hrothgar Posted July 15, 2003 Report Share Posted July 15, 2003 Board 7:All vulnerable.Dealer: South. A8762 AKQ T32 745 QJT94542 JT9QJ9864 K75932 K5 K3 8763 A AQJT86 Board 7 featured another slam, this time a very good6c. Amazingly the naturalists were closer than thescientists in this board but they didn't make it. The scientists would never have reached 6c afterSartaj decided his hand was not worth a 15+ clubopening. Open Room: Luis Fred Ana Inquiry------------------------------- 1cp 1s p 2cp 2h p 4hp 5c p pp ------------------------------- The natural bidders started with the normal three bids, Fred's second bid is ackward he has no club support, nodiamond stopper for nt and his spades are not rebidablehis 2h choice looked very sensible. Now Inquiry has a very good hand with 4 cards in support for h, the sKan excellent club suit and diamonds controlled, his 4hbid seems to be an underbid. Fred corrected that to 5cand now there's a lot to be said about a 6c bid fromSouth but Inquiry passed again. The cK was onside sothey quickly claimed 12 tricks. Closed Room: Malucy Marston Skystne Sartaj-------------------------------- 2cp 2s p 4sp p p -------------------------------- 2c showed 9-14 and 6+ clubs, maybe a hand with 5 losersand excellent 14 HCP should be upgraded to an 1c opening, hadSartaj opened 1c they would have surely reached 6c for another slam swing, over Masrton 2s bid Sartaj closed theproceedings with 4s. Not a good show by the scientific pairon this board. Even with trumps 5-1 Marston could play 4ssafely cashing one trump and then playing on clubs east wasable to ruff the club and remove dummy's last trump but Marstonstill had the diamond ace so he was in control. +620 for noswing. Board 8.Nobody Vul.Dealer North. A985 K95 QJ7 AQ5KJ6 QT32J763 AQ2T3 K865KT92 84 74 T84 A942 J763 Board 8 featured a normal 1nt contract, declarerstook a different line but it was up to west to defeat the contract. Both wests failed and theboard was a push. Open Room: Luis Fred Ana Inquiry------------------------------- 1n p pp ------------------------------- Against the normal 1nt contract Ana lead the spade2 (4th best). East played the K and Fred took the A.He misguessed which minor suit to attack first byplaying the cA and a low club to the J. East tookthe cK and exited with the cT stablishing the c9 forthe defense on this third club east was forced to discard the h2. Now declarer played the dQ covered to the A and a spade. West took the sJ and cashed the 4th club east discarding a diamond. Now west didn't read the position at all and played a diamond letting Fred claim 9 tricks via 4 diamonds, 1 spade and 2 clubs. West got confused by the h2 discard but the play was evident and he should have figured out the position. +90 for the naturalists. Closed Room: Malucy Marston Skystne Sartaj-------------------------------- 1c p 1sp 1n p pp -------------------------------- 1c was strong and 1s showed any hand with 0-5 HCP.Skystone produced the same s2 lead west playing the K anddeclarer taking the Ace. Marston started diamonds playing thedJ not covered. Then he played the dQ ducking east K the tenfalling, not having entries to dummy this was a very neat play to ensure 3 diamond tricks if diamonds are 3-3 or as in the current layout. East exited with a diamond Marstonfinessing the 9 west discarding a heart. He cashed the dA west discarding a club. He finessed in clubsand played the club Ace exiting with a spade. West didn't overtake his pd ST so east was enplayed at the end and hadto concede a heart. West can easily overtake the sT with theJ, cash the cK and exit with a heart to defeat the contractbut he didn't. No swing. Board 9:EW Vulnerable.North dealer. KQJ4 AJT2 J82 A2983 A762KQ876 95454 AK97KJT 83 T5 3 QT63 Q97654 In this board both south players made north play3c in a transfer sequence after north showed astrong nt hand. There's something to be said about playing 1nt with diamonds being a suit thatcan provide some nt tricks if clubs are wronganyway it doesn't seem to logical to pretent toplay 1nt with the south hand and the 3c contractis normal. Open Room: Luis Fred Ana Inquiry------------------------------- 1n p 2sp 3c p pp ------------------------------- 2s was a transfer to clubs and 3c denied interestin that suit. The defense started with three roundsof diamonds, west ruffing and west then played aspade to the A. The natural club trick was thesetting trick. -50 for the scientists. Closed Room: Malucy Marston Skystne Sartaj-------------------------------- 1c p 1sp 1n p 2sp 3c p pp -------------------------------- The scientists duplicated the contract taking more bidsto reach it as indicated by their religion. 