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School of Bridge
Quiz 12 Card Play Summary
You are West
Contract = 3NT
lead = ♠4 south playing the ♠9
- ♠KJ8
- ♥ 95
- ♦AQ1087
- ♣A32
- ♠ 54
- ♥AQJ104
- ♦J92
- ♣KQ4
Possible Answers
a)Duck the first trick then play on hearts
b)Duck the first trick then play on diamonds
c)Win the first trick, play a club to the king and run the jack of diamonds
d)Win the first trick and run the 9 of hearts
b)Duck the first trick then play on diamonds
c)Win the first trick, play a club to the king and run the jack of diamonds
d)Win the first trick and run the 9 of hearts
The Answer
Answer c)
Your top winners are 1♠ , 1♥ , 1♦ and 3♣ - six winners you therefore need a further 3 winners and these can come from hearts or diamonds. If you duck the first trick then South can fire a spade through your KJ holding into North's AQxx spade holding and you are down before you can blink an eye. You therefore win the first trick and then must keep South off lead. You therefore take the diamond finesse into the safe hand i.e. North.