Sunday, 6 January 2019

Alert Defense


Hope the new year was a great start with a lot of happy bridging with my readers! 

This was an interesting deal for the defense. South was in a partial contract of 2. West led 4. Dummy played J and East played Q. East returned ♠2. South played ♠J and West played ♠A. West continued ♠7, which East won, and South played ♠10. South won the third round of spades with ♠Q. When South played A and K, West followed with 9 and then discarded 2 on the second round. South led a diamond to K and East’s A. 

It is clear not to return a heart. That would give up a trick South was counting on. The choices are the thirteenth spade or a club into dummy’s ♣KJ754. Which will it be? 

East was an alert player and smartly he cashed ♣A, and got out with ♣2. This gave declarer an entry to dummy. But since South had not been able to shorten his trumps, the trump coup did not work. North led a diamond, but East just discarded his last spade and waited for the setting trick. 

‘If you are intelligent, if you are alert, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary.’


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