OK, please ignore my comment on yesterday’s column as we’re here OK. At pairs or Board-A-Match the decision is trickier – what if the other room are in 3N, for example, and the spades are 4-3? I suppose there might be a case for ducking T1 then on the basis that East might doze off or the club finesse might work or both.
Regards,
Iain
bobbywolffOctober 30th, 2023 at 2:49 pm
Hi Iain,
As often happens in many groups, with ours the shining non-example, the screaming (call it safety play), is to do as the column suggests (like the simplicity of the card game, WAR, or at least, the way it used to be) lead the clubs from the top down and curse out the very popular game of Matchpoint Duplicate as the single culprit.
I guess the BEST way to describe our percentage game is to answer that the declarer needs to mentally calculate the chances of an opponent, if in when and if the club finesse loses (which will always lose, are you listening Jim2, if you then try it) and since your RHO doesn’t have to be a mental giant to switch to trump and hope for no quick entry for declarer to hand, perhaps for one’s own self-respect the below average board, one will get, if he doesn’t and lefty has the club king.
Unlucky players (again, are you listening, Jim2?) should not curse, nor take bad luck to be anything more than part of the game, but if partner doesn’t know that you are a great player by now, then he will never know and who wants to play with such an idiot?
Yes matchpoints have their weak spots, but so do so many things in life, just charge it off
as “part of the game” of course, after you direct a direct punch to your crying out partner’s stupid head!
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Hi Bobby,
OK, please ignore my comment on yesterday’s column as we’re here OK. At pairs or Board-A-Match the decision is trickier – what if the other room are in 3N, for example, and the spades are 4-3? I suppose there might be a case for ducking T1 then on the basis that East might doze off or the club finesse might work or both.
Regards,
Iain
Hi Iain,
As often happens in many groups, with ours the shining non-example, the screaming (call it safety play), is to do as the column suggests (like the simplicity of the card game, WAR, or at least, the way it used to be) lead the clubs from the top down and curse out the very popular game of Matchpoint Duplicate as the single culprit.
I guess the BEST way to describe our percentage game is to answer that the declarer needs to mentally calculate the chances of an opponent, if in when and if the club finesse loses (which will always lose, are you listening Jim2, if you then try it) and since your RHO doesn’t have to be a mental giant to switch to trump and hope for no quick entry for declarer to hand, perhaps for one’s own self-respect the below average board, one will get, if he doesn’t and lefty has the club king.
Unlucky players (again, are you listening, Jim2?) should not curse, nor take bad luck to be anything more than part of the game, but if partner doesn’t know that you are a great player by now, then he will never know and who wants to play with such an idiot?
Yes matchpoints have their weak spots, but so do so many things in life, just charge it off
as “part of the game” of course, after you direct a direct punch to your crying out partner’s stupid head!