RHO opens 6S !
Lorne
A3
J976
AJ63
A72
What is your plan?
(this really happened)
Dave Flower
Pass, and lead CA; declarer will probably ruff, but I will get in with
SA, and (probably) lead DA - if this holds, it will not be difficult
to keep hearts when declarer runs the spades.
Second choice SA, as two rounds of spades may be required to stop
declarer ruffing a heart loser
Dave Flower
John Hall
Presumably RHO has a void in both minors. Therefore I have to hope that
he has an unexpected heart loser, in a hand something like:
KQJTxxx
AKQTxx
-
-
If I lead the club Ace, it's just possible that dummy will have
something like 9xx in spades, and eventually be able to get to dummy to
discard the losing hearts on three club winners. The Ace of diamonds is
less likely to be fatal, but the safe defence is Ace of spades and
another. Partner surely can't have the singleton King,
--
John Hall "[It was] so steep that at intervals the street broke into steps,
like a person breaking into giggles or hiccups, and then resumed
its sober climb, until it had another fit of steps."
Ursula K Le Guin "The Beginning Place"
John Hall
John Hall <nospam...@jhall.co.uk> writes:
>In article <SzPNm.4832$kY2...@newsfe01.iad>,
> Lorne <lorne_a...@hotmail.com> writes:
>>RHO opens 6S, vul leaving you on lead with:
>>
>>A3
>>J976
>>AJ63
>>A72
>>
>>What is your plan?
>>
>>(this really happened)
>>
>>
>
>Presumably RHO has a void in both minors. Therefore I have to hope that
>he has an unexpected heart loser, in a hand something like:
>
>KQJTxxx
>AKQTxx
>-
>-
>
>If I lead the club Ace, it's just possible that dummy will have
>something like 9xx in spades, and eventually be able to get to dummy to
>discard the losing hearts on three club winners. The Ace of diamonds is
>less likely to be fatal, but the safe defence is Ace of spades and
>another. Partner surely can't have the singleton King,
Just realised that if dummy has three trumps I can't prevent the hearts
being ruffed good, so I'll have to hope it has only two. Again Ace and
another trump is right, to forestall the possibility of a heart ruff.
Kieran Dyke
"Lorne" <lorne_a...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Spade ace. Either continue trumps (if it could be necessary) or try an ace
at trick two.
Tiggrr
dak...@aol.com
the endgame.
Sid
<dak...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> SA then m-A unless stop dummy ruff. I need to know which A to hold in
> the endgame.
>
Sounds like you need to hold hearts in the endgame, when declarer is 8-5 or
9-4 in the majors with AKQT(x) in hearts.
We hope partner can discard intuitively on the run of the trumps.
Sid
Mark Brader
> RHO opens 6S, vul leaving you on lead with:
>
> A3
> J976
> AJ63
> A72
Well, I hope I doubled.
I attack. Ace of spades, followed by the ace of whichever minor that
dummy can't ruff and that I can see fewer cards of in the two hands.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "Every new technology carries with it an opportunity
m...@vex.net | to invent a new crime" -- Laurence A. Urgenson
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Charles Brenner
Spade ace, then probably another spade.
I was hoping to find a reason to lead a low spade just to be
different, but I can't. The best I can come up with is if dummy has
xx,Qx,Kxxx,Kxxxx, then after the spade ace lead it might, at trick
two, be right to switch.
Charles
Charles Brenner
> xx,Qx,Kxxx,Kxxxx, then after the spade ace lead it might, at trick
> two, be right to switch.
Sorry, bad execution. Suppose dummy shows with x,Qx,Kxxxx,Kxxxx. What
play at trick 2?
Charles
John R. Mayne
Assuming everyone plays a member of the spade family, I'm leading
another spade. How can this be wrong? If declarer's insane and has a
minor suit loser, partner will signal count and make my life easy on
the run of the spades.
My certainty on this would be greater if Charles didn't implicitly
express some doubt; his analyses are usually very sound. But a second
spade just looks really, really obvious, and I can't figure out a way
for it to be wrong.
(Any lead other than the spade ace at trick one appears to me to be
flat error.)
--JRM, and I'm defending this doubled
>
> Charles
Kieran Dyke
"John R. Mayne" <jrm...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Declarer may have KQJTxxxxx,AKxx,-,-. A heart switch may be necessary to
break up a squeeze.
Tiggrr
Lorne
In practice dummy went down with a singleton in each major and declarer was
8500 - solid apart from the heart J and trump ace. Leading the spade ace
left declarer a trick short, but all you had to do to score 80+% on the
board is not double!
Everybody led a club thinking they were going to get a second chance to try
the diamond when in the the trump - obviously wrong when you think about it
but not necessarily that easy at the table to reallise your second trick was
actually a heart.
Conceding 1660 was worth 40% - is that a record ???
Kieran Dyke
It's hardest when dummy comes down with a doubleton queen of hearts and the
minor suit kings. I think that a heart shift is heavily percentage at this
point. Declarer might have KQJTxxxx,AKxxx,-,- and has you in a triple
squeeze, but a heart breaks it up. (If he has the heart ten, you were dead
anyway) If he has 9400 the heart doesn't quite work - dummy comes down
to -,Q,Kx,K and declarer has x,Kxx,-,-...you can't keep three hearts and
guard both kings. If dummy has only one minor suit king, then the heart
shift is necessary against 9400 but incurs additional risk against 8500 - if
declarer has the heart ten you've just handed him the contract.
Tiggrr
Charles Brenner
> "Lorne" <lorne_ander...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:EcjOm.47353$W77....@newsfe11.iad...
>
>
>
> > "Lorne" <lorne_ander...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:SzPNm.4832$kY2...@newsfe01.iad...
> >> RHO opens 6S, vul leaving you on lead with:
>
> >> A3
> >> J976
> >> AJ63
> >> A72
>
> >> What is your plan?
>
> >> (this really happened)
>
> > In practice dummy went down with a singleton in each major and declarer
> > was 8500 - solid apart from the heart J and trump ace. Leading the spade
> > ace left declarer a trick short, but all you had to do to score 80+% on
> > the board is not double!
>
> > Everybody led a club thinking they were going to get a second chance to
> > try the diamond when in the the trump - obviously wrong when you think
> > about it but not necessarily that easy at the table to reallise your
> > second trick was actually a heart.
>
> > Conceding 1660 was worth 40% - is that a record ???
>
> It's hardest when dummy comes down with a doubleton queen of hearts and the
> minor suit kings. I think that a heart shift is heavily percentage at this
> point. Declarer might have KQJTxxxx,AKxxx,-,- and has you in a triple
> squeeze, but a heart breaks it up.
Yes, that is the hand I had in mind.
Charles
dranon
If declarer is 8500 and the hearts are solid except the J, then it
doesn't make a bit of difference what A is led, there will always be
another chance. What am I missing?
John Hall
If a minor suit Ace is led, declarer ruffs in hand and can then use
dummy's trump to ruff the second round of hearts. You no longer make a
heart trick.