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Playing is Listening or How to Outplay DeepFinesse
by Jan van Cleeff
In order to find the right lead it helps a lot when you listen to the bidding carefully. Israeli star Migry Zur-Campanile-Albu proves that the same applies to successful dummy play.
Varenne versus Villa Fabbriche. East and West are the DiBello brothers from Italy.
| Board 8. Dealer West. None Vul. |
| | ♠ K Q 9 8 2
♥ Q J 9 8
♦ 10 2
♣ K 2 | ♠ A 10 6 5
♥ 6
♦ Q 7 5 3
♣ Q J 10 9 |
 | ♠ 7 4
♥ A 10 7 3
♦ A J 9 8 6
♣ 6 4 |
| | ♠ J 3
♥ K 5 4 2
♦ K 4
♣ A 8 7 5 3 |
| West | North | East | South
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| Campanile | | Willenken
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| Pass | 1♠ | Dble | Rdble
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| 1NT | 2♥ | Pass | 4♥
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| All Pass
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East led a club for declarer’s king. Migry tabled the queen of hearts, which held the trick. She continued with a spade to the jack and West won the ace. A club came back for dummy’s ace. Due to the take-out double Migry was pretty sure that East possessed a four-card heart suit and therefore played a trump to the jack. East won the ace and played ace of diamonds and diamond. When Migry (deep-) finessed the ten of spades – West did bid 1NT remember – the five card ending was this:
| | ♠ K Q 8
♥ 9 8
♦ –
♣ – | ♠ 10 6
♥ –
♦ Q
♣ J 9 |
| ♠ –
♥ 10 7
♦ J 9 8
♣ - |
| | ♠ –
♥ K 5
♦ –
♣ 8 7 5 |
Having lost three tricks already declarer had to make the rest of the tricks for her contract. North played a trump and East did the best he could do by following low. Now Migry advanced a top spade and East was couped. Curtains and a ten IMP gain for Varenne since at the other table NS played 2♠ plus 1.
In fact Migry outplayed DeepFinesse. According to the double dummy analyser nine tricks is the maximum for North-South when hearts are trumps.
(It was hard for West to appreciate that after winning the ace of spades a diamond switch is essential, East winning and returning the suit. Now when East wins the ace of hearts a third diamond ensures a further trump trick for the defence. Editor)
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