Sunday, 14 May 2017

Shaky Trump Suit



‘The Heat and the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves and flowers growing on the trees, I had the familiar conviction that life was beginning all over again, with summer!’

It’s a bit unnerving to play in a trump contract missing the AKQXX of your trump suit, plus three other losers, but life goes on.

It looks like six losers even if trumps divide 3-2.  However, where there’s life…

It clubs divide 3-3, South can play four rounds of clubs (overtaking the J) and discard a heart from dummy while one opponent or the other ruffs.

Look at the East-West hands.  If West ruffs, West is ruffing with a trump trick.  South winds up losing three spades and two diamonds, but no hearts.  If West discards and East ruffs, low, South’s opponents’ spade honours would collide on the next two leads of the suit.  Once again South makes his contact.

When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something!

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