1c was strongand 1s showed 0-5, 2s showed clubs and 3c showed a minimumhand. NothingThe defense took the same 5 tricks in different order fordown 1. No swing. Board 10.All vulnerable.Dealer East. 98 T75432 T85 J8AJT72 K643AK86 JKJ62 AQ7- KT764 Q5 Q9 943 AQ9532 Board 10 is a cold 6s slam for EW, the scientists got thereafter a precise sequence, the naturalists jumped to vaccumbidding 6s in 2 bids. The safe line took 13 tricks whilea more exotic approach brougth 12 tricks and some murmurs. Open Room: Luis Fred Ana Inquiry------------------------------- 1s p1n p 2h p2s p 3d p3h p 4c p4d p 5c p6s p p p ------------------------------- 1s was 10-14 4+ spades. West started a relay sequence.2h showed more clubs than spades. 3d showed 4-1-3-5, 4cshowed 4 controls and 5c showed the cK, sK, dA and deniedthe sQ. With a clear picture of the hand West bid the spade slam. Inquiry lead the cA ruffed and declarer playedspades from the top for all the tricks. -1460. Closed Room: Malucy Marston Skystne Sartaj-------------------------------- 1c p1s p 2s p6s p p p -------------------------------- The naturalists used less than half the bids the scientists usedand showed a rather poor approach for slam bidding. Malucy's jumpto 6s could have been either down 1 or making 7 with many posibleeast hands. This kind of sequences clearly show the advantage ofa relay system since in the other room EW knew exactly that theywere missing the trump queen for 7 after investigating if 6 wasa good proposition. Marson lead the diamond 5 won by the Ace. Declarer played the SKSartaj falsecarding with the Q declarer played a heart to the aceand ruffed a heart with the S3. He ruffed a club and tried to ruff another spade with the s4 but Sartaj overruffued. A very strange line of play that could have lead to disaster haddiamonds be 5-1 with Marston ruffing. Declarer should play 2trumps and can't be prevented from ruffing 2 hearts in dummyfor 12 tricks (4s+4d+2h+2 ruffs). -1430 and one well deservedimp for Sartaj. Scientists 40-0. Board 11.Nobody Vul.Dealer: South. QT J AQ74 AKQ97298762 AJ547632 T9854KJ6 8J T83 K3 AKQ T9532 654 Yet another slam in this match but this one doesn'tseem to be as good as the previous ones depending onthe diamond finesse to succeed. Open Room: Luis Fred Ana Inquiry------------------------------- pp 1c p 1dp 3h p 3np p p------------------------------- Inquiry's pass looks very conservative with 12 HCP without anyqueens or jacks, had he opened the bidding Fred may have drivento slam with his 4 losers hand. The 3h splinter caused seriousdamage to the evaluation of Inquiry's hand and he signed off in3nt. Declarer refused to double finesse in diamonds so he tookonly 11 tricks for +460. Closed Room: Malucy Marston Skystne Sartaj-------------------------------- 1Np 2c p 2dp 3d p 3sp 4c p 5dp p p -------------------------------- Sartaj, of course opened the bidding with 1nt 11-14 no 4M. They relayedand bid a keycard in diamonds signing off in 5d after discovering that2 key cards were missing. A normal auction to the normal 5d game. Sartaje made 12 tricks for -420 losing 1 imp.So de naturalists finally scored: 40-1. Board 12:NS vulnerable.Dealer: West. AJ54 J6 QT3 QJ5498 K7632K42 QT85AJ82 765KT32 9 QT A973 K94 A876 In this board both EW pairs got into trouble but at least they were NV. The naturalists took profit doubling 1nt while the scientists didn'tafford to double the inferior 2h contract. Open Room: Luis Fred Ana Inquiry-------------------------------1d p 1s p1n p p xp p p ------------------------------- 1d showed 10-14 and no 4M, 1s was a negative relay, 1n showed a balanced weak nt without 4M.Inquiry reopened sensibly with a double and Fred passed that for profit.Fred hit the good lead of a low club, declarer ducked the Ace and took the 2nd club with the K.Now he played the hK ducked and a heart to the J and Q also ducked. There's wasn't a good wayto avoid a 2 trick set. -300. Closed Room: Malucy Marston Skystne Sartaj--------------------------------1d p 1s x1n x 2h pp p-------------------------------- Sartaj's double showed hearts and clubs, Marston doubled 1nt to show good values and now it seemedlike EW got into trouble but Skystone bid a very brave 2h knowing hearts were on his right andSartaj refused to double that contract. 2h doubled wouldn't have been nice for declarer since heseems to take only 5 tricks but after escaping for 2h undoubled who can blame the 2h bid?Sartaj lead his lowest diamond Skystone raising with the A to play a spade to the king. He thenexited with a diamond to south's king, he cashed the cA and played a diamond to north's Q he playedthe hJ ducked to the K, declarer discarded a spade in the cK and tried to cash the dJ ruffed withthe 6 and overrufed with the T. Declarer exited with a spade and north didn't have a trump so hecouldn't prevent declarer from ruffing a spade in dummy. Declarer took 6 tricks for -100. Bothdeclarer and South plays can be criticized under microscopes and tweezers but at the table weknow things are different. That was 5 imps to the naturalists 40-6. So the first half of the match ended with a 40-6 huge advantage for the scientists, due to aslam missed by the naturalists, a bad declarer job by a naturalist at 3nt and an unlucky 3ndown 2 that the scientists accident in the middle bid to a cold 5d game. Many interesting handswith only 2 dull boards, all the other hands featured very interesting aspects both in thebidding and the play with both sides missing some chances to score more imps. A very excitingfirst half. