Wednesday, January 23, 2008

WHEEEEEEEEE

Just Because


Because nothing takes one's mind off the dead of winter like fireworks and a dead little bunny.

Thursday, January 3, 2008

The New Year Defense

> you pick up
>
> xx
> Qxx
> Kxxxx
> xxx
>
>
>
> lovely, isn't it :> And you hear the auction proceed
>
> LHO Pard RHO You
> 1nt P 2C P
> 2D P 3nt All Pass
>
>
> Pard leads the SK and dummy hits with
>
>
> 5432
> xx
> AQJ
> KJxx
>
>
>
> Declarer ducks the 1st S and when pard continues with the 10. wins the A.
> At. trick 3 , declarer proceeds to run 4 C tricks ending in his hand (pard
> hi-lowed
> and showed out on the 3rd rnd discarding an unhelpful H spot and a D, while
> on the 4th C
> you discard.....what? Dummy is now
>
> xx
> xx
> AQJ
> ------
>
> and you are behind dummy with a card to play and
>
> -----
> Qxx
> Kxxxx
> -----
>
> Assuming you throw a D (you can signal with an odd spot if u wish, it can't
> possibly matter) you'll now have
>
>
> ----
> Qxx
> Kxxx
> ----
>
>
>
>
> Declarer proceeds with the HA and the HK
>
> Questions
>
> without looking back at the problem above, what is declarers distribution?
> How many points has he shown up with? What heart do you play under his 2nd
> heart trick?
>
>
> Enjoy ! :>
>
> and have a happy New Years!