[mila85]

Lead is in south.

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Spades are trumphs, play for 5 tricks!

(I hope you don't know it )

[Poky]

Solution in hidden text:

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Spade to ace (RHO throws a club) and spade to ten - making an overtaking ruffout squeeze against RHO if LHO returns a trump. Very nice hand!

[inquiry]

Poky, on Nov 21 2005, 01:44 PM, said:

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Spade to ace (RHO throws a club) and spade to ten - making an overtaking ruffout squeeze against RHO if LHO returns a trump. Very nice hand!

Are you sure? I mean, overtake the spade queen and return a spade. You win three spades and what? I think here you win a total of three tricks, not five, much less the six you suggested, losing a spade and two clubs.

The line I had in mnid is fairly fun, but I think it is cooked.
You need to establish balanced trump position for an entry shifting trump squeeze on EAST (see adventures in card play by kelsey and ottik)....

Blunder out the spade TEN. If WEST makes the natural looking play of covering the ten, you have 5 sure tricks by this line

If west returns the spade nine, play spade jack from dummy. If east pitches a diamond, duck, ruff a diamond and dummy is good. If East pitches a club, overtake the jack with the king, ruff a club, and your hand is good.

Alternatively, West can try a heart out, ruff in your hand, and lead a club, planning on a cross ruff (you can safely ruff two clubs in dummy).

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This line works because when you ruff the first diamond, you catch east in a squeeze after his partner overruffs should he return a trump. And if he fails to return a trump, well, you simply cross ruff the hand.

The play is not so clear if WEST makes the great play of failing to cover the spade TEN. The entryshifting squeeze now fails. I am not sure how to make it with this line of defense. Unbalanced entry shifting squeezes are much, much harder to execute. As of now, I don't see the line to counter the duck of the spade ten.

[ron]

really nice. solution in hidden text:

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spade to the ace and ruff a diamond with the spade ten. if west overruffs and returns a trump east is caught in an entry-shifting squeeze. if west pitches, you ruff a club, ruff a diamond, and score SJ en passant.

[han]

I think I saw this hand in a bulletin somewhere... was it from the junion world championships in Australia?

[mila85]

Hannie, on Nov 21 2005, 06:11 PM, said:

I think I saw this hand in a bulletin somewhere... was it from the junion world championships in Australia?

It's possible, I wasn't there...
I have it from Czech bridge magazine.

[Poky]

inquiry, on Nov 21 2005, 08:18 PM, said:

Poky, on Nov 21 2005, 01:44 PM, said:

Solution in hidden text:

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Spade to ace (RHO throws a club) and spade to ten - making an overtaking ruffout squeeze against RHO if LHO returns a trump. Very nice hand!

Are you sure? I mean, overtake the spade queen and return a spade. You win three spades and what? I think here you win a total of three tricks, not five, much less the six you suggested, losing a spade and two clubs.

Right. I meant to say: diamond (not spade) to spade ten.... etc.

[Fluffy]

This was given to me a couple of months ago, I had seen a similar problemion the pavlicek's page with bizarre plays, so I though first of the most bizarree play and guessed it on 15 secs. My friends were amazed