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Bidding Quiz Standard American bidding is assumed unless otherwise stated.

Hand A Hand B With Hand A RHO opens 1♦, what do you do?

♠ AK83 ♠ 65

♥ - ♥ AQ4 With Hand B partner opens 1♦, what do you bid?

♦ A97542 ♦ 1093

♣ J83 ♣ AJ543

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Bidding Sequence Quiz

C 1♦ 1♠ 2♥ 3♦ What is 3♦?

D 1♦ pass 1♥ pass

2♦ pass 2NT pass

3NT dbl What does the double mean?

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

North South West North East South

♠ AJ4 ♠ 65 - 1♦ pass 2♣

♥ KJ9 ♥ AQ4 pass 3NT all pass

♦ AQJ2 ♦ 1093

♣ K62 ♣ AJ543

East leads the ♠3 and West plays the ♠K. Are you going to take this trick? Which suit are you planning to attack, ♦’s or ♣’s? .

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Dave’s Column answer Board 13 from Wednesday 17^th

Dealer: ♠ AJ4 Book Bidding

North ♥ KJ9 West North East South(B)

Both vul ♦ AQJ2 - 1♦ pass 2♣ (1)

♣ K62 pass 3NT all pass

♠ K97 N ♠ Q10832 (1) What did you bid with this South hand B

♥ 1086 W E ♥ 7532 in this week’s quiz? 2♣ is preferable to 2NT

♦ 854 S ♦ K76 because of the weak ♠ holding.

♣ Q1097 ♣ 8 (2) 2NT would show 12-14 and so 3NT

♠ 65 shows 18-19

♥ AQ4

♦ 1093 East leads the ♠3 and West plays the ♠K. .

♣ AJ543 Plan the play

The sure route to nine tricks is to win the opening lead, cross to dummy with a ♥ and run the ♦10. The idea is to keep West off play. Even if the ♦ finesse loses you have nine tricks: three ♥’s, three ♦’s two ♣’s and the ♠A.

If you hold up in ♠’s you cannot afford to finesse the ♦ into East. You have to work with ♣’s instead by finessing into West, making sure East never gets in. If ♣’s are 3-2 then this line also produces at least nine tricks. But West may have four ♣’s headed by the ♣Q and then you do not have enough tricks in ♣’s and will need to take the ♦ finesse into the danger hand, East. No good.

And what happened at the Pattaya bridge club? 3NT+1 three times, 6NT-2 twice, 6NT-1, 3NT-2 and 3NT-1

The bottom line:

- When holding a AJx stopper in NoTrumps, with a low card led and third hand producing an honour, take the trick if your “big” finesse is playing for RHO to have the card, so that if the finesse loses then it is LHO who gets in and your Jx remains as a stopper.

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

West East West North East South

♠ K9432 ♠ AJ7 - - 1NT pass

♥ 862 ♥ A107 2♥ pass 2♠ pass

♦ Q82 ♦ AJ975 2NT pass 4♠ all pass

♣ K4 ♣ Q5

South leads the ♦4, plan the play.

Dave’s 2^nd Column answer Board 14 from Wednesday 17^th

Dealer: ♠ 1065 Book Bidding

East ♥ KQ43 West North East South

Love all ♦ 63 - - 1NT pass

♣ 10762 2♥ pass 2♠ pass

2NT (1) pass 4♠ all pass

♠ K9432 N ♠ AJ7

♥ 862 W E ♥ A107 (1) The author assumes that this is automatic,

♦ Q82 S ♦ AJ975 but with a poor ♠ suit and horrid ♥’s pass

♣ K4 ♣ Q5 is an attractive alternative in my opinion.

♠ Q8

♥ J95 South leads the ♦4, plan the play.

♦ K104

♣ AJ983

This is a very weird problem set by Bobby Wolff. I shan’t bother to type it all out, but apparently South’s failure to lead a trump indicated that he has the ♠Q doubleton and so declarer played ♠AK and made an over-trick when losing ♥’s were discarded on ♦’s.

Terry Comment. As South I would lead a ♥ rather than a ♦ away from the ♦K with a strong NT on the right; and this obvious (in my humble opinion) lead sets the contract if declarer takes the normal ♠ finesse. All in all, a very bad problem – I don’t like the bidding, I don’t like the opening lead, and I don’t like the assumption made by declarer to play the ♠’s against the odds.

And what happened at the Pattaya bridge club? Just about everything: 4♠=, 3♠+1 twice, 3♠+2, 2♠+1, 4♦=, 4♠-1 and 3NT-1.

