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Mon 8^th N-S 1^st Derek & Gerard 65% 2^nd Bob S & Sigurd 59%

E-W 1^st Duplessy & Coutlet 61% 2^nd Henry Hal.. & Gun K 60%

Wed 10^th N-S 1^st Lars B & Tomas 58% 2^nd Les & Flora 55%

E-W 1^st Hans V & Janne 62% 2^nd Duplessy & Coutlet 59%

Fri 12^th N-S 1^st Bengt & Royd 56% 2^nd Aslgorm & Borge 55%

E-W 1^st Duplessy & Coutlet 62% 2^nd Bob S & Ole 58%

Dave’s Column Here is Dave’s first input on the play of the hand.

West East West North East South

♠ A63 ♠ 1087 - - 1NT pass

♥ QJ ♥ A72 2NT pass 3NT all pass

♦ J6432 ♦ AK

♣ 654 ♣ AJ1093

You are East, declarer in 3NT. South leads a 4^th best ♥4 and dummy’s ♥Q wins, North playing a discouraging ♥5. The ♣ suit is a better source of tricks than ♦’s so declarer leads a ♣ from dummy to his ♣J and it wins, South playing the ♣7.

How does declarer get to dummy to take another ♣ finesse?

Dave’s Column answer Board 14 from Wednesday 10^th

Dealer: ♠ KQ752 Book bidding

East ♥ 965 West North East South

Love all ♦ 9 - - 1NT pass

♣ KQ82 2NT pass 3NT all pass

♠ A63 N ♠ 1087 You are East. South leads a 4^th best ♥4 and

♥ QJ W E ♥ A72 dummy’s ♥Q wins, North playing a discouraging

♦ J6432 S ♦ AK ♥5. The ♣ suit is a better source of tricks than

♣ 654 ♣ AJ1093 ♦’s so declarer leads a ♣ from dummy to his ♣J

♠ J9 and it wins, South playing the ♣7.

♥ K10843 How does declarer get to dummy to take another

♦ Q10875 ♣ finesse?

♣ 7

The answer is that declarer does not go to dummy, he leads the ♣10 from his hand. He is missing the ♣K,Q so he has one ♣ loser for sure. By keeping his entries to dummy intact (to say nothing of exposing the hand to the ♠ suit) declarer can give up a ♣ trick before squandering his only entry to dummy.

What will happen is that North will win a ♣ trick but declarer can later go to dummy to take the proven ♣ finesse.

And what happened at the Pattaya bridge club? A very mixed bag: 3NT*-3, 3NT-5, 3NT-1, 3♠(N)=, 3♠(N)*-2, 3♥-2, 3♣=, 1NT+2 and 1NT+1. So the board was played ten times and nobody bid and made 3NT.

Dave’s 2^nd Column Here is Dave’s second problem on the play of the hand.

N ♠ KJ8 West North East South

W E ♥ 109 - - - 1♠

S ♦ J1093 pass 1NT pass 2NT

♣ K732 pass 3NT all pass

♠ A7542

♥ KQ5

♦ A85

♣ A4

You are East, defending 3NT, and lead an obvious ♦J, dummy plays the ♦A and partner discourages. Next comes the ♣A and a ♣, partner playing the ♣J and ♣10 (standard count), declarer the ♣5 and ♣Q. What are you going to do?

Dave’s 2^nd Column answer Board 15 from Wednesday 10^th

Dealer: ♠ Q Book Bidding

South ♥ 6432 West North East South

N-S vul ♦ KQ4 - - - 1♠

♣ Q9865 pass 1NT pass 2NT

pass 3NT all pass

♠ 10963 N ♠ KJ8

♥ AJ87 W E ♥ 109 You are East and lead an obvious ♦J, dummy

♦ 762 S ♦ J1093 plays the ♦A and partner discourages. Next

♣ J10 ♣ K732 comes the ♣A and a ♣, partner playing the ♣J

♠ A7542 and ♣10 (standard count), declarer the ♣5 and ♣Q.

♥ KQ5 What are you going to do?

♦ A85

♣ A4

From partner’s discouraging ♦ at trick one you should know that declarer has the ♦KQ, so three ♦ tricks. From the play of the ♣’s declarer must have ♣Q9865, so a total of four ♣ tricks after you win the ♣K. With the ♠A in dummy it can’t be right to switch to a ♥ no matter how good partner’s ♥’s are – you will be establishing declarer’s 9^th trick. You must switch to a ♠ and play partner for four ♠’s. And just in case declarer’s hoped-for singleton is the ♠Q you should play the ♠K after winning the ♣K. Also, it would be unwise to duck the ♣K as on the next ♣ partner may discard a ♠ from ♠109xx which happens to be the setting trick.

And what happened at the Pattaya bridge club? 3NT= four times, 3NT-1 twice, 3NT-2 twice, 3NT-3 and 4♠-2.

Current club championship standings

	Gold Cup = Best 30	Silver Plate = Best 10	Bronze Medal = Best 5
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10		628.0 Hans Vikman 622.4 Janne Roos 604.9 Paul Quodomine	321.7 Hans Vikman 320.9 Janne Roos 319.6 Sally Watson 318.8 Paul Quodomine 303.6 Macha Duplessy 303.6 Christian Coutlet 300.9 Lars Broman 300.4 Jean Wissing 298.6 Holger Renken 295.2 Tomas Wikman

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