Obscure Preacaution por Jose Le Dentu
The following deal from the 1976 France-Austria match is a good exercise…Photo: Jaïs, Albarran, Le Dentu,Peeters en 1949.
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31st European Bridge Championships 1974, Herzlia
The following deal from the France-Austria match is a good exercise:
Dealer: North Vul: E/O
West | East |
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Buchmeier | InDerMaur |
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4NT | 5![]() |
5NT | 6![]() |
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The End |
South leads: 8
What trump should the declarer play to make seven diamonds?
The only danger lies in a 5-0 trump break. If North is void, as happens to be the case, there is still a chance.
Declarer must be able to cash three club tricks, for heart discards, the heart ace, two top spades, a heart ruff and wind up with a high cross ruff.
Therefore, it is essential for South to have at least three clubs and at least a doubleton in both major suits. Declarer must take his heart ruff with the diamond four, so the three must be played from dummy at the first trick, preserving the ace-jack-ten.
If East makes the slight error of winning the first trick with the diamond ten, he could be defeated if South has no more than a doubleton spade. South can ruff spades at every opportunity, and eventually the dummy cannot overruff.
As it happened, South had only a doubleton club, and the grand slam was unmakeable on any line. (His hand was: 8 7
K 10 4 2
8 7 6 5 2
8 2.)
In the other room, the French pair Leenhardt-Vial rested conservatively in six diamonds, just making.
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