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Finessing – Part One ♠ Q J 9 6 5 Board 2 : Dealer East : NS Vulnerable Finessing – Part One ♠ Q J 9 6 5 Board 2 : Dealer East : NS vulnerable ♥ Q 2 ♠ A K 5 Board 1 : Dealer North : Love all ♦ J 8 7 3 West North East South ♥ Q 8 3 ♣ 8 5 1N (1) Pass ♦ K Q 3 West North East South ♠ A 7 2 ♠ K 10 4 2N Pass 3N All pass ♣ 8 6 4 3 1N (1) Pass 4N ♥ J 9 8 5 ♥ 10 6 3 1 12-14 ♠ 10 8 7 4 3 ♠ 6 2 Pass 6N All pass ♦ Q 9 4 ♦ A 6 2 ♥ 10 9 2 ♥ 7 6 5 4 1 12-14 ♣ A 7 4 ♣ K Q J 10 West, with 11 hcps, would like to be in game if partner can ♦ A 6 2 ♦ 10 9 8 4 provide a maximum hand. Then the two hands will When one flat hand faces another the partnership ♠ 8 3 ♣ 9 2 ♣ K 7 5 provide the (generally) necessary 25 hcps for reaching generally needs 33-34 high card points to make a small ♥ A K 7 4 ♠ Q J 9 game. With the opening bid having a three point range slam in no trumps. South knows that he and North have ♦ K 10 5 ♥ AK J judgment can also be a factor and the opening bidder may between them 31 and 33 hcps (a simple matter of adding ♣ 9 6 3 2 ♦ J 7 5 bid game with a good 13 count. Here West invites with 2N South’s points to North’s known range of points). It is ♣ A Q J 10 and East has a 13 count but it also contains some 10s that reasonable to bid the slam if partner is maximum and may be of use. It also helps that the club suit contains South will invite a slam by raising 1N to 4N. North holds good touching cards. Against that the 4333 shape is 14 hcps and will accept by jumping to 6N. uninspiring but, as we’re in an optimistic mood, East raises to game. ♦ Let’s say East leads a neutral 10. Such passive leads are often correct when 6N has been competently bid. Declarer counts his top tricks. There are seven – two Declarer takes stock. It’s unfortunate that both the spade spades, one diamond and four clubs. From the heart and heart suits show a duplication of values in that the holdings it will be possible to make one heart trick so just combined holdings in each suit will only provide three one other trick will need to be found. The only source tricks despite each one having 10 hcps. Declarer has (barring a second spade that could materialise if East is seven top tricks and can bring the total up to nine by able to make ♠10) is the diamond suit. Declarer will have knocking out the ace of diamonds. The only other source to hope that South has ♦K. With that in mind he plays a of tricks is the club suit where we shall need to make an small diamond towards the queen. When South shows up additional three tricks. The only legitimate chance is to with the king of diamonds, declarer is home. hope that East holds the king of clubs in which case we shall be able to take a finesse against this card and, subject It would be a mistake for declarer to play ♦Q. Whenever to sufficient entries in the North hand, repeat that finesse we are seeking to promote secondary cards to winning until ♣K appears. Declarer wins the opening lead with status we should lead towards them, not lead them. Here ♦Q and plays a club to ♣10. It holds and declarer’s hand if we play ♦Q it will run round to the South hand where it is re-entered with a top spade and the club finesse is captured by the king. We will have started with one repeated ( ♣J played when East plays low). When West diamond winner … and ended up with one winner too. ♣ follows, the clubs are known to break 3-2 so A can be ♣ cashed, K drops, and there are now four club tricks. There are some variations in the play, depending on the Once the club suit has been negotiated declarer can turn lead. Here if South starts with a top heart, that will make his attention to knocking out the ace of diamonds to make declarer’s task easier (and if South continues with a the second diamond trick. The slam can be claimed second top heart, crashing partner’s ♥Q, declarer will quickly thereafter. have two heart winners and the correct diamond play will bring the total to ten). When starting