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Morton's Fork?


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Does the play of this hand represent an example of Morton's Fork? The play at trick 2 looks like it, since it gives West the option of conceding the 12th trick immediately or subsequently. However, every example I have found in the literature involves discarding the threat card (K in this instance) while here it is retained in order to endplay West.

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Does the play of this hand represent an example of Morton's Fork? The play at trick 2 looks like it, since it gives West the option of conceding the 12th trick immediately or subsequently. However, every example I have found in the literature involves discarding the threat card (K in this instance) while here it is retained in order to endplay West.

 

Yes. This is not the classic variant, which involves later discarding the spade K, but it is a variant, and rather a nice one, where west gets strip squeezed if he doesnt take his ace and concedes the contract if he does not.

 

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