Walddk Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 [hv=d=s&v=n&n=sj9hk5d10632caqj85&s=saq1086532hj63dac2]133|200|Scoring: IMPS: 4SLead: DK[/hv] Here is a deal from real life. We are at Ostend in Belgium for the European Championships 1965. South was the legendary Giorgio Belladonna from Italy. You are in 4♠ with no interference. Looks very promising, doesn't it? At least 7 trump tricks and 2 aces. Plenty of chances for the 10th trick. Is there a 100% line that will see you home no matter how the layout is? Roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joker_gib Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 I know this deal and will give an indication ! This is a great and not intuitive play ! <_< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pclayton Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 I've seen the hand before (I think). My answer hidden: Play a club to the Ace and play a heart toward the Jxx!. If RHO flies with an honor, you make 2 heart tricks by force. If LHO wins, he can't attack trump. Either way, you end up with 7♠, two aces and a ♥ or ♥ ruff. By the way if RHO does rise with the Q, you need to play the Q♠ out of hand first (NOT ♠A, ♠), in case RHO has ♠Kxx and a doubleton ♥. Great hand that I had forgotten about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 Plenty of chances for the 10th trick. Is there a 100% line that will see you home no matter how the layout is? No, there isn't a 100% line that makes regardless of opponents distribution.. The idden line is best, but imagine the hidden holding... Best line, low to club ACE, then low towards the heart Jack. Plan is to set up heart or ruff one. This can be spoiled by, ..... you lead club, west ruffs, lead heart to queen, they take heart ace, and EAST leads yet another club.... This loses to WEST with a hand with S-Kx (x)H-xx(x)D-xxxxx(x)C-void Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flytoox Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 the problem is not do it here, but recongnize it at the table. This applies to most declarer problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walddk Posted February 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 No, there isn't a 100% line that makes regardless of opponents distribution Correct, there is a 99.5% line. The rest of you who want to try can take it from there. Roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junyi_zhu Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 [hv=d=s&v=n&n=sj9hk5d10632caqj85&s=saq1086532hj63dac2]133|200|Scoring: IMPS: 4SLead: DK[/hv] Here is a deal from real life. We are at Ostend in Belgium for the European Championships 1965. South was the legendary Giorgio Belladonna from Italy. You are in 4♠ with no interference. Looks very promising, doesn't it? At least 7 trump tricks and 2 aces. Plenty of chances for the 10th trick. Is there a 100% line that will see you home no matter how the layout is? Roland A similar hand was played by one of the blueteam stars. I first saw it when I was a teenager, reading Forquet's Italian blueteam and bridge, unable to go to sleep that night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimG Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 (edited) hmm, how do you delete a post? Edited February 18, 2005 by TimG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flame Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 Nice, i wasnt even close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jlall Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 How do you do hidden posts and how do you read them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 How do you do hidden posts and how do you read them?We you click add a post, their is a row of buttons above the area where you type your message. One of the buttons is labelled hidden. If you click that button, it puts the code (HIDDEN) into the text (but with square brackets not normal parenthasis). After you get the hidden command, everything you type (except oddly card symbols) will be hidden (white text on white background). When you finish typing what you want hidden, press the hidden button again, and it will add the text (/hidden). When the message is posted, all between the two hiddens is hidden.. .so something that looks like this will produce the following ---->(Hidden) There is hidden text between arrows (/hidden) <---------- ------> Did you find this hidden text? <----------- To "see" the hidden text, click your mouse and drag over the words (or copy and paste entire message into something like word). Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke warm Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 i'm with fly on this, it's one thing seeing how to do it here, it's another at the table... a lot of people say they'd take the line belladonna took... maybe they would have... i can say i didn't see it, but i can also say that i'm now aware of this position... so thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerardo Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 About hidden messages and card symbols: There are colored card symbols and black ones. Use the black ones in a hidden message (which is just normal text with foreground color changed from black to background color). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherdano Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 the problem is not do it here, but recongnize it at the table. This applies to most declarer problem. Indeed. While I solved this one rather quickly, I am pretty sure that at the table I would have been too busy figuring out which guesses to make (and complaining about my bad luck if all of them were wrong). Arend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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