Boards from Monday, pairs at Atomic 31-01-2005.

Truus was busy, busy, busy with her work, so I had the pleasure of playing with Sava.

Theme: try to make up which play declarer is going to make.

Then you can make up the defence.

The illustration: 3 boards.

First 2 little problems, solution at the end.

Trick1: J - A - 9 - 4

Trick2: 2 - 9 - K - 10

Trick3: 6 - 7 - A - 2

Trick4: K – 2 – 6 – 7

Trick5: 10 – 5 – Q - 5

Trick6: J – 8 - 2 - 2

Trick7: 5 - 10 - 4 - ?

North has 3 or 5 and 2 , you can deduct this from your conventions.

We play high-low odd and low-high even.

North has played high-low and low-high.

What must South do now? Let the J hold or overtake with Q and play the last ?

A beautiful defence from Sava

Trick1: 5 - 10 - J – 7

North still has a to reach South..

Now 5 -tricks are made.

South discards and .

West discards twice .

North discards 3 times .

Trick8: Q - K - A - 2

Trick9: 9 – 3 (good, not covered.) - J - 7

Trick10: A and the rest is for NS

Solutions first 2 problems:

10. It winns when North has A of K, singleton and 2 .

Partner plays on this board A and 2.

After that: taken with A, and now comes the -ruff, then the -ruff.

West has a 6-card .

If you let partner ruff a at trick 2 he never will be reached twice to give you the -ruff.

The plan of declare when the is ruffed at trick 2:

to the Q, cross to dummy with , finess J.

Because when South plays the third , North cannot ruff.

Board 13.

Declarer has a 6-card with Q J 9 x x x and a 3-card .

If declarer has a 3-card he plays in trick 2 from dummy.

Because he has only 1 . Then he can ruff himself twice in dummy.

Now he tries to get rid of his on the .

So if you took Q play .

If you don’t overtake partner takes A.

If you overtake Q and play declarer makes 5 +1.

Did you asked yourself why West never played it 3?

This was the card that was in the possession of North.

West had:

6 5

x x

Q J 9 x x x

K x x