lamford Posted July 31, 2015 Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 [hv=pc=n&s=sa9764hak543dqt9c&n=sj85hjt87dj2caj52&d=n&v=0&b=1&a=p1n(12-14)2c(Landy)p2hp3hp4hppp]266|200[/hv]IMPs, teams of 4. Say West leads a small club against your 4H contract. How would you play? Your opponents are strong but not necessarily world-beaters. This arose from a ruling and a suggestion by a strong player of a potentially better alternative line. I am still engrossed in analysing it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nige1 Posted July 31, 2015 Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 [hv=pc=n&e=sK43hQ92dA87cKT863&s=sa9764hak543dqt9c&n=sj85hjt87dj2caj52&d=n&v=0&b=1&a=p1n(12-14)2c(Landy)p2hp3hp4hppp&p=c3]400|300| Lamford asks "MPs, teams of 4. Say West leads a small club against your 4H contract. How would you play? Your opponents are strong but not necessarily world-beaters. This arose from a ruling and a suggestion by a strong player of a potentially better alternative line. I am still engrossed in analysing it!" East is on lead. On a small ♣ lead, against a favourable layout like this, Gib can make his game. Discard a ♠ and win RHO's ♣ honour with ♣A. Run ♥J . Play on ♦s.[/hv][hv=pc=n&e=sKT2hQ92dA87cKT83&s=sa9764hak543dqt9c&n=sj85hjt87dj2caj52&d=n&v=0&b=1&a=p1n(12-14)2c(Landy)p2hp3hp4hppp&p=c3]400|300| An alternative favourable layout -- on a small ♣ lead -- as far as Gib is concerned :)[/hv] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamford Posted July 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 Well spotted, Nigel, that East is on lead. On your layout, 4H by North cannot be beaten after the low club lead, but you still need to guess the play. In particular you must not play a second round of hearts. Also you have to run the third club, and not play the jack on the second round. However, a spade or diamond (or a top club) beats your layout. On the second layout a low spade lead beats you. And you also have to guess the play as a second round of hearts is fatal, and you have to duck the spade switch by East and play for split diamond honours and West not having the third spade. The main question is whether to play for hearts 2-2. I thought a plausible line was to draw trumps via a finesse and then play a spade to the eight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finch Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 The original thread which spawned this problem didn't specify the opening lead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamford Posted August 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 The original thread which spawned this problem didn't specify the opening leadIndeed. We were not told it; nor am I aware of either the opposing layout or declarer's line. In a sense a club lead is a Greek gift, giving the chance to take a trump finesse immediately, but the opponents would need second sight if they led a club when the trump finesse was losing and not when it was winning. However, for the opponents to lead a spade when that beats the contract and not otherwise is also second sight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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