Untitled Document
Bucuresti, 14-12-2004
Aggressive doubles in pairs, but play them down!
Since I wrote an artikel about double in pairs, for the magic 200, we were doubled yesterday 6 times. That’s 25% of all boards. And because from these 24 we played 12 ourselves 50% of our contracts. These 6 contracts had to go down all, but in 5 of the 6 cases we made them.
We can therefore conclude that the defence has to be improved at Atomic.
I will describe 2 boards.
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3 Z/OW
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North
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North
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East
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South
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West
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 K Q 7
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p
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p
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 A K 9 5 4
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1 i
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2
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2
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2NT
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J
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P
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3NT
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dbl
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ap
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West Truus
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 J 6 5 2
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East Louis
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J 9 8 5
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3
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I
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5-crd
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Q 10 2
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8 3
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9 3
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A K Q 10 8 6 5
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A K 9 7
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South
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10 4 3
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A 10 6 4 2
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J 7 6
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7 4 2
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Q 8
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It has to be possible for NS to cash 5 tricks. North leads A, south plays 6 (discouraging).
North plays K, South plays J, high for -signal. After that 3 -tricks van be cashed.
On this board K lead, A and were played. That can’t be good play. West must have a -stop. Then came 7 times in North 2 were discarded.
We scored 3NT dbl +2 that’s 1150 (I didn’t know).
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27 Z/-
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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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A
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-
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-
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2 i
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P
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A K 10 9 8 4
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2 ii
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Dbl
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2
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P
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K 9 8
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4
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Dbl
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ap
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West
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A 9 5
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East
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K 8 6 4 2
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-
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Multi
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5 3
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Q J 6 2
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ii
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??
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10 7
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A Q J 5 4 3
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J 10 8 4
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South Truus
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Q 7 3
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Q J 10 9 7 5 3
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7
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6 2
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K 6 2
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?? If North bids 4 at once South must pass if he has or bid 4 if he has .
If North bids 2NT (strong) and South responds then this suit is agreed.
North inventd 2 (weak) supposing South had a 6-crd .This was a new experience for us after the multi. East started A and played Q for the K from North. The continuation of A was ruffed by East. Sir West laughed laudly, this is not decent.
If East playes Q the contract cannot be made, but because North had promised to be weak, played Q. North won with K, ruffed a diamand with 7 and played Q.
West plays H and North ruffs with 8. East ruffs higher and again playes for K.
On the high J North discards his losing .East ruffs again, but only becomes 2 ruffs and A . Well, I can laugh about that. I actually did, which is not decent.
I won’t do it again, that’s a promise.
Louis, the dutch player.
