I came to exercise number 8 where I was told: "that by laying down the ♣A and then losing three more club tricks to East I would be able to ...satisfy...BL.".
I loaded the hand into BBO and onto a teaching table where I allowed the robots to sit W E and N. They followed Clyde's bidding (almost) to the letter and played the hand as he specified. with the result that I made 4♥-1 .
Not good. I turned on the double-dummy and tried again: computer still said no.
Then I found another line that did not seem to involve squeezing West in diamonds and spades.
What am I doing wrong?
Here's the hand:
After the bidding West leads the ♠Q, you take it with the Ace, draw trumps in four rounds and the rest is up to you.
fwiw, when I gave to GIB, the bidding was:
After the 1NT East always "thinks" for a few seconds before bidding.
Here's what happened when I make the contract.
Tina Turner - What's Love got to do with it? - and if she's confused - imagine how I feel...
Pilowsky 'Bored with going down in normal contracts I decided to to do some book larnin and get deceived by a real expet. I came to exercise number 8 where I was told: "that by laying down the ♣A and then losing three more club tricks to East I would be able to ...satisfy...BL.".I loaded the hand into BBO and onto a teaching table where I allowed the robots to sit W E and N. They followed Clyde's bidding (almost) to the letter and played the hand as he specified. with the result that I made 4♥-1 . Not good. I turned on the double-dummy and tried again: computer still said no. Then I found another line that did not seem to involve squeezing West in diamonds and spades. What am I doing wrong? Here's the hand: After the bidding West leads the ♠Q, you take it with the Ace, draw trumps in four rounds and the rest is up to you.'
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Beautiful ending, Pilowsky! Well spotted