Sunday, 12 November 2017

The Right Guess



Last three days saw bridge players from across India struggling to get the rank and the attractive prizes that came along with it. This was the yearly Ashok Kapur Memorial Bridge Tournament held at Catholic Gymkhana. His beloved and loving wife, Madhu, has been generously sponsoring this event every year. Under Rajeev Khandelwal’s great organising skills, of course. 

And finally in Mumbai there’s a ‘nip in the air’! But, this ‘senorita’ did care to play her hand well. 

After swift and simple auction, senorita sitting south had to make the right guess when the east led the 3. The problem was really not diamonds. It was spades! 

She wanted to decrease the chance of east winning the lead and shifting to a spade through her king. Obviously, if east has the A, South cannot keep him off the lead, but if he has the Q, South can. For that reason senorita went up the K. If K had lost to the Ace, the senorita would have had to sweat out the spade position. 

I think this senorita deserved a margarita!



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