CSGibson Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 [hv=pc=n&s=sakq32h2da432ca32&w=s54hkjt98d5c98765&n=sjt6ha6543dkq6cj4&e=s987hq7djt987ckqt]399|300[/hv] Someone e-mailed me this fun problem. N-S to make 6 spades on a heart lead. FWIW, I had to think about this for a little while looking at all the hands before the solution presented itself. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhm Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 I do not know why, but somehow I find dummy reversals easy to overlook.Nice problem Rainer Herrmann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antrax Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 Is that what it is? I got stuck if E pitches one ♦ and one ♣ and the situation seemed pretty hopeless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 I couldn't get the dummy reversal to work, I found myself an entry to N short, can you give it card by card please (swap the ♠ Q and 6 and it's trivial). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helene_t Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 Doesn't E get squeezed on the third heart ruff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antrax Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 helene, probably, but I don't see how we continue if he pitches a small card in each minor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 I think you gotta play a second diamond trick to dummy quickly forcing west to ruff early if he wants to, if he does cross ruff high after scoring ♠6 on a club ruff from dummy (before east can pitch) if he doesn't ruff it its time to ruff hearts high on hand, eventually east gets squeezed, either he keeps 4 diamonds and ♠6 is scored ruffing one, or he does not, and dummýs club is pithed on the 4th diamond whil east ruffs with his trump trick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antrax Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 Am I being amazingly dense? After ruffing three hearts high and ruffing the fourth diamond, N has ♥x ♣Jx, E has ♠x ♣KQ, S has ♣Axx and W has whatever. How do you score two more tricks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 you ruff 4 hearts in hand first one low? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhm Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 Doesn't E get squeezed on the third heart ruff?Not yet.Try what is called in squeeze terms a "losing squeeze card" Rainer Herrmann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nige1 Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 [hv=pc=n&s=sa6543h6da543ca43&w=sQThkQjt9dQc98765&n=skj2ha5432skj2cT2&e=s987h87dt9876ckqj]399|300| CSGibson writes "Someone e-mailed me this fun problem. N-S to make 6 spades on a heart lead. FWIW, I had to think about this for a little while looking at all the hands before the solution presented itself." Thank you CSGibson :) Simplified diagram on the left. Rainer is right again... :) Dummy reversal. Then West's ♥ operates a fratricidal squeeze. East may ask West why he didn't lead a passive ♣ :)[/hv] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilKing Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 Nice hand - I thought it would end up as a Ottlikesque knockout squeeze, but you stumble into a standard dummy reversal and suicide squeeze. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 you ruff 4 hearts in hand first one low?And what are your 5 entries to the short spades hand to do this and draw trumps ? Please do this trick by trick so we can see what you're thinking. Your line allowing W to ruff the losing diamond looks promising so far but I can see some issues with the timing (you need to carefully avoid E pitching his last diamond before you cash the A, and also leaving yourself in a situation where you have ♠ Q3 left with 2 hearts to ruff and E with 98 so he can ruff the 4th and 5th). The way I think it works is as follows, you have to cash the diamonds early. 8♥-A-7-2K♦-7-2-53♥-Q-2♠-93♦-4♠-6-85♣-4-10-A3♠-5-10-7Q♦-9-4-6♣4♥-10♦-3♠-10A♦-7♣-J♣-J Now you can ruff a club low and high crossruff the rest. Not sure if cashing K♦ early kiboshes the contract if W doesn't ruff the second round though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manudude03 Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 Win the ace, ruff a heart, diamond to the king, ruff a heart high, diamond to the queen (it doesn't help West to ruff- allows you to draw 1 round of trumps and arrange a high cross-ruff or the ability to draw trumps if East ruffs a heart), ruff a heart high, 3 rounds of trumps ending in dummy (throwing a club). Now play the last heart which squeezes West in the minors. edit: that doesn't work, apparently West can win and return a club to beat the contract. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilKing Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 8♥-A-7-2K♦-7-2-53♥-Q-2♠-93♦-4♠-6-8 West pitches instead of ruffing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 West pitches instead of ruffing.Which is what I said I thought would happen at the bottom of my post, but PLEASE can somebody put something out card by card as I'm seeing a lot of people glibly saying what you do, and I found defences to beat them when I tried them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilKing Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 Which is what I said I thought would happen at the bottom of my post, but PLEASE can somebody put something out card by card as I'm seeing a lot of people glibly saying what you do, and I found defences to beat them when I tried them. Trick 2, ruff a heart Many variants now, but the key is just to extract both of West's trumps, before executing partial reversal and suicide squeeze. But simplest: Tricks three and four: ace and another trump5: ruff a heart6: diamond7: heart ruff8: diamond9: draw trump10: lead your heart loser - East raises the white flag 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 Trick 2, ruff a heart Many variants now, but the key is just to extract both of West's trumps, before executing partial reversal and suicide squeeze. But simplest: Tricks three and four: ace and another trump5: ruff a heart6: diamond7: heart ruff8: diamond9: draw trump10: lead your heart loser - East raises the white flagThis works, I was obsessed with Fluffy's idea of leading up to the diamond and allowing W to ruff the loser, you don't need to mess with any of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 yeah I was obsessed as well, it looks like without ♣J there is no wa to make the contract. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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