Sunday, 8 January 2017

Never Give Up




West led the Heart King and declarer had to choose line of play.  West’s two-suited cue bid marked with at least ten cards in hearts and (probably) clubs combined.  After winning the Heart Ace, declarer started with a spade to the King and decided to believe that West’s Spade 10 was a singleton.  Since it was against the odds that the Diamond Jack would drop, he decided to cater to less favourable diamond layouts.  He abandoned trumps and started diamonds, to ruff out East’s long Jack.  He was horrified to see West’s Diamond Jack appear on the second round because now he could no longer cash his five diamond winners.

He threw a heart and a club on the nest two diamonds, then ruffed a heart, crossed to a second trump, and ruffed another heart.  He was down to one high trump in each hand while East held the Spade 98, apparently due to take a trump trick.  Declarer played the Club Ace and Club Queen, which West won as East had to follow.  West had to play a club or a heart, and so declarer had to score his trumps separately at tricks twelve and thirteen.  He had made his slam despite scoring only four of his five diamond winners.

Even if you suffer an early setback, never give up.


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