European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse By Charles Gori both vulnerable. South deals. North4aq9763 9a 08s5 4aq8 West 42 pus pan pans opening Lead King of 9 even looking at All the cards it is not easy to spot Declarer s extra Chance to bring Home his Spade slam. Indeed when this hand was played in a team match two distinguished declares went Down. You Don t usually launch into Blackwood when you have three fast losers in a Side suit. However North Felt sure his partner had to have either the Ace or King of Dia monds for his opening bid so the venture was Safe. Against six Spades West made his Normal Lead of the King of hearts. Declarer problem was to a void los ing two tricks in clubs and the Sim ple Way to accomplish that was to try the club finesse which had a 60 percent Chance of succeeding. Today however was not one of those winning Days. You can improve on that line by drawing Trumps and eliminating the red suits. Then you must Hope that West is not at his most Alert and Lead a club toward Dummy intending to insert the eight and end play East. That worthy will either have to Lead a club into your major Tenace or else rive you a Ruff stuff in a red suit. However West can foil that by play ing second hand High and you will again have to lose two club tricks. The opening Lead has Given you an extra Chance finding East with the ten of hearts. Win the Ace of hearts draw Trumps and Cash the Ace King of diamonds. Now Lead the Jack of hearts forcing West to cover. You Ruff in Dummy and Trump a Dia mond in hand to eliminate that suit. Next Lead the nine of hearts. If West covers you must Ruff and fall Back on the club suit for your contract. If he does not produce the ten discard a club from the table. As the cards lie East must win but now he is indeed end played. Both vulnerable. East deals. North 42 9kj76 084 4q85432 West East 473 4j1094 99842 9ab3 of 10762 093 j7 4ak106 South 4akq86s 9q10oakqs 49 the bidding East South West North 14 44 pan pass pass opening Lead Jack of 4 Don t ask partner to do what you can do for yourself. Defense is a co operative venture and it does t help to blame partner for failing to do the right thing when you could have prevented him from going wrong. South saw no Hope of slam once East opened the bidding. Although it was possible that diamonds might have proved to be a Superior con tract South a bid of four Spades can not be criticized. West led the Jack of clubs and Declarer played Low from Dummy. East signalled that he did not want a club continuation by furnishing his Low est card the six. West thought that East wanted a heart led through Dummy s Tenace so he shifted to that suit the defense had shot Theibolt. Since he would set up Dummy s hearts if he Rose with the Ace East was forced to play Low. Declarer won cashed two High diamonds and ruffed a Diamond on the table. Al though East Over ruffed he was doing so with a natural Trump win Ner. The Ace of hearts was the third and last trick that Declarer surren dered. East mentioned that a Trump shift by West at trick two would have stranded Declarer with a Diamond loser. He was right about that but wrong to blame his partner. He him self was at fault for permitting Declarer to make his contract East should have won the first trick with the King of dubs and shifted to the Jack of Trumps. Now As Long As West signalled his heart length so that East could win the right heart in this Case the second round of the suit there was no Way that Declarer would avoid los ing a trick in each suit for Down one. Sum fun when the digit. 1-8 Var to right it was intended the vhf by Arfik Al Lher do in drawing do talk Between top mat Bottom panel. Hew quickly can you find them Check answer with Thote below. Spell score in poll letters in the � two completes Btu often score l words of fourfound1 among i try to pm of crw Dewarf Craft equip Dew Evert Terp b i bar today s crypt pulp Cate y b i
