Here is Hand No.95
Closed Room
Rusult:5♣WX-6
Open Room for conference
Result:4♠S+1
BroLucius said: Excellent spade slam, played by South. Very unlucky, of course, with spades 4-0.
Kit Woolsey said: USA can't pick up anything here, so will need a miracle on the last board.
Unfortunately lost 13imps only in the last hand.
The score is 236 :238,and finally N-S lost the game.
Who is fault?
Somebody thought this fault is from east player or west player or coach or bridge association......
Somebody suggested to improve coach selection system,some suggested to improve selection system of nation team.
The air was filled with the smell of anger, disappointment and scold.Why is victory so far away from us?
Just because of faults in one hand,after all,east player was very very difficult to understand why there were so much people appeared torrent of immoderate emotions?
Perhaps,perhaps there are too many factors can affect outcome of match.
Now let's look at the statistics.Match statistics showed that there are 24 match tables in total:
N-S 4♠ as final contract : 19 tables(79.17%)
N-S 6♠ as final contract : 4 tables(16.67%)
E-W 5♣ as final contract: 1 table( 4.17%)
All the fans of countrywide were very angry at this hand .
Some experts said best auction was west player passed 4nt,even got penalty double,west player can redouble ,let east player pick up a trumph suit.
Perhaps,Only the winners can write the history?
Perhaps,Only the winner ever smile, who has ever heard of loser crying?
What's the victory?
Perhaps someone said you get victory,just is others' failure.
What's failure?
Perhaps somebody said who want to answer?
Is the bridge only a game?
Perhaps somebody said No.
Is the bridge for fun ?
Moscow Distrusts Tears for sure.
Now,I am typing here so far,I have no idea.Do you have any idea?
RHO has shown a limited hand with long ♠s and LHO has at least a doubleton. Opponents haven't tried for a slam so partner is marked with values. He has shown no interest in your ♥s, so is likely to have at least one 4+ minor e.g.
♠ Q x x ♥ x x ♦ Q J x x x x ♣ K x
Perhaps East's 4N was unilateral and foolhardy but presumably he was tired and reluctant to reign-in the aggressive style that worked well, earlier. He was unlucky here.
East's 4N would normally show a 2-suiter, so there's an argument for West to prefer 5♣ to 5♥.