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Shanghai, bridge for a change

Interesting hand from the 2007 transnational teams.

By chip

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Published: 21 November 2007 07:41 pm

Lots of bridge in the news lately, unfortuately not about the game. Fortunately cooler heads have prevailed, so we can now move back to bridge hands. Here is an interesting hand from the Transnationals in Shanghai.

Our opponents bid as shown at the other table against our teammates Agustin Madala and Antonio Sementa. West (Madala) found the sensible lead of the heart king since that suit needed less help, and declarer (perhaps wrongly) ducked. West now found the threatening spade shift. Declarer was not too worried since he could cash the AK of clubs and then take the diamond finesse into the safe hand (protecting his remaining

x) however, with clubs 4-1 West was able to win the

, cash two clubs and a spade to go with the trick one heart winner, down one.

Unfortunately this was still a small loss. We got to

DBLed which provided a different sort of play problem after a heart lead. With clubs likely 4-1 (from the DBL) there was little point in taking the diamond finesse (if the

is onside third, West can ruff the third diamond to prevent throwing away both hearts). So I tried the AK of clubs then AK of diamonds (dropping the queen) and threw a heart away on the

, but West ruffed in to cash a heart for down 1. So lose 3.

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