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.
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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
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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
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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.
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8
W/All
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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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QJ104
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-
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-
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-
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P
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AK76
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P
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1 i
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P
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1NT
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107
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Ap
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West
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J108
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East
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873
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K62
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i
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B.
minor
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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:
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Q
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A9652
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South
Truus
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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.
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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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2
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-
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1
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P
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1
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J10953
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P
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2
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P
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3
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109742
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P
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6
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P
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P
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Q5
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?
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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.
