3rd European Open Bridge Championships Page 5 Bulletin 4 - Tuesday 19 June 2007


Feeling stupid

by Jan van Cleeff

Mixed Teams Swiss-A, round 3 Love all, you have: ♠ A 5 10 2 J 8 4 2 ♣ 10 7 5 4 2 LHO opens Four Spades, partner passes, RHO jumps to Six Hearts and there it rests. Your lead please. I led a club and when dummy went down, I immediately felt stupid:

Board 30. Dealer East. None Vul.
  ♠ A 5
10 2
J 8 4 2
♣ 10 7 5 4 2

♠ –
A K Q J 9 7 4 3
7
«Bridge
♠ K Q 9 8 7 6 3 2
6 5
Q 10 3
  ♠ J 10 4
8
A K 9 6 5
♣ Q J 8 6

A trump lead or a diamond lead and a trump switch would leave declarer without a chance. Hard to find? Well, since quite a few players found the right lead, I felt even more stupid. I discussed the hand with Chris Willenken who in fact found the trump lead: ‘Actually I was considering tabling the ♠A first and then switching to a trump. That way I could kill a dummy with no entries in case declarer had a stiff spade and finesses in the minors. A little bit too far fetched though.’



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