Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Cornered and dangerous

I was playing in a 4board Swiss KO. I knew I had bungled the first board, there was not much hope till this board came along. I first just represented my strength a point higher.

Then we arrived at a thin slam where I had multiple queen locating to do, or some serious card reading.

After getting a count on the spades, I had resigned myself to playing E for the S:Qxxxx, and even with the SQ I come to 3+3+3+2top clubs, so I need to find the CQ. Judging the CQ to be offside and hoping angainst hope something would develop, I first cashed the second high club.

I got lucky..

13 badly needed IMPs for bidding this one. Other room 4NT +2

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In these pages, I comment on hands from Bridge Base Online ACBL tourneys. I play in these with a variety of partners with different degrees of skill. I might present a hand or two from my collection of bridge books, every now and then. I am more interested in play and defense than in complex bidding systems, but I do follow the cut and thrust of Vanderbilt and World Championship Vugraph and try to keep abreast of expert practice in the obstructive and constructive bidding system department. I may also feature, newspaper-style, famous hands from important matches that I saw on Vugraph.

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