pescetom Posted January 27, 2022 Report Share Posted January 27, 2022 Hand #12 in tuesday's national simultaneous tournament in Italy allowed declarer to reach this elegant finish after winning 10 tricks: [hv=pc=n&s=sha9dc8&w=sq9hdcj&n=s7hd97c&e=shjt5dc]320|240[/hv] The contract is 6♥ by South, which makes when he now plays from dummy. Is this a Trump Coup, or does it have some other name? I ask because the descriptions I see say "To execute a trump coup, declarer must have exactly the same number of trumps as the defender" or similar.Here we have one less, although the effect is the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AL78 Posted January 27, 2022 Report Share Posted January 27, 2022 It looks like a combination of a trump coup and an endplay. If East ruffs high, declarer discard from hand and East is endplayed. If East ruffs low, declarer overruffs cheaply and plays a club and East is forced to ruff his partner's winner, then declarer makes the last trick with the trump ace. It is a bit like when you learn squeeze play for the first time, you learn that you need to rectify the count so that you have one loser, yet some squeezes (e.g. a strip squeeze) operate on two or more losers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerriman Posted January 27, 2022 Report Share Posted January 27, 2022 It's even cuter when the 8 of clubs is a small trump; then you have a proper trump coup but when East ruffs high, you underruff. Don't think it has a name though other than just a trump endplay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pescetom Posted January 27, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2022 This perverse and fascinating hand was tricky in bidding terms too, I'll post it if I find time.With strong diamonds in North and 33 HCP on the line, a moysian 6♥ was not the mainstream choice and maybe rightly so (MP), but the only slam that could make double dummy. No surprise that even those who called it failed to make 6♥, as declarer has to decide early on the trump split (or so it seemed to me) as well as get things right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nullve Posted January 27, 2022 Report Share Posted January 27, 2022 If East ruffs with the T or J, South must play the (club or heart) four in these three (surprsingly similar?) cases: 1) [hv=pc=n&s=sha9dc4&w=sq9hdc3&n=s7hd97c&e=shjt5dc]399|300[/hv] 2) [hv=pc=n&s=sha9dc4&w=sq9hdc3&n=s7hd97c&e=shjtdc5]399|300[/hv] 3) [hv=pc=n&s=sha94dc&w=sq9hdc3&n=s7hd97c&e=shjt5dc]399|300[/hv] 1) and 2) both have trump promotion as a theme, obviously. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnu Posted January 27, 2022 Report Share Posted January 27, 2022 Kind of combination of Coup en passant, and trump coup or end play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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