[Phil]

wanoff, on 2015-December-31, 13:03, said:

It doesn't matter, Rainer makes mistakes in the play as well - who doesn't.

Yes, but I'm pretty sure the last was when Clinton was president.

[Fluffy]

wanoff, on 2015-December-31, 13:03, said:

It doesn't matter, Rainer makes mistakes in the play as well - who doesn't.

It doesn't matter, Rainer was going to explain it whatever he answered.

[creatbid]

If south draws trumps from all the others, he will at most have 3 losers on hearts and 2 losers on diamonds. So he should avoid 4 possible losers at least for the slam. He ruffes H2 by S2 after ruffing the lead, ruffes a low club by S6 and ruffes H3 by S8. He plays CK and ruffes by S10 if ruffed by CA of east. If not, discard H5 and play CQ ruffing by S10 if ruffed by east or discard D4 if not. Now he has the only one loser on diamonds, and goes on to draw trumps. He makes the slam unless one opp has 5cards on spades. Of course, if he succeeds to draw CA by CQ, he can ruff the only loser by CJ and the slam will be made even after west ruffes it.

If CK is ruffed by west, he will be likely to play HQ. By this way south can draw trumps, cross to dummy by DA and discard his low diamonds by CQ&CJ. West never ducks CA to let south discard another red loser. But if west breaks diamonds after ruffing CK, south will ruff by DA, ruff his low diamonds by CQ&CJ and draw trumps.

Whether south succeeds, he always discards his hearts before his diamonds. Because the low hearts are absolutely losers while diamonds are just possible losers. He avoids 1 loser when DK or DQ is ruffed by DA.