A
deal from an online Swiss Pairs with IMP scoring.
An
instructional deal from a recent IMP pairs.
After
a simple auction to game West led the diamond king
(king for count) then the ace. East followed
with the five and the four while South played the
queen followed by the eight. West now
continued with another diamond, declarer ruffed in
dummy while throwing a heart from hand, drew trumps
and claimed ten tricks.
What
went wrong? West thought that declarer had
QJ98 of diamonds and maybe Ax of hearts and not the
ace of clubs. In this case a heart switch
would be too late as declarer could get his hearts
away on the established diamonds after drawing
trumps. If West played a third diamond though
East would ruff that and South could only get one
discard on the diamonds. East should have
played the nine of diamonds on the first round (the
highest he could afford) and then the four on the
second round of diamonds. West would have been
able to read this more clearly and would have
switched to a heart.
Surprisingly
four spades made more often than not, mainly played
from the North hand on a top heart lead.
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