[manudude03]

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Ignoring the fact that 4S is cold, you land in 3NT by S. Play or defend? Sorry if this is too easy, but please don't use DD solvers, more fun that way.

[nigel_k]

Maybe too easy. Hidden:

Spoiler

On a low club to the ace and heart back, West must unblock J under South's ace. Then he can afford to discard club winners on the run of the spades as there is access to plenty of heart winners in East. Otherwise there is bound to be a Vienna Coup and squeeze if defenders cash clubs immediately, or throw-in on West if they don't.

[manudude03]

Seems this didn't get much interest. Guess it was too easy, nigel got it right. This was a hand from a GiB tourney and I modified the contract.

Curiously, does the bot have any way of showing a decent distributional hand?

Actual result here

Triple squeeze to hold my losses to 1/3 of an imp

[billw55]

I don't understand. Let's say E-W are clever enough to cash four clubs off the top. Now west exits with a spade. Declarer has only eight cashers. If he runs the spades, west must blank a king. But since declarer discards first, west can always keep the right one?

[cherdanno]

billw55, on Feb 16 2010, 08:27 AM, said:

I don't understand. Let's say E-W are clever enough to cash four clubs off the top. Now west exits with a spade. Declarer has only eight cashers. If he runs the spades, west must blank a king. But since declarer discards first, west can always keep the right one?

Vienna Coup! (Cash ♥A then spades.)

[gnasher]

manudude03, on Feb 16 2010, 04:55 AM, said:

Seems this didn't get much interest.

I think it was just that Nigel had said all that there was to say.

[billw55]

cherdanno, on Feb 16 2010, 08:29 AM, said:

billw55, on Feb 16 2010, 08:27 AM, said:

I don't understand.  Let's say E-W are clever enough to cash four clubs off the top.  Now west exits with a spade.  Declarer has only eight cashers.  If he runs the spades, west must blank a king.  But since declarer discards first, west can always keep the right one? 

Vienna Coup! (Cash ♥A then spades.)

I still don't get it. OK, so now south and west must bear down to two cards on the run of spades, instead of three. But south still discards first. If south keeps ♦AQ, west keeps ♦Kx; if south keeps ♦A ♥x, west keeps the ♥K.

/duncecap

[PFormaini]

I'm still trying to work out how SOUTH became declarer in Spades.

[jdonn]

billw55, on Feb 16 2010, 11:06 AM, said:

cherdanno, on Feb 16 2010, 08:29 AM, said:

billw55, on Feb 16 2010, 08:27 AM, said:

I don't understand.  Let's say E-W are clever enough to cash four clubs off the top.  Now west exits with a spade.  Declarer has only eight cashers.  If he runs the spades, west must blank a king.  But since declarer discards first, west can always keep the right one?  

Vienna Coup! (Cash ♥A then spades.)

I still don't get it. OK, so now south and west must bear down to two cards on the run of spades, instead of three. But south still discards first. If south keeps ♦AQ, west keeps ♦Kx; if south keeps ♦A ♥x, west keeps the ♥K.

/duncecap

And north keeps the queen of hearts, which is now good because west had to throw the heart king to come down to Kx of diamonds. Yay!

Btw wrong forum but gib doubles 1NT too much!

[billw55]

jdonn, on Feb 16 2010, 11:26 AM, said:

And north keeps the queen of hearts, which is now good because west had to throw the heart king to come down to Kx of diamonds. Yay!

Btw wrong forum but gib doubles 1NT too much!

lol I hadn't even noticed the ♥Q hiding in dummy. duuuuuuh