Take the opening diamond eight with dummy’s ace and immediately start in on spades, laying down dummy’s king and playing the nine to the ace in my hand. I would then play a third spade and trump it w/ dummy’s club six, play a heart from dummy to my heart ace, and lay down my last spade, trumping it w/ dummy’s jack.
So far, so good. I would then play one of my hearts and when East plays low and West takes it with an honor, I think I’m home free.
At this point, West can only play another heart or a trump, and if East were to trump a heart, I can manage that quite well in hand. Once I’m back on lead, I then play my clubs, taking all the remaining tricks.
What seems key, to me, here is making sure I use dummy’s clubs to trump my two spades before trying to play on clubs, and luckily having West take my second heart trick and being stuck on lead at that point. If East had taken that heart and played a diamond, I would have been forced to trump high and West’s club ten would become the setting trick. I think…
bobbywolffApril 19th, 2024 at 6:31 pm
Hi David,
At least to my view, you are doing the right thing by playing out the hand and rightly or especially wrongly, you will begin, if you not already have, learned to speak the language of the game.
By simply doing so, that process will acquaint you to bridge speak, the method of thinking that all of us, over the course of time, different to many, but if one word would tend to symbolize the task, I believe it would be thought of, and pronounced, as LOGIC.
Good luck to you and never give up, since there will be difficult times along the way, but
you are already, well past the point of having the mind, with the arithmetic ability to
apply the necessary tools of the mind, to get really good and best of all, take on any or everybody!
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Hi Bobby…
Well… what I would try is:
Take the opening diamond eight with dummy’s ace and immediately start in on spades, laying down dummy’s king and playing the nine to the ace in my hand. I would then play a third spade and trump it w/ dummy’s club six, play a heart from dummy to my heart ace, and lay down my last spade, trumping it w/ dummy’s jack.
So far, so good. I would then play one of my hearts and when East plays low and West takes it with an honor, I think I’m home free.
At this point, West can only play another heart or a trump, and if East were to trump a heart, I can manage that quite well in hand. Once I’m back on lead, I then play my clubs, taking all the remaining tricks.
What seems key, to me, here is making sure I use dummy’s clubs to trump my two spades before trying to play on clubs, and luckily having West take my second heart trick and being stuck on lead at that point. If East had taken that heart and played a diamond, I would have been forced to trump high and West’s club ten would become the setting trick. I think…
Hi David,
At least to my view, you are doing the right thing by playing out the hand and rightly or especially wrongly, you will begin, if you not already have, learned to speak the language of the game.
By simply doing so, that process will acquaint you to bridge speak, the method of thinking that all of us, over the course of time, different to many, but if one word would tend to symbolize the task, I believe it would be thought of, and pronounced, as LOGIC.
Good luck to you and never give up, since there will be difficult times along the way, but
you are already, well past the point of having the mind, with the arithmetic ability to
apply the necessary tools of the mind, to get really good and best of all, take on any or everybody!
Hooray!