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Bucuresti, 22-1-2005
I am working on Bridge20.doc so this is Bridge21.doc.
Report from two boards in the teams competition from Atomic 21-01-2005.
We now also play on Friday to practice this kind of game.
Theme in teams: play carefully as declarer and defend well as opponent. Two examples.
In teams the making of the contract is number one, extra tricks are not so important.
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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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J 9 8 7 2
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P
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p
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p
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1
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10 8
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1
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3
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 A K Q
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ap
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West
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7 3 2
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East
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Lead
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3
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A K 6 5
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4
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Q 9 7 6 5
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J 2
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4
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J 9 8 7 5
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K Q 8
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South Truus
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A J 9 6 4
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Q 10 3
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A K 4 3
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10 6 3 2
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10 5
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Trick1: 3 - A - 2 - 4
Trick2: K - 7 - 2 - V
How to play now? In this game it went:
Trick3: 5 - 8 - J - K
Trick4: 5 - 8 - 3 - 4
Trick5: 4 - Q - 5 - 6
Trick6: 2 - 6 - 10 - Q
Trick7: 6 - 10 - 9 - 3
Trick8: 7 - 3 - K - K
East has ruffed a and played trump twice.
Trick9: 5 - 7 - J - 3
Trick10: to the A from North
North played J and that was the last trump from East.
After that North ruffed the continuation with 7 and the last became the minus-one-trick.
Analysis:
The best play from East Trick3: play . That’s the
long suit which has to deliver the 9th trick. Even in Trick4 the contract can
be made if 8 is overtaken by
the 9 in East and a small
is played. You prevent that East becomes short of trumps.
Board 24 was amusing.
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24 W/OW
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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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Q 4
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J 6 5
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A 10
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3NT
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4
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West
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J 10 6 4 3 2
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East
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ap
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A J 10 6 5 3
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K
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Lead
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A
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9 3
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A K 8 4 2
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6
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K J 7 5 4
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A K Q 5
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South Truus
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8 7
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9 8 7 2
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Q 10 7
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Q 9 8 3 2
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9
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Trick1: A - 4 - 2 - 6
How has North to continue? At this moment West pronounces probably 6 is missed. There sill is one tricky defence. West is marked with a 6-?-?-4 distribution, probably shortness in .
Trick2: J - 7 - 9 - Q
Trick3: 3 - 4 - K - 2
Trick4: K - 3 - 5 - 10
Trick5: 7 - 7 - K - 2
Trick6: 9 - J - Q - 5
Trick7: played, ruffed by South, so 4 -1.
Funny because just was said that 6 was missed.
Evaluation:
It seems that Q had to play Q in Trick 6.
Even then the contract can be made by ruffing with A, play 2 times and discard the A on J. The best play from West is a low in Trick 4, then draw trumps. The 5 can be discarded on the K in a later stadium.
The Italians team analysed their matches to type of faults.
Type 1: declarer didn’t take his legal chance of making the contract.
Type 2: an opponent didn’t take his legal chance to defend the contract.
I can send the 2 examples above to this team if my name was Luigi.
La revedere,
Louis, jucător olandez..
