Sunday, 25 March 2018

Innocent Discard



Wes’s first discard looked harmless, but proved to have fatal consequences. When dummy went down, south did not feel very hopeful of success. things improved a little when south played low from dummy on the lead of the ♣J and the ♣K popped up. Still, where was a ninth trick to be found? 

South won the ace of clubs and crossed to dummy with a spade to lead a heart to the Q and West took it with the K. West had no reason to know the true heart position and, of course, if declarer held the A, he would have only one of the top diamonds. So, West switched to a low diamond, east played the J and south took it with the K. Now, south played a second spade to dummy and West pitched a heart, as would many of us, I think. The contract was now cold! 

South played a second heart and east won. But West’s discard meant that defensive communications had been cut. If the hearts were not cashed now, declarer would win the return and cash his black winners then put West in with a club to lead into the A - 10 at the end. So, east cashed his heart winners, only to squeeze his partner in the minors. South won the diamond switch and cashed two spade winners and West had no answer. Three NT made for +600.

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