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Make this slam double-dummy problem

#1 User is offline   JSilver 

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Posted 2005-June-14, 15:29

I'll present this double dummy, but perhaps it could be made at the table.

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Obviously 6♦ would be much easier, but 6♥ was a more popular spot. How do you make it on a ♦ lead? You ruff a club in dummy, and the only safe return is in trumps. Now a second ♣ ruff will endplay dummy, so you must draw trump. Now what?

If you unblock the ♦Q and attempt to reach dummy in spades, the defenders can frustrate you. (On a low ♠, South must insert the T.) So...?

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The solution is a strip squeeze, but the timing must be precise. Before playing the last ♥, you play one high ♠, North ducking. Now the 5th ♥, coming down to the following ending:

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North must throw a club, to maintain the spade holdup and stop the overtake of the ♦Q. Only now can you unblock the ♦Q, then cash the ♣A, and lead ♠J, endplaying North at trick 12 or 13.
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Posted 2005-June-14, 16:57

cute hand, have seen the theme before I like it alot.
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Posted 2005-June-14, 18:13

i can safely say there's no way in hell i'd have made that at the table, especially given the level of impatience shown toward thinking
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