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#1 User is offline   FrancesHinden 

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Posted 2012-February-26, 11:58



Declarer, South is in 4S. The play goes as follows:
club lead, jack, queen, ace
Jack of diamonds, king, ace
Queen of spades, king, ace
jack of spades (all following)
heart to the ace
heart ruff
club to the king
heart ruff
Queen of diamonds
10 of diamonds discarding the 9 of clubs

Declarer is now here with the lead in dummy


Declarer now shows his hand and says something like "these are all good apart from your trump trick". When it is pointed out that the HQ is not a winner, he says "well I'll just play a master club from dummy, that's good" (i.e. he clearly knows that the long diamond isn't good and the club is).

11 or 12 tricks?
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Posted 2012-February-26, 12:06

11. His play strongly suggests that he thought the heart was good. His line risked that West had the third spade and a doubleton diamond; if he knew that the club was good and the heart wasn't, it would have been obvious to throw the heart.

His words suggest the same thing.
... that would still not be conclusive proof, before someone wants to explain that to me as well as if I was a 5 year-old. - gwnn
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