eagles123 Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 [hv=pc=n&s=sk8hajt76543d96c8&w=saqjt3hdqj732c764&n=s652hq2dkt854cqjt&e=s974hk98dacak9532]399|300[/hv] we ended in 6S by East. It says you can make it DD... how do u make on best defence?Thanks, Eagles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandakh Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 Can you not just take the spade and diamond finesses and then give up a club? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 Not sure what best defence is. On a diamond lead for example: A♦spade to 10A♠Q♦ if N covers you can simply ruff, ruff a heart, draw the trump and duck a club, if he doesn't, simply duck a club while you have a trump in dummy. On a heart lead you can play as above because N doesn't have a 3rd heart so you can afford to run yourself out of trumps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helene_t Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 (edited) oops two fellow posters said the same while I was writing :) you win the opening lead and play ♦A. Now you take the spade finese and draw one more trump (felling the ♠K) but don't draw the last trump. Now you take a ruffing finese by playing the ♦Q. If it is not covered you discard a heart. If it is covered you ruff and go back to your hand by ruffing a heart. You now concede a club trick. You have five spade tricks, five heart tricks and ♦A. The twelth trick is either ♦Q (if it was not covered) or a diamond ruff (if it was covered). Note that North can't take a second defensive trick after we give him a club trick. If he covered ♦Q our ♦J guards the diamonds, otherwise we still have a trump in dummy. Edited July 16, 2013 by helene_t Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 curious, I played ♦Q before drawing the second round of trumps, it doesn't matter much but it seemed more natural to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 curious, I played ♦Q before drawing the second round of trumps, it doesn't matter much but it seemed more natural to me.I was playing double dummy, doesn't really matter but a bit embarrassing if diamonds 6-1 and you get overruffed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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