out in the world of bridge it’s common for players to spurn taking finesses, perhaps in the mistaken belief that it’s important to guarantee the taking of known winners (e.g. aces). If such an approach is adopted the odds of succeeding in a contract can be dramatically reduced. Here if declarer plays a club to the ace the contract will only succeed if the clubs break 4-1 and the king is singleton. The chance of that is a little over 5% (or one in twenty) compared with a 50:50 shot when taking the finesse. Stamford Bridge Club Stamford Bridge Club Wednesday Workshop Wednesday Workshop 15 th March 2017 15 th March 2017 ♠ Q J 9 Board 3 : Dealer South : EW vulnerable ♠ 10 9 8 5 4 Board 4 : Dealer West : All vulnerable ♥ 8 6 5 ♥ 8 5 ♦ A J 2 West North East South ♦ 7 2 West North East South ♣ A Q J 4 1♠ ♣ K J 5 2 1N (1) Pass 2 ♣(2) Pass ♠ 8 5 2 ♠ 3 Pass 2♣ Pass 2 ♠ ♠ A Q 3 ♠ K J 6 2♥ Pass 6 ♥ All pass ♥ A 9 2 ♥ Q J 10 7 Pass 4♠ All pass ♥ Q J 9 4 ♥ K 10 6 2 1 12-14 2 Stayman ♦ 10 9 7 ♦ Q 8 6 4 ♦ K Q 6 ♦ A J 3 ♣ 9 7 6 2 ♣ K 10 8 5 North has a good hand but once partner shows a ♣ 9 7 4 ♣A Q 10 Once the heart fit has been found the slam is likely to be ♠ A K 10 7 6 4 minimum(ish) opening he is content simply to raise to 4 ♠. ♠ 7 2 reached. In the above auction East follows a basher’s ♥ K 4 3 ♥ A 7 3 auction and jumps to what he thinks partner will make. ♦ ♦ K 5 3 West, let’s say, starts with a top-of-a-sequence 10. ♦ 10 9 8 5 4 Such auctions can be very effective as they give away little ♦ information. ♣ 3 Declarer can try J but it is covered by the queen and ♣ 8 6 3 taken with the king. Declarer, in a suit contract, tends to count potential losers. After the diamond play at trick North, say, starts with ♠10, a safe lead. Declarer has a one, there could be a diamond to lose and, if ♥A is in the similar problem to North on Board 1 in that there are two West hand, three hearts could be lost. With four potential suits (here spades and diamonds) that each (when losers the contract could be in some jeopardy. Let’s say combined) contain 10 hcps but which only provide three we draw trumps in three rounds and now look at the tricks. Declarer sees that he has a sure heart loser and problem again. must lose no other tricks. His only source of those extra tricks lies in clubs. Yes, if East has the ace of hearts it is simple just to play a heart towards the king and the contract makes. But we Declarer will draw trumps and end up in the West hand. can do better than that. We could take a finesse of ♣Q, Now it is not a simple matter of taking, and repeating, a playing West to hold the king, and that could bring us our finesse. That would be the correct approach if the East tenth trick. Again, however, if the finesse loses, East will hand had ♣A Q J. No, declarer has to realise that taking a be able to play a potentially dangerous heart through our successful finesse of the queen of clubs is not sufficient vulnerable holding. [barring an unlikely singleton ♣J in the South hand ] since a club will later be lost to either the king or knave. Declarer We seem to have identified the East hand as the danger will have to play for what will seem like a minor miracle. hand. As such we should try to play the hand to keep that He will have to hope that North was dealt both the king player off lead. What can we do? Well, North’s club and knave of clubs. He plays a club to ♣10. It holds and holding, importantly, has a touching secondary honour in declarer will get home. He comes back to the West hand the knave. That means that we can give up a club to the and only now takes the “normal” finesse of the queen. king but still make two club tricks. We can play a club to Three spades, three hearts, three diamonds and three the ace and lead ♣Q. When East plays low we throw clubs. All the threes and twelve tricks. either a heart or a diamond and West wins but cannot attack the heart suit. He may exit with a diamond.
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