rainbow@ihuxe.UUCP (Rob Buchner) (08/10/84)
S:A762 H:AT632 D:A65 C:5 S:QT95 S:J83 H:K8 H:J9 D:KQT92 D:J84 C:Q7 C:J9642 S:K4 H:Q754 D:73 C:AKT83 Contract:6H Lead:KD Show off your technique and make the hand.
ching@hp-pcd.UUCP (ching) (08/18/84)
1/***** hp-pcd:net.rec.bridge / ihuxe!rainbow / 2:49 pm Aug 9, 1984*/ S:A762 H:AT632 D:A65 C:5 S:QT95 S:J83 H:K8 H:J9 D:KQT92 D:J84 C:Q7 C:J9642 S:K4 H:Q754 D:73 C:AKT83 Contract:6H Lead:KD Show off your technique and make the hand. /* ---------- */ The trick is to try combining a diamond loser with a trump loser. Win the opening lead with AD. Take AC & KC and discard a diamond from dummy. Lead a third club. If west ruffs, discard the last diamond from dummy. Win the return. Clean up trumps, take all the honors, and cross ruff the rest. If west discards a spade, ruff in dummy. KS and AS followed by a ruff in hand to establish the fourth spade in dummy. A club toward dummy, west still can not ruff. Ruff it in dummy. Play last spade and discard diamond from hand. If east ruffs, win the return. Back to hand by ruffing a diamond. Play QH to knock out east's JH and drive out west's KH at the same time. The rest is trivial. If west ruffs, it is even easier. So we assume that west discards diamonds on club leads. Ruff the club in dummy. KS back to hand. Ruff another club. AS and spade ruff in hand. Ruff last club. Play the fourth spade from dummy. If east ruffs, then discard the diamond from hand. Get back in hand with diamond ruff followed by cleaning up trumps as before. If east discards a diamond, then ruff in hand. Give up a diamond trick. Whosoever wins the diamond has been thrown in. The end situation is S: - H: AT D: - C: - S: - S: - H: K8 H: J9 D: - D: - C: - C: - S: - H: Q7 D: - C: - Either east leads or west leads, declarer has the last two tricks.