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Week 4 answers.

Look at the hands below, decide whether you want trumps or not and
whether you want to play in game or a part score. Good luck.

Í K J 5 3
Hand 1.
Ì 8 4
Ë K 8 6 5
West announces 7 points and East 9.
Ê 7 6 4
It is clear that in notrumps you are vulnerable to a
club attack and looks as though spades should be
trumps.
The lead is the ÊA.
Í A Q 7 6 4 2
So, keep C. A. L. M.
Ì A K 6 2
Count quick tricks by power. Í - 4, Ì - 2, Ë - 2, Ê - 0
Ë A 10
Add tricks from other sources. There are no tricks by
Ê 9
position but two spade tricks by length. We can also
trump 2 hearts in the dummy and use our trumps as a guard on the club
gate. Looks like 12 tricks perhaps.
Losers! We have no losers in spades, two losers in hearts. However, we
can trump these in the dummy. We have no diamond loser and 1 loser in
clubs. So, only 1 if we play carefully.
Manage. We must leave diamonds alone as much as we can.
So, declare game in spades and suppose that we get the ÊA lead and a
club continued. Trump it and play a trump ÍK. Remember that we started
with 10 trumps and so they started with 3. So long as both defenders play
a spade on the King we only have to
draw one more round. Now that Í K J 5 3
trumps are drawn play Ace, King of Ì 8 4
Ë K 8 6 5
hearts and trump a heart. Now we
Ê 7 6 4
need to be in hand and so cross to the
Í 10 8 Í 9
diamond Ace and trump a heart. Ì Q J 3 Ì 10 9 7 5
Now play ËK and all you have left Ë J 4 3 Ë Q 9 7 2
is spades. 12 tricks. Ê Q J 10 8 5 Ê A K 3 2
The full hands - Í A Q 7 6 4 2
Ì A K 6 2
Ë A 10
Ê 9

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