rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins) (07/19/83)
In the best of all possible worlds, you could make Grand Slam with a trump fit of 3-3 and a split of 5-2: NORTH: S-- A Q 9 H-- 4 D-- Q T 9 8 7 6 4 3 2 C-- void WEST: EAST: S-- 7 4 S-- 8 6 5 3 2 H-- 9 6 5 2 H-- T 8 7 3 D-- K J 5 D-- A C-- 9 8 7 3 C-- J T 5 SOUTH: S-- K J T H-- A K Q J D-- void C-- A K Q 6 4 2 Never mind the auction. North and South started bidding wildly until they committed themselves to about the four level when they realized that they had a misfit hand. They finally agreed upon a trump that they each had some of (and had top values in), and like all people who use Precision Bidding, went to slam. A spade lead from east would defeat the contract, although east would never pull trump. Instead, he lead his low heart, which south grabs with the Ace. South realizes that as his cards lie, he has ten winners in his hand and three on the board, and only if east and west are not allowed to ruff. He prays to the god of distribution (who was in a bizarre mood for this hand) and proceeds to cash his winners. He made it because the defenders cards fell the only way that they possibly could for him to make it. The question is, how did he play it?? -- Randwulf (Randy Haskins) genrad!mit-eddie!rh or... rh@mit-ee (via mit-mc)
pag@hao.UUCP (07/20/83)
NORTH: S-- A Q 9 H-- 4 D-- Q T 9 8 7 6 4 3 2 C-- void WEST: EAST: S-- 7 4 S-- 8 6 5 3 2 H-- 9 6 5 2 H-- T 8 7 3 D-- K J 5 D-- A C-- 9 8 7 3 C-- J T 5 SOUTH: S-- K J T H-- A K Q J D-- void C-- A K Q 6 4 2 Simple! Cash the 4 hearts, followed by the 3 top clubs, and then cross ruff clubs and diamonds for the remaining 6 tricks. Come on, give us something tougher! --peter
rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins) (07/21/83)
Okay, so it wasn't difficult. I'll work on trying to find harder problems. It's just that I was weeding through my directory the other day and found that crufty old problem that I'd made up, and decided to post it to this dormant newsgroup. If anyone else has problems, or wants to talk about programs that play bridge, I'm interested... -- Randwulf (Randy Haskins) genrad!mit-eddie!rh or... rh@mit-ee (via mit-mc)
woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) (07/22/83)
I'd love to see this group start up again. Randy-- Have you actually seen
a program that plays bridge? How good is it? I've often thought of trying t
write such a program, but I can't even teach myself proper playing and bidding
strategy, never mind a computer!
GREG
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