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  1. 1. Do you cover?

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[hv=d=e&v=e&n=sq9864haj8dkqj85c&e=sa753hq432d973ca6]266|200|Scoring: MP

bidding went: P P P and now North opens 1. Thereafter:

1-2

3-3NT

4 AP

 

Partner now leads 3, ruffed in dummy and now a low is played. Do you cover?[/hv]

 

Do you play the A?

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bad thing here is that it's dangerous to break the tempo - hypothetically declarer held small spade, winning defense could be spade back from p and that is unethical if tempo was broken

 

i try to learn as much sound plays as i can for the situations where tempo is crucial (some of them are for ethical reasons and some for not making declarer's life easier) and differentiate them from positions over which i can ponder for a minute

 

so i think it's sound to raise the ace here in tempo

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I fully agree that it is dangerous to break tempo now...

 

That's why you should have done that before you played the 6 at trick 1...

 

I think that realizing that is more important than figuring out whether to rise or play low.

 

FWIW, I assume that you play 1/3/5 leads and I would rise, playing declarer for 1525. I would return a diamond in case he happens to be Kx/5/1/5.

 

Rik

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