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From
the Middlesex Congress Swiss Teams in December.
At
both tables the contract was one notrump played by South.
West
led a small heart to the ace, a heart was returned to the
jack and queen and West cleared the hearts.
At
our table South played a spade to the ace in dummy and
took the diamond finesse. Barry Myers sitting West
gave this a smooth duck.
South
now blithely assumed that the diamond finesse was working
and cashed the top spades in dummy and finessed the
diamond again.
Barry
won and took the thirteenth heart and the jack of
spades. South was in some trouble at this point
since if she discarded two clubs the defence could
probably take three club tricks, so she decided to discard
her top diamonds*. Meanwhile East had discarded the
nine of diamonds, so Barry was able to take two more
diamond tricks and a club trick for a rather embarrassing
two down.
In
the other room Debbie Sandford demonstrated how it should
be played. When she won the heart king she just
played diamonds from hand guaranteeing seven tricks.
* In
some variations the defence is able to play a stepping
stone squeeze, those who are interested can work it out.
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