Bucuresti, 12-2-2005
Story of 2 boards teams Atomic from 11-02-2005.
Theme:
communication.
It’s important that you can reach your partner.
Declarer to dummy and the defenders each other.
From both an example.
The declarer-dummy example.
7
S/NS
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North
Louis
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North
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East
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South
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West
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J6432
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-
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-
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1
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P
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J3
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1
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P
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2
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P
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KJ82
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2NT
|
Ap
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West
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A9
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East
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975
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KQ8
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Lead
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5
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K
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Q9854
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A9765
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Q4
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Q876
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South
Truus
|
532
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A10
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A10762
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103
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KJ104
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Trick1:
5 -
2 -
K -
3
Trick2:
5 –
2 –
Q –
3
Trick3:
4 -
6 -
9 -
J
Trick4:
8 –
4 –
10 -
A
Trick5:
6 –
K -
8 -
6
Declarer now has 2 tricks.
The
J;
A K;
A;
A makes 7, so
if the
-finesse is ok
it makes 8.
There are problems in
communication. First playing
and
Q is wrong makes
1 down.
Extra information: West
asked if 2
was
forcing, so West has certainly some points.
The solution is simple:
play at once
9 and finesse.
If
Q is with
East you make 8 tricks.
If
Q is with
West and he returns
there also are no problems.
If West returns
you play
A and
10 and hope
the
are now
3-2.
Declarer makes 4
-Tricks, 2
–Tricks and 2
-Tricks.
If East refuses the 2nd
you play
A and discard
A.
Declarer makes 2
, 2
, 3
and a
-Trick.
The communication of
the defenders.
8
W/All
|
North
Louis
|
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North
|
East
|
South
|
West
|
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QJ104
|
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-
|
-
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-
|
P
|
|
AK76
|
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P
|
1 i
|
P
|
1NT
|
|
107
|
|
Ap
|
|
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West
|
J108
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East
|
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873
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K62
|
i
|
B.
minor
|
3+
krt
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J2
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Q983
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Q954
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AJ32
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Lead:
|
Q
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A9652
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South
Truus
|
Q4
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A95
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1054
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K864
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K73
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Trick1:
Q -
2 -
9 -
3
Trick2:
J -
K -
A -
7
Not playing
K is better.
South can have
A dubbleton.
If South has
A 9 5, he
wins the third trick.
South now plays
something, and you gain tempo.
Trick3:
5 -
8 -
10 -
6
Trick4:
4 and now
East has to discard something, it became
3
Trick 4:
4 -
3
-
5 (diamond signal)
-
4
Trick5:
6 (first a
small
for the
communication) to
J
Trick6:
to the
Q for
K
Trick7:
4 and now 3
-Tricks were
cashed.
South discards twice
.
Trick10:
J to
A from West.
Trick11:
-finesse for South.
Trick12:
for North.
The last
was for the declarer. 1NT -4 is not a score you make every day.
At the end a question
of to do or not to do. First answer the following question, then read the text
below.
Do you have the courage
to double 6
?
1
was 17+ points, 1
showed 3 Controls (A=2; K=1), after that everything
was natural.
East knows that EW miss
one control, so that is the one your partner has.
North
Louis
|
North
|
East
|
South
|
West
|
2
|
-
|
1
|
P
|
1
|
J10953
|
P
|
2
|
P
|
3
|
109742
|
P
|
6
|
P
|
P
|
Q5
|
?
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The actual situation:
6
went -2, did you say double?
No, because West had a
6-card
and the
controls were on EW side
A K Q;
A;
A K Q;
A K.
South had
J x x.
So if you double West
tries 6NT.
They make this with 5
-Tricks and
the other Aces and Kings.
East complained it was
a very bad distribution,
-suit 5-1.
The advantage of 1
17+ and the answer is that you can exchange
information
After 3
the correct
bid is 3
from East.
Then West can bid 4
and you know
that 6
has a better
chance.
The bad sequence was
punished in a hand shuffled board.
In teams on the long term
the most safe slam scores.
I hope we
have more communication in the future, Louis.