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Some good bidding – part 1 Board 26 from Monday 15^th

Dealer: ♠ KQ97 West North East South

East ♥ Q543 - - pass 1♦

both vul ♦ 6 pass 1♥ pass 2♦

♣ K1092 pass 2NT (1) pass 3NT (2)

dbl (3) all pass

♠ J4 N ♠ 10532

♥ K9 W E ♥ J10876 (1) A shade light, especially with a mis-fit.

♦ KQ9843 S ♦ 2 Pass is the alternative.

♣ A86 ♣ Q43 (2) A clear raise to game with a maximum.

♠ A86 (3) N-S have bid to 3NT in a shaky invitational

♥ A2 sequence, and with great ♦’s sitting over a

♦ AJ1075 5-card ♦ suit West decided to double (for a ♦

♣ J75 lead – hoping that partner had a ♦!)

And what happened? East led a ♦ as requested and 3NT-1 was the only plus score for E-W. Other N-S’s were no so enterprising and results were: 2♦**(W)-4, 2♦*(W)-2, 2♦(W)-3, 2♥(E)-2, 2♠(N)= and 1NT(S)=.

The bottom lines: - A double of a freely bid 3NT by the player not on lead asks for dummy’s first bid suit to be led.

Some good bidding – part 2 Board 19 from Monday 15^th

Dealer: ♠ Q7542 West(A) North East South

South ♥ AJ943 - - - 1♦

E-W vul ♦ Q 1♠ (1) 2♥ (2) 3♦ (3) 3♥

♣ 42 4♠ (4) pass 5♣ pass

6♣ (5) pass pass 6♥ (6)

♠ AK83 N ♠ 9 pass (7) pass dbl all pass

♥ - W E ♥ 10862

♦ A97542 S ♦ 8

♣ J83 ♣ AKQ10975

♠ J106

♥ KQ75

♦ KJ1063

♣ 6

(1) What did you bid with this West hand A in this week’s quiz? With length and strength in RHO’s opened suit it is often a good idea to overcall at the one level with a good 4-card suit.

(2) A bit light for a new suit at the two level – a negative double is the alternative.

(3) An unassuming cue bid – generally showing a sound raise to three or more of partner’s suit but here it will subsequently show a very good suit of his own.

(4) Assuming partner has a good raise to 3♠, West decided to go for game.

(5) Knowing that partner has great ♣’s this hand, with every side suit controlled, must be worth slam.

(6) South knew that E-W generally knew what they were doing and when partner could not double 6♣ he took the good view of a 6♥ save.

(7) Inviting the grand

(8) With four small ♥’s that may be a burden in 7♣, West took the good view of doubling.

And what happened? As you would expect on this distributional deal, there was a mixed bag: 7♠*-5, 6♥*-4, 5♣+2 twice, 5♣= and 4♠-2. The auction shown gives good bids and good judgement by both sides, it seems that most of the rest of the club got things wrong as one would expect contracts of 6♣ or 6♥*.

The bottom lines: - You can agree to play that the Unassuming cue bid may be a good hand with a suit of its own.

Bidding Quiz Answers

Hand A: 1♠. This is surely one of those rare occasions where it is correct to overcall with a good 4-card suit.

Hand B: 2♣. This is better than 2NT because of the weak ♠’s – if NT is the best strain then it is surely better played by partner.

Bidding Sequence Quiz Answer

C 1♦ 1♠ 2♥ 3♦ 3♦ is an unassuming cue bid, generally showing a sound raise to 3♥ or better. There is a variation where the bid may alternatively show a very good suit of its own (so clearly ♣’s here).

D 1♦ pass 1♥ pass Dbl after an uncontested auction to 3NT demands that

2♦ pass 2NT pass partner lead dummy’s first bid suit (so ♦’s here).

3NT dbl

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		639.2 Janne Roos 638.3 Hans Vikman 629.2 Paul Quodomine 619.8 Lars Broman 609.5 Duplessy & Coutlet 605.6 Tomas Wikman 600.5 Jean Wissing 581.7 Bengt Malgren 580.4 Holger Renken 576.1 Royd Laidlow	327.8 Janne Roos 327.4 Hans Vikman 323.5 Tomas Wikman 322.9 Lars Broman 319.6 Sally Watson 319.5 Paul Quodomine 319.5 Duplessy & Coutlet 314.7 Jean Wissing 299.8 Bengt Malmgren 299.7 Bob Short