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School of Bridge
Quiz 4 Question 4 Anything to declare
You are declarer(West) - How do you proceed?
Contract = 6♠
lead = ♥K
- ♠ KQ762
- ♥ A432
- ♦ AK4
- ♣ 2
- ♠ A543
- ♥ 6
- ♦ Q87
- ♣ AJ432
You have 3 choices – which one is right?
a) Crossruff - by winning the heart lead and ruffing hearts in dummy and clubs in your hand.
b) The suit establishment game - Draw the trumps straight away then try and establish the clubs by ruffing in your own hand
c)Try the ruffing game - ruff two heart losers in dummy crossing back to your hand by playing a diamond to your ace. Draw trumps when you have finished taking your ruffs.
a) Crossruff - by winning the heart lead and ruffing hearts in dummy and clubs in your hand.
b) The suit establishment game - Draw the trumps straight away then try and establish the clubs by ruffing in your own hand
c)Try the ruffing game - ruff two heart losers in dummy crossing back to your hand by playing a diamond to your ace. Draw trumps when you have finished taking your ruffs.
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Answer c)
This only requires the diamonds to break 6-1 and the hearts 5-3.
Even if one of the breaks is worse that this you may still be able to make the contract with a compensating favourable distribution in the spades
This only requires the diamonds to break 6-1 and the hearts 5-3.
Even if one of the breaks is worse that this you may still be able to make the contract with a compensating favourable distribution in the spades
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