Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Do not bid like this at home

Needing to generate a IMP swing, I looked to bid and make game here

My (human) correspondent I showed the hand to, rightly criticized my spade finesse on round three of the suit. "I can understand playing on spades before leading the 3rd round of clubs—if West had the last high club, you want to limit the number of tricks by which you go down. But taking the spade finesse on the 3rd round of the suit was an unnecessary risk—you still needed a club trick to make your contract, and if the spade finesse lost, you’d be down even if the last club honor was with East. And if the spade finesse was winning, and you don’t take it, you’ve managed to set up a trick for East, but at worst that would be the defense’s 4th trick—you still make your contract if East has the last high club"

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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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