4th World Youth Open Championships Official SiteÂ
Opatija, Croatia • 20 – 29 August 2015
In 8 of the Opatija 2015 World Youth Championships daily bulletins was posted a series of bridge problems called: Put Yourself to the Test, where you could trie to solve two or three questions, and you could find the answers only a few pages after.
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We will be posting the excelente series…one per day, remember that they are designed for the championships participants.
Bulletin 3
Bidding Problem
1. With both sides vulnerable, you pick up:
What would you do now, if anything?
Card Play Problem
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and afterwards
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Bidding Problem
1. With both sides vulnerable, you pick up:
What would you do now, if anything?
The quiz on the first day featured a hand that had already been described perfectly, so it was right for South to pass. Here, though, South’s hand is much stronger than North could possibly imagine.
South must not bid less than game. I think a jump to five diamonds is sensible. If your partner has a sense of humor, you might bid three notrumps, especially if playing in a pair event.
A third choice is three spades, but that would typically be showing a two-suiter.
Card Play Problem
South must win two spades, three hearts, four diamonds and four clubs. This requires taking four finesses, two in hearts, one in diamonds and one in clubs. So declarer needs four dummy entries. He must make careful use of his spot-cards.
After winning the first trick, South must lead the nine of diamonds or the seven of clubs; let’s say he starts with diamonds. He takes the trick with dummy’s ace, plays a diamond to his jack, cashes the king of diamonds, and returns to dummy by overtaking his carefully conserved seven of diamonds with the eight.
Now he takes a heart finesse.
Then declarer leads the seven of clubs to dummy’s ace, plays a club to his jack, cashes the king of clubs, and overtakes the four of clubs with dummy’s five.
South takes the second heart finesse and claims!
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