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What Would You Lead?
Julien Gaviard of the French Schools team
found a lead to mislead declarer and persuade him to go down
in a contract he could have made in France’s Round Three match
against Hungary.
| West |
North |
East |
South |
| Gaviard |
Marjai |
Bessis |
Szabo |
|
|
|
Pass |
| 1¨ |
2¨ * |
Pass |
4ª |
| Pass |
4NT |
Pass |
5¨ |
| Pass |
5© |
Pass |
6§ |
| Pass |
6ª |
All Pass |
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| * Both majors |
You, West, are looking at:
ª
J
© 7 6 2
¨ A K Q J
3 2
§ 9
8 4 |
What would you lead?
Gaviard chose the king of diamonds, systemically
denying the ace. This was the full deal:
| Board 7. Dealer South. All Vul. |
| |
ª
A K 8 7 3
© A Q 9
8 5 3
¨ 10
§ 7 |
ª
J
© 7 6 2
¨ A K Q J 3
2
§ 9 8 4 |
 |
ª
10 4 2
© K J 10
¨ 8 5
§ Q J 10 6
2 |
| |
ª
Q 9 6 5
© 4
¨ 9 7 6 4
§ A K 5
3 |
At trick two, Gaviard switched to the
jack of spades. Declarer won in dummy and, imagining that East
held the ace of diamonds, assumed that West would hold the rest
of the high cards. Accordingly, he played a club to the ace
and then took the heart finesse. That was a quick one down in
a contract that could have been easily made by ruffing two hearts
in hand.
Perhaps declarer would have taken the
heart finesse anyway - who knows? - but more likely he would
have found the winning line without Gaviard’s deceptive lead.
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Finnish Team Profile
Meet Hulda, Pia, Fredi,
Janne, Jussi (Kettu - Fox) Tatu and big boss Kari.
We are so much of a team
that we are not persons at all. There are some things that we
like and dislike!
We like: (as you
can see, we are a very positive team! We like a lot!)
Finnish Sauna! Of Course!
- so we are used to heat and the local weather is no problem.
Mika Hakkinen, F1 Driver
- no explanation necessary
Dice Game Yatzy (Five Lines)
Card Game Kingi - we have
the rules if you are interested
Making bets of all kinds
- Stromberg from Sweden has one story about that!
Following Sports
Good food - kebabs - we
eat a lot
Drinking beer and talking
bull
Partying
Laughter
Talking Finnish, when nobody
understands it
Nokia mobile phones
We also like:
One of us likes Roberto
Carlos & Brazilian football - Tommi Makinen, Teemu Selanne,
Led Zeppelin, Juice Leskinen, Z. Valiaho, Zinedine Zidane, Fight
Club the Movie, Keanu Reeves (Girls like) Pamela Andersson (Boys
like), Jari Litanen.
We don’t like:
Ferrari F1 team - no explanation
necessary!
Our position in this tournament
- yet!
Morning matches
Ericsson mobile phones
That’s about everything
there is to know about us! If you want to know more contact
any of us!
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