
to be: AC, club ruff, heart ruff, run club winners until RHO ruffs, overruff,
draw the last trump and claim.
Dave
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| 1932.2 | Trump coup use DG's line in .-1 if 3-2 clubs | DAVIDB::DMILLER | This bug fix broke what??????? | Mon Feb 17 1997 10:52 | 4 |
| Looks like LHO has JTxxxxx-Axxx-x-K, leaving RHO with x-Jxxx-K9xx-Jxxx
CA (Assume LHO shows out), CT pitching SK if not covered, c-ruff,
H-ruff, run clubs until ruff/overruff.
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| 1932.3 | (from Craig Zastera) | MOIRA::FAIMAN | Wandrer, du M�der, du bist zu Haus | Tue Feb 18 1997 10:58 | 22 |
| >dummy: S- Q65 H- 9 D- QJ3 C- AQT962
>Kotok: S- AK H-KQT4 D- AT872 C- 54
after: 1. HA,9,x,4 2. SJ,5,x,A 3. C5,K,A,x
4. DQ,x,2,x 5. DJ,K,A,Hx 6. ???
Isn't this (now) nearly cold?
Club to dummy's CA.
1. if LHO shows out (e.g. he is 7-4-1-1 or some such)
continue high clubs from dummy, ruffing the CJ whenever it
appears (pitch any major card if RHO plays low)
Your diamond length now matches RHO's. So ruff a heart back
to dummy and run clubs, pitching all your (good) major cards until RHO
ruffs. If he refuses to, you're in dummy at trick 12 with you and RHO
down to only diamonds, so coup him.
2. If both follow, ruff 3rd round of clubs, return to dummy with a
heart ruff and continue clubs as in (1).
I think this line can only fail if RHO started with a stiff club
(meaning LHO flew king from C:KJxx). This seems too remote to worry
about as a practical matter (and I don't see how to make it in this case
anyway).
> CraigZa
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| 1932.4 | (from Alan Kotok) | MOIRA::FAIMAN | Wandrer, du M�der, du bist zu Haus | Tue Feb 18 1997 11:03 | 44 |
| Neil,
Here's my independent solution to the problem Frantz just posted. You can
post this just ahead of the "expert" solution...
Standing in the shower last night I thought of a winning line of play.
After the disastrous (to the defense) lead of HA, Sx, I win in hand. The
following seems evident at the time:
1. S are probably 6-2, since with 7 LHO would have jumped, and with 5 to
the J, she wouldn't have bid at all.
2. Both the C and D finesses are on, or this hand has no prayer.
3. From the double, K9xx of D are on my right. If RHO has all 5 trumps,
there's also no play.
4. The only question is the D and H distribution.
5. Given all that, the only question is what to do with the H ten.
Although I handn't thought this thru all that clearly at the table this
early, I eventually decided that I would play for the HJ to drop, which is
not the best line.
Consider the following:
Cash the other spade honor in hand, which must work.
Take the C finesse, and when the CK appears, it's evident that RHO held 2
spades, 3 hearts, 4 diamonds and 4 clubs. So the chances of the H jack
dropping are not all that good.
Now lead the SQ. If RHO discards (say a H), then I discard the losing HT.
I am now prepared to take the 3 necessary D finesses. If, instead, RHO
ruffs, I overruff, but now need only 2 D finesses.
In that case, I now ruff the HT with the DQ and lead the DJ. If that is
ducked, I can lead the Dx to my AT8 in hand. If covered, I win the A, and
lead a C back to dummy in order to finesse against the 9.
If I was not constantly being hounded by the director to speed up, I might
actually have figured this out at the table. Who knows?
Alan
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| 1932.5 | answer to the 6DX problem (from Alan Frantz) | MOIRA::FAIMAN | Wandrer, du M�der, du bist zu Haus | Tue Feb 18 1997 11:04 | 31 |
| To restate the problem:
Board 9, unfavorable vul, matchpoints against weak opponents:
West (dummy) S- Q65 H- 9 D- QJ3 C- AQT962
East (Kotok) S- AK H-KQT4 D- AT872 C- 54
The contract is 6DX. The opening lead is the HA (thank you), followed by a
switch to the SJ. Plan the play. (As you might guess +1540 will get all the
matchpoints, even beating some 800s and 1100s, while -200 will be absolute
zero.)
This turns out to be a trump coup with very delicate timing. We had taken
the play up to trick 6 as follows: AH; JS to AS; Cx,CK,CA; QD,ducked;
JD,KD,AD,Hx;
It is not hard to read LHO for 6511 at this point, giving RHO 2344 including
the K9xx of trump. The winning line is: C to CQ; C ruff (required to1
shorten trump); SK; HK; H ruff to get to dummy for this three card ending:
Dummy: S- Q H- D- C- xx
LHO: irrelevant RHO: S- H- D- 9x C-x
Declarer: S- H- Q D- T8 C-
The SQ from dummy now pickles RHO. Whether he ruffs now or at the next
trick, he has been neatly trump couped.
Alas, Kotok didn't find it at the table, and -200 got a zero. Maybe I need
to find better partners. . . ;-)
-- Alan
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