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What would you say now? Answer If you bid 2D. partner will take this as a cue-bid showing a good hand with heart support. An overcall at the one level does not promise much strength. Strange as it may seem. I reckon that a Pass is the best move. If you want to show some values, in case partner is strong, then you can bid INT, which suggests about 9-13 points. However, I don’t expect this contract to play so well as IH. Awards: Pass-10, INT-7, 2D-4, 2NT-2 — Knight Features |
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deal come from the National Open Teams in Australia. South ended in 3NT,
despite a strong INT opening from West. How would you have played this
contract after a lead of the queen of diamonds from West? Declarer won
with the diamond king and saw that he might be embarrassed for discards
if he ran the club suit immediately. Instead, he led the queen of hearts
from his hand. West won with the ace and persisted with the jack of
diamonds. If declarer had captured this trick, he would have gone down.
The defenders would still have had communications in diamonds. The jack
of diamonds was allowed to win and declarer won the third round of
diamonds with dummy’s ace. Again it would be awkward to run the clubs
at this stage. South would be discarding in front of West and would be
in danger of losing the last three tricks. If he kept K-10 of spades and
bared the heart jack. West would reduce to the bare spade ace and two
hearts. If instead he kept the bare spade king and Q-8 of hearts. West
would reduce to two spades and the heart king. Avoiding this situation,
declarer ran the nine of hearts. When it forced West’s ace, there were
nine tricks on view.
