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BRIDGE BITES from The American Contract Bridge League A DUMMY REVERSAL By: Brian Gunnell ♠ AQJ None Vulnerable ♥ 875 South West North East ♦ 7532 1♠ Dbl Rdbl 2♦ ♣ QJ8 Pass Pass 2♠ 3♦ ♠ 87 North ♠ 642 3♠ Pass 4♠ All Pass ♥ AJT9 West East ♥ K6 ♦ AK86 ♦ QJT94 N-S stumble into 4♠ and West leads ♦A. Declarer can count 5 Spade tricks ♣ T92 Declarer ♣ 643 and 4 Clubs. That’s 9, where’s the ♠ KT953 10th? A ruff in the “short hand” is a ♥ Q432 common ploy for an extra trick, but that ♦ won’t work here, Dummy has no short ♣ AK75 side-suits. Any ideas? Does ruffing the opening Diamond lead generate a 10th trick? No, that is a ruff in the long hand, that still leaves us with only five trump tricks. But suppose that Declarer ruffs three Diamonds. Now he gets six trump tricks via Dummy’s three high trumps plus three ruffs by Declarer (the long hand). In effect, Dummy becomes the master hand, the hand which will be used to draw the enemy trumps after Declarer has got his ruffs. Therefore, the sequence of plays is: ruff the Diamond lead, cross to the ♠Q, ruff another Diamond, cross to the ♠J, ruff a third Diamond, cross to the ♣Q, draw the remaining enemy trump. This line works whenever trumps are 3-2. The thing to remember here is that Declarer needs three ruffs for the Dummy Reversal to produce an extra trick. It’s that third ruff which reduces Declarer’s trumps to a shorter length than Dummy’s. Actually, it would even be possible for Declarer to get a fourth ruff, but there are insufficient entries to take advantage of this. So, 10 tricks it is. Visit www.acbl.org for more about the fascinating game of bridge or email [email protected] .

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BRIDGE BITES from The American Contract Bridge League DUMMY REVERSAL By: Brian Gunnell ♠ 8642 E-W Vulnerable ♥ KQ9 South West North East ♦ KJ6 1♥ 2♠ 3♠ Dbl ♣ AKQ Rdbl Pass 4NT Pass ♠ AQJT53 North ♠ K97 5NT Pass 7♥ All Pass ♥ 542 West East ♥ 6 ♦ T42 ♦ 9873 N-S do well to reach 7♥. North’s 3♠ said “Good hand with Heart support”, ♣ 4 Declarer ♣ J9853 South’s Redouble showed a control in ♠ Spades, 4NT asked for Aces, and the ♥ AJT873 5NT response said “Two Aces and a ♦ AQ5 void”. That void was clearly in Spades, ♣ T762 so North took a shot at the grand slam. Trusting that the ♠A was not cashing, West led a trump, at which point Declarer could see 12 top tricks. The 13th might come from the Club suit (if the Jack would come down in three rounds), or, if trumps were 2-2 then the 13th trick would come from a Club ruff in Dummy. As you can see, both these lines of play were doomed to failure, but there was a another line available, in the form of a so-called dummy reversal. Instead of counting six trump tricks in her hand plus maybe a single (Club) ruff in Dummy, Declarer reversed her thinking and went for no fewer than four Spade ruffs in her own hand. Here’s how the play started: opening trump lead won in Dummy, Spade ruff, trump to Dummy (East showing out, and putting paid to any ideas of a Club ruff in Dummy) and another Spade ruff. Back to Dummy with a Club, another Spade ruff, back to Dummy with the ♦J, and a fourth Spade ruff.
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