Today started the European Mixed Teams Open Championship, with a field of 114 teams. On Round 3 of the ten RR rounds, Board 22 generated important swings on many tables, ....
Today's hand builds on our recent theme of planning your play before playing to trick 1 (and re-planning at about trick 3 or 4 if the play provides further information).
It is really a good advice for the declarer not to hurry after the lead when dummy goes down. Don’t be mislead by a world champion who immediately touches a card from dummy.
"Counting the hands" that is, determining the distribution of a suit in all four hands, is one of the things in bridge play which the beginner finds difficult, and ...
In the other room things were very different, let's see: With an auction that undoubtedly produced some kind of problem in the pair, Kalita ended up being the declarer of a 4 hearts contract, played in 4-2 fit.
The auction was the same at bouth tables in a team game. Each West began with the three top hearts, Both declarers ruffed the third heart, then cashed the ace and king of trump. Thereafter their paths diverged.
The ability to cross from hand to hand enables declarer to take advantage of finesse positions; lead toward strength; and prepare the ground for endplays.
