Minimum number of points to make 7NT

[DavJFlower]

There whas a recent discussion about the weakest hand to make a grand slam, and
a 5-point solution was proposed.

How about 7NT ?

Against best defence:

A Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
A
void
void

LHO has remainder of major cards
Dummy has minor suit garbage

With cooperative defence:

See Darvas and de V. Hart, right Through the Pack, p.174

1 point !

dave Flower

[Nigel Cundy]

I'm not sure that I can beat the first one, but there is a large class of
hands where it is possible to make a grand with no points, with a
little help from the defence. Here is one example:

98765432
98765
-
-
J10 AKQ
J10 AKQ
AKQJ105432 -
- AKQJ1032
-
432
9876
987654

7N by NS makes on a small minor suit lead from either opponent. On the D,
W ducks, and E discards his hearts, with spades thrown from table. On the
9 and 7 of clubs, W discards both his hearts, and more spades are thrown
from table. Then a H to table, and E and W discard all their spades on
dummy's hearts, leaving dummy's last two spades good. Also, EW cannot make
7NT themselves, on best defence.

Nigel.

[Rolf Wilson]

In article <20000513034018...@ng-bd1.aol.com>,
davjf...@aol.com (DavJFlower) wrote:

> There whas a recent discussion about the weakest hand to make a grand
slam, and
> a 5-point solution was proposed.
>
> How about 7NT ?
>
> Against best defence:
>
> A Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
> A
> void
> void
>
> LHO has remainder of major cards
> Dummy has minor suit garbage
>
> With cooperative defence:
>
> See Darvas and de V. Hart, right Through the Pack, p.174
>
> 1 point !
>

If you get to specify the hands for the defense, it can be done
with ZERO points with cooperative play. (It involves each defender
having voids into which they dump honors while the other opponent is
ducking T9876 with AKQJ5432.

[Adam Beneschan]

In article <20000513034018...@ng-bd1.aol.com>,
davjf...@aol.com (DavJFlower) wrote:
> There whas a recent discussion about the weakest hand to make a grand
slam, and
> a 5-point solution was proposed.
>
> How about 7NT ?
>
> Against best defence:
>
> A Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
> A
> void
> void
>
> LHO has remainder of major cards
> Dummy has minor suit garbage

If you allow for an unfortunate opening lead, you can do it with 9 HCP:

2
3
AJT98765432
--
8765 KQJ9
8764 AKQJ
Q K
T953 AKQJ
AT43
T952
--
87642

Due to a misunderstanding, LHO gets off to a diamond lead; declarer runs
all the diamonds.

-- Adam

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[Keith Sheppard]

I was also pondering, what is the greatest number of points LHO could have
and still not defeat the 7NT contract.

I came to conclusion that with the cooperation(?) of partner he could have
nearly all of them.

How could the holder of, say AKQJ AKQ AKQ AKQ, being on lead, fail to
defeat 7NT?

If my understanding of the rules is correct, all his partner has to do is
revoke on every trick and then he makes the tricks but then has to hand give
them back to declarer!

Keith

[t...@cix.compulink.co.uk]

In article <8g31mc$nru$1...@barcode.tesco.net>, Keith.S...@tesco.net
(Keith Sheppard) wrote:

This works fine on tricks 1-11. However there is no automatic penalty for
a trick 12 revoke and a revoke at trick 13 is impossible.

However. If West plays eg HAKQ with East revoking each time in diamonds
and at trick four East leads his heart 7 out of turn to South's 8 and two
more hearts while West discards diamonds then South will make 7NT with a
magnificent holding of -,865432,8765432,- opposite xxxxx,xxx,-,xxxxx.

When the teams get back together it might be interesting to see the
reaction to -2220, -2220:-)

Tim