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South African Bridge Federation 2021 Congress – BBO BULLETIN South African Bridge Federation 2021 Congress – BBO BULLETIN #3 Fri 18 June 2021 Content compiled by: Neil Hayward Layout and Design: Shirley Kaminer The Qualifying rounds are now finished and we are moving into the final stretch of the 2021 National Congress Pairs event. Wishing everyone an enjoyable two days at your virtual bridge tables! The final results of the three Qualifying sessions are at the end of this bulletin as well as on the results page of the SABF Congress website. Bumper Stickers Play Bridge: It is Cheaper than Therapy A Bad Day at the Bridge Table is Still Better than Cleaning the House Duplicate Bridge: A Game in Which Agreeable Partners Can be Disagreeable I Have No Free Time. Not Since I Started Playing Bridge. Bridge: A Test of Your Skill Versus Opponents’ Luck Logical thinking in declarer play It is amazing how much information we can gather from a bridge hand and use it to our maximum advantage There will always be clues from the bidding and from the early play. Imagine that you are declarer in the south seat, holding the following hand (comes from a friendly game, as do so many interesting hands). Your side is vulnerable, and the opponents are not vulnerable. Partner is the dealer and the bidding proceeds as follows: North East South West 1C pass 1D 1S Pass pass 2NT pass 3NT pass pass pass West leads the Ace of hearts and you see the following dummy: East encourages and West continues with a small heart. You play the jack (not expecting to win the trick, but mainly for the purpose of cutting communications between the defenders). East wins the queen of hearts and shifts to the 9 of spades. You play small, and West wins with the queen. West now shifts to a small club. You win with the ace and try the jack of diamonds. If the diamond finesse works and the diamonds divide 3- 2, you will have your 9 tricks (1S, 1H, 5D and 2C). Unfortunately for you, West wins the queen of diamonds, and exits with a small diamond which you win in dummy with the ten. When you play the third round of diamonds, West discards a small spade. You now see that the diamond queen was a doubleton. At this point, it is important to picture the opponent’s cards. This can be done by roll calling the suits: • Spades: West overcalled 1S, so he should have 5, so East has a doubleton. • Hearts: West led the ace of hearts, followed by a small heart. (He could have started with a small heart if he had more than 2). Also, when he won the queen of diamonds, he could have played a heart, but he exited with a diamond instead. So, it certainly looks like West started with 2 hearts, so East must have 6. • Diamonds: This suit we know for certain. West has 2 and East has 3. • Clubs: By elimination, the clubs must be 4 with West and 2 with East. So, the full hand could look like this: With West marked with having started with 4 clubs to East’s 2, the odds are 2 to 1 that the club finesse will work. At this point, with 4 cards left, the position will be as follows, with you on lead: You play the 3 of clubs, and when West follows with the ten, you finesse by playing the jack . or do you? In fact, if you think about it, there is no need to finesse. If West has the queen of clubs, the contract is certain without the club finesse. You simply rise with the king of clubs and play your heart winner, discarding your club. West will be under the hammer and will be forced to blank his king of spades to keep the queen of clubs. Now you play a spade to your ace, dropping the king and making the last trick with the ten of spades. On the actual hand, when you rise with the king of clubs, you drop the bare queen from East, thereby reaping the reward for your far-sighted play. Diniar Minwalla More Trivial Pursuit Bridge Questions . 1. What is the name of Charles Goren’s partner, the first woman to play in the Bermuda Bowl? 2. This American President was considered an expert at bridge. 3. This famous comedian played bridge on pretty much a daily basis, and he continued to do so even at the age of 100. 4. Top-notch tennis player who was an avid bridge player. Pterodactyl: A 10-1-1-1 hand Rattlesnake: A 4-4-4-1 hand Rattlesnake with a tail: A 5-4-4-0 hand Salmon: The 7-spot It’s the semi-final of the ABF Zonals vs Tunisia. 