Source: ABF Youth
In an interview with Alex Smirnov (Smirny) made by Andy Hung in 2012, Andy asked him:
Do you have a favourite hand that you would like to share with us?
Yes I do. This was a hand that I declared at the 2010 European Team Championships in Ostende (Belgium) when we played against the Russian Team:
Dubinin started off with three rounds of hearts with Gromov ruffing the third. Gromov immediately returned the jack of trumps and I won it with the Ace. I drew a second round of trumps and found out that West started off with 2-6 in the majors to East’s 3-1. I needed the Q to be onside for the contract to have any chance and my tenth trick may come from either clubs 3-3 or if the diamond finesse is onside. I then played a club to the Ace and finessed successfully with the J, noting Dubinin had shown up with the 109. This was now the position:
Based on West’s club plays, I decided that clubs were more likely to be 2-4 thus placing East’s shape with 3-1-5-4. I now needed to guess the location of the K and here is how I played out the rest of the hand. I played off two trumps – West discarded two hearts, I discarded the 6 from dummy, and East discarded two diamonds.
I now played the final trump discarding the J from dummy and East was now helpless to the criss-cross squeeze. If East discarded the 10 I would then play a diamond to the Ace and with the K dropping, I can come back to hand with K to get to my good Q. If East discarded a club I would then cash my K and with the fourth club in dummy becoming good, the A was the entry to get there. This was particularly satisfying because the hand was broadcasted on vugraph! Andy: Very nice played!
Andy Hung talks about bridge, a few years ago:
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