St Edward's Rhubarb Issue 5

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Answer to Bridge Problems on page 14.

Problem 1 How should West play 4 ♠ on a heart lead? ♠ A K 8 7 3 ♥ J ♦ 6 5 3 ♣ A K 4 3 N W E S

Problem 2 How should West play 6 ♣ on a diamond lead?

N W E S

♠ A 8 7 2 ♥ A K 3 ♦ – ♣ J 9 8 5 3 2

♠ KQ 5 ♥ 8 ♦ A 10 9 7 5 2 ♣ KQ 4

♠ 9 6 5 4 ♥ A 8 4 3 ♦ J 4 2 ♣ 9 6

This was the very first board of the 1988 Olympiad. Several declarers failed after taking a heart ruff and then finding the trumps were 4-0. You must test the trumps first, so ruff the diamond lead. Whichever way trumps prove to be 4-0 you can pick them up (on the actual layout by running the nine through North), but now you know you cannot afford a ruff in dummy. Instead you throw a heart on the ♦ A and find later that the spades are 3-3 (there are also chances of a spade-diamond squeeze).

Win the ace, ruff a heart at once, then cash the two top trumps. If North has three trumps, you plan to elope with the small trumps: play ace and king of clubs, ruff a club, ruff a heart, ruff a club, ruff the last heart. Note that if North’s shape is 3-5-3-2 he cannot gain by discarding a couple of hearts when you ruff the clubs, as then dummy’s last heart becomes a winner, and you discard a diamond instead of ruffing in your own hand. This line will also work some of the time when South has three spades.