Hi Dear Mr Wolff
There are many interesting points about this hand. Firstly, with so many high card points and super fit in diamonds, perhaps NS should be declaring this in five diamonds. If north bids diamonds , he always makes six reading the position correctly as east is hopelessly squeezed in black suits and if south declares he makes five at least even if west finds spade lead else six
Secondly, the entry shifting play perhaps may not be necessary. Say dummy leads J of clubs covered, won in hand and south cashes four rounds of diamonds ending in dummy. On third, west can go a club but on fourth west can discard only Q of hearts and now fifth diamond crushes west ( south discards a heart) . On a spade discard, the threat being neutralized, dummy can lead heart and on any other discard south gets ninth trick immediately. Interestingly , it is not necessary for west to hold both A Q of hearts. Just Ax would do but then south can even postpone club play and lead J of clubs after he cashes diamonds if he infers correctly that west holds ten of clubs. However the entry shifting play if executed has its magical charm. Quite an interesting hand
Regards
bobbywolffAugust 12th, 2023 at 1:17 pm
Hi AVRR,
While you, as always. are as totally correct (never surprising) as anyone can be. However, at least to me, we need to be practical, which translated into meaning, instead of the necessity of just English, would you not admit that, with no singletons and all the suits stopped, but with both NS sadly, having only a doubleton, with the king offside as well it narrows down to only the play. IOW and since you only write the truth (a wonderful byproduct) you do delve into the right play while (arguably playing the best contract), but would any good partnership wind up declaring 5 diamonds instead of 3NT? BTW, if you found an excellent pair that did, I would wonder how they found a key to where the already dealt duplicate boards sleep.
However, you have found an alternate method to declare 3NT and to that is just another example of your very skilled ability to analyze. Yes, discussing 5 diamonds as the better contract may or may not be true, but since, at least IMO any pair which does reach it does
not figure to be in contention at the end of any high-level bridge tournament, at least in my judgment (placement of the heart queen becomes paramount).
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Hi Dear Mr Wolff
There are many interesting points about this hand. Firstly, with so many high card points and super fit in diamonds, perhaps NS should be declaring this in five diamonds. If north bids diamonds , he always makes six reading the position correctly as east is hopelessly squeezed in black suits and if south declares he makes five at least even if west finds spade lead else six
Secondly, the entry shifting play perhaps may not be necessary. Say dummy leads J of clubs covered, won in hand and south cashes four rounds of diamonds ending in dummy. On third, west can go a club but on fourth west can discard only Q of hearts and now fifth diamond crushes west ( south discards a heart) . On a spade discard, the threat being neutralized, dummy can lead heart and on any other discard south gets ninth trick immediately. Interestingly , it is not necessary for west to hold both A Q of hearts. Just Ax would do but then south can even postpone club play and lead J of clubs after he cashes diamonds if he infers correctly that west holds ten of clubs. However the entry shifting play if executed has its magical charm. Quite an interesting hand
Regards
Hi AVRR,
While you, as always. are as totally correct (never surprising) as anyone can be. However, at least to me, we need to be practical, which translated into meaning, instead of the necessity of just English, would you not admit that, with no singletons and all the suits stopped, but with both NS sadly, having only a doubleton, with the king offside as well it narrows down to only the play. IOW and since you only write the truth (a wonderful byproduct) you do delve into the right play while (arguably playing the best contract), but would any good partnership wind up declaring 5 diamonds instead of 3NT? BTW, if you found an excellent pair that did, I would wonder how they found a key to where the already dealt duplicate boards sleep.
However, you have found an alternate method to declare 3NT and to that is just another example of your very skilled ability to analyze. Yes, discussing 5 diamonds as the better contract may or may not be true, but since, at least IMO any pair which does reach it does
not figure to be in contention at the end of any high-level bridge tournament, at least in my judgment (placement of the heart queen becomes paramount).