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted July 16, 2003 Report Share Posted July 16, 2003 Board 7:Luis Fred Ana Inquiry------------------------------- 1cp 1s p 2cp 2h p 4hp 5c p pp ------------------------------- The natural bidders started with the normal three bids, Fred's second bid is ackward he has no club support, nodiamond stopper for nt and his spades are not rebidablehis 2h choice looked very sensible. Now Inquiry has a very good hand with 4 cards in support for h, the sKan excellent club suit and diamonds controlled, his 4hbid seems to be an underbid. Fred corrected that to 5cand now there's a lot to be said about a 6c bid fromSouth but Inquiry passed again. The cK was onside sothey quickly claimed 12 tricks. I think perhaps the analysis misses that 2H was not only not forcing, it wasn't really invintational (at least I don't think so in BBO Advanced... this hand was discussed elsewhere and all the 2/1 players were bidding 2D with Fred's hand. Thus, I am not so sure that a leap to 4HEARTS is an underbid, since I pass with a minumum and raise to 3 with a maximum, my jump showed even more. Board 10. While my teammates auction was not "scientific" it was both equally effective, and at least had some logic behind it. I mayself, would not have bid it that way... after 2S, plenty of time for cue-bidding, but there is often something to be said for not giving anything away in the auction. Board 11.Nobody Vul.Dealer: South. QT J AQ74 AKQ97298762 AJ547632 T9854KJ6 8J T83 K3 AKQ T9532 654 This hand is interesting to play in 3NT after a heart lead. Give it some thought. imagine 4-0 clubs and spade ace with LUIS. Board 12: Naturalist punish moscito 1NTX. :-) So the first half of the match ended with a 40-6 huge advantage for the scientists, due to aslam missed by the naturalists, a bad declarer job by a naturalist at 3nt and an unlucky 3ndown 2 that the scientists accident in the middle bid to a cold 5d game. Many interesting handswith only 2 dull boards, all the other hands featured very interesting aspects both in thebidding and the play with both sides missing some chances to score more imps. A very excitingfirst half. The first half ended with a huge lead for the moscito team due primarily due to poor play, and an excellent slam bid by Luis and Ana missed at the other table. Let's examine. Board 1 4S vs 3NT... Scientist should lose an imp or two, but was pushBoard 2. 4Hx-1 vs 3C, 4H's (contrary to analysis is first thread has no play). Inquiry overbid perhaps. Board 3. 3NT at both tables, poor PLAY... by naturalist decl.Board 4. This 5D is not cold, in fact should be down two on a clear heart lead for a push, and down one on the actual line for small plus. Somehow, this 4-3 fit is not so great. The 4-2 spade fit makes 4S's, and the 6-3 club fit also makes.... Not a great bidding victory for either system, but the characterization that 5D is cold is wrong. Looking at the bidding, down two seems automatic.. and even without a heart lead down one is easy to achieve. The defense clearly slipped. Board 5. Excellent slam by moscito pair. Very nice bidding. The naturalist lost their way, 4H over 3H seems anti-systemic too me. 4D or serious 3NT both seem clear to me. Board 6. An aggressive decision to bid 3NT got the naturalist one trick too high. Small loss.Board 7. 6C is 50%, neither side bid it.Board 8. 1NT made at both tablesBoard 9. 3C dowon one at bothBoard 10. 6S at both tablesBoard 11. 3NT versus 5DBoard 12. 1NTx versus part score... good bidding by naturalist. So on these hands, the one standout hand for mosquito on bidding was the 6H hand on board 4. The naturalist started on the way to slam, and I think, systemically they SHOULD have been able to bid it, but certainly the auction was automatic with moscito. The 6S auction on board 10 also hinted at a weakness in the slam bidding of the naturalist pair in the open room. Board 4 was no bidding victory for either pair, and in fact, was quite poor. Board 2 & 6 show aggressive bidding by naturalist, getting one too high each time. Board 1, 3 and 5 showed bad play by the naturalist, leading to loss of imps (on 1) and huge wins for the scientist (3 and 5). There maybe some question as to what the best contract is on board 11... 3NT, 5D, or 6D. It turns out with 3D to the KJx in teh hand that had it, 6D makes, in the other hand, 5D is down. I leave that to the theorist... I defended my auction on that hand elsewhere, so will not do so here again, but lookiing at the hands, I think maybe 3NT is the best contract. All is all, not much here to show superiority of the bidding system that won, but rather, that the moscito players played much better bridge than the naturalist. The naturalist deserved to be trailing huge based upon their play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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