Sunday, 15 April 2018

Trying to Seduce


While South was concerned about losing the first two diamond tricks, he hoped for East-West to hold a 10-card fit. passing 5♣ would not have been unreasonable. 

West led the K and East overtook with A and returned the 7 to the 10 and Q. Declarer ruffed in dummy. South would have started trumps by leading to the King if the defense had not forced dummy at trick two. Since South could no longer do that and pick up three trumps to the Queen in the West hand, South had a decision to make. If South wanted to play West for the three outstanding clubs South must risk a first-round finesse, losing whenever East started with the singleton or doubleton Queen. 

Of course, you should wonder why East was so quick to defend as he did when he might have been giving you a ruff-and-discard, and his partner might have held the A. Is he trying to protect his partner’s trump holding or is he trying to seduce you into disastrous first-round finesse into his unguarded Queen? If you believe that your opponent is merely defending well, then you will cross to the A and play a club to eight. When East shows out, you may breathe a sigh of relief, cash the ♣A cross to the ♠A cash the ♣K to draw the last trump.

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