A
defensive problem from a Lancashire online league match.
You
lead the diamond queen covered by the king, partner
wins the ace, declarer plays the three.
Partner returns the nine of diamonds, five, seven
and eight. Partner now plays the four of
diamonds, ten from declarer and you win with the
jack, dummy discarding the two of spades.
What
now?
Solution
John Holland plonked down (clicked on) the king of spades. This struck gold when declarer had a singleton queen of spades. Declarer won the spade ace and played a heart which John won and played a spade to partner's seven. The defence came to three diamonds, three spades and a heart for one off. The full deal was
In
the other room North played in three notrump
after the auction below. East chose to
lead a heart and Jeff Smith quickly wrapped up
nine tricks for a 12 imp gain, making three
more tricks in notrumps than in the other
room.
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