4th in hand, no-one vulnerable, you are faced with a decision to bid over a (potentially light) 1S opening. As you are in the middle range for a two suited overcall, and further have no prime in C (it would be different if AS was AC), and for now it looks like it’s the opps hand in S and you don't want to give away the distribution, you decide to pass. When the tray comes back round, you now have another decision. With what looks like an 11 card fit, 1st or 2nd round control in the opps suits, and 1st AND 2nd round control and a source of tricks in the 4th suit, you jump to game in C. Over to you to play the hand...E leads AD under which W throws the K. Switch to 2S, A, Q, 8. Finesse or drop? Neither. Let’s get a count of the hand. AH (4, 6, 9). TH (5, ruff 8C, 2). Ruff a D (2, 3C, 3). KH (7, JS, Q). What do we know? Opps play UDCA with standard remainder count - looks like they are religiously signalling. Opener has 5cS (opened) and 3cH (count); KS, QH, AD that’s 9 HCP. On the bidding and count signals it looks like Responder has 6cD, on his play to trick 1 it looks like KQJxxx, QS stiff and Jxxx of H (so doubleton C). Filling in the gaps, Opener has 4cD and a singleton C. If Responder has the KC, his hand would be QJxxx KQJxxx Kx - I would open that, wouldn't you? So, Opener must have Kxxxx Qxx Axxx K (and that fits with his 3rd in hand opening), so you drop the stiff K of Trumps offside, 8 IMPs in the bag. And the lesson? Don't take critical decisions too early: get a count of the hand from the play and the bidding. P.S. what do you think about the 3C bid? Let’s face it, no 3C, no game... Andrew Cruise A Game Steeped in History Who would believe that bridge played a significant role in American naval history? In 1917 in the Turkish harbour of Constantinople (now called Istanbul), an American gunboat, the Scorpion, was boarded by the Turks, who were German allies. The German navy wanted the Scorpion to be used as a decoy, but the crew much preferred to be interned under Turkish control. The Captain of the ship, Lieutenant-Commander Herbert Babbitt, challenged the Interior Minister, Talat Pasha, to a game of rubber bridge, with the ship as the stake. If Babbitt lost, the Scorpion would go to the Germans. If he won, the vessel would be interned where she was. Babbitt succeeded in bringing home a difficult 4NT contract to win the stake. Talat was true to his word. The Scorpion and her crew remained in Turkish waters until the war was over. For the rest of his naval career he was known as Four Notrump Babbit. Daft Definitions - Bath Coup: getting to use the tub before your roommate. - Doubleton: 4,000 pounds. - Dummy: (see below). - Partner: (see above). - Free Bid: all of them, once you pay your entry fee. - Gerber Convention: annual meeting of baby-food manufacturers. - Reverse Bid: an opening like "Club One." - Roman Discards: Caesar's trash. - Splinter Bid: the only known way to become declarer with a singleton trump in each hand. - Texas Transfer: relocation to a branch office in Dallas. - Trump Echo: a brand new casino in Atlantic City. - Vienna Coup: the mating sound of Austrian doves. - Wolff Sign-off: the ending of Little Red Riding Hood. Strategy at Matchpoints (3): Defensive Play By Kathryn Herz & Eckhard Böhlke Dealer South, none vul: the opponents bid 1NT-3NT; partner leads ©8; sitting East you see the following dummy: ªJ62©J107¨K72§KQ72 N W E ªAQ102©A5¨J765§J83 S How will you defend? Partner has obviously led from a weak suit (either from 98xx or from 8xx), since from an honour he would have led a small card. To beat the contract, you need to find partner with ªKx(x). If South as declarer held a minimum opener of only 15 HCP, this would leave a maximum of 3 HCP for partner West. You expect a probability of perhaps 20% for partner’s potential 3 HCP being exactly ªK (assuming dealer to hold 15 HCP including ©KQ). Do you play for this? Which trick objective do you play for? Yes, at Teams you would go for this worthwhile chance of beating 3NT by ©ace winning the first trick followed by four ªtricks. At Matchpoints, however, your objective is to outscore as many pairs holding your cards as possible. Beating 3NT is not your primary objective.
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