European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 07, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Another Golden Oldie North South vulnerable. Souch deals. North 154 a k q 10 8 6 4 2 0 6 a 9 53 the bidding South West North East i 3 40 4 6 pass pass pass opening Lead King of Bridge in the . Seems to be nourishing. At a recent tournament in Estonia 128 pairs and 61 teams entered. This hand features Brilliant defense from a match be tween two latvian teams. South s one club was artificial and forcing. The rest of the auction was natural. Declarer ruffed the opening Lead then took five rounds of Trumps West discarding three Spades while East parted with one card in each suit. Next came a Diamond to the Jack and East won the Ace Declarer ruffed the Spade return and to learn More about the distribution cashed his last Trump. West stuffed a Spade and East a club. Declarer crossed to Dummy with the King of clubs noting West s ten and cashed the King of diamonds. When both defenders followed with a Low Diamond Declarer thought he had a Complete count of the hand. West had shown up with seven Spades and had followed four times in the red suits. Since he was marked with the Queen of Dia monds he had to have started with Only one club. So Declarer confidently ran the Jack of clubs. Down two. Winning with the Ace from an Ace Queen combination in this Posi Tion is not new to us. We first saw the play pulled off by Britain s Tony Friday some 40 years ago. However then it was made to tempt Declarer into repeating a finesse which was going to lose. The version where it is used to give a false count of the hand is a new twist. Q. Neither vulnerable As South you hold 9aqj106 oq652 k85 the bidding has proceeded West North East South pass pass 17 ? what action do you take the opponents have bid your Best suit it is almost always right to pass. If you double you Are in deep water should partner re Spond some number of Spades. You Don t have the values for a one no Trump voc recall which shows the equivalent of a i it opening bid. Q. Neither vulnerable As South you hold 46 aqji06 q652 k85 the bidding has proceeded West North East South pass pass 1 7 pass 1 pass pass ? what action do you take the auction you know partner has some strength and some length in Spades. Rather than any unilateral action double for take out. By implication this suggests you could not act initially because of a Strong holding in opener s suit. Q. Neither vulnerable As South you hold 943 9akj oj109 49843 partner opens the bidding with one club. What do you respond these Days of convenient minor suit opening bids you should try to avoid raising partner s minor unless you have five card support. Here both your strength and distribution can be relayed to partner with a one no Trump response. Q. 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