An interesting hand

[thorvald]

I played this hand in a challenge against a Robot and I was surprised by the lead

 

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♥8 from a 5-card suit was surprising

 

 

Cashing ♣A just looks strange for humans, but natural bot logik, at trick 6 the East bot failed to discard ♠Q, so I made the contract by playing ♠ from dummy twice and ducking ♠Q

 

But see in the Robot replay som strange things happened.

 

Bidding and opening lead was the same

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But look at the play of the ♣, where the declarer reduced the number of tricks to 1 (unless some endplay) but even more interesting here the East robot discarded ♠Q - probably not to create an entry at partner but to avoid the endplay. But here it did not matter because of declarers error in the ♣-suit

 

Bridge is a funny game