Two Good Defenses for 3 IMPS

This weekend, in Ireland, it is being played the second and final weekend of the Camrose Trophy 2013. BBO VG broadcasted England vs Northern Ireland.

This time England sat in N / S Robson-Allfrey and E / W Gold-Forrester, Northern Ireland sat on N / S Greenwood-Anderson and in E / W  were Mackenzie-Campbell.

The first two hands were a push, the first difference appeared in the third board. It was only a 3 IMPs swing thanks to the excellent defenses that were developed in the two tables.

In one of the tables N / S played 3NT.

  Double dummy N/S have minimum 6 hearts tricks and 4 spades tricks if the lead isnt a club.

 Forrester lead his 6. Anderson played a little club from dummy and Gold won the trick with his A and switched to his 10, after wining the trick he continued with his 5. Anderson played the K, covered by Forrester. He continued with his K and the J. Gold played the Q and run all his diamonds…3 down….all unique moves to defeat the contract.

 In the other table, N/S chose a different contract, but E/W also found the correct defense… in N/S for England were playing Robson-Allfrey, and Allfrey chose to play 4.

 Mackenzie in East lead his 2, Robson played the K,  Campbell won the trick.

Next came a club switch, East won with the A and played his last club. Now was West who won with his K to return a club, giving his partner a ruff, for one down…all unique moves to defeat the contract.

In both tables the protagonists were the defenders, a failure in any of the defenses would have produced a double-digit swing.

Two good defenses for 3IMPs…really cheap…

The match first segment ended NIreland: 43 – England : 28.

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