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NT: South leads ♣K
This position came up when practising with other juniors. If West discards a spade, you can establish a second spade trick. If West discards a heart, you cash your heart winner then lead a low spade endplaying West.
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name this endgame
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Posted 2011-July-27, 08:24
This position came up when practising with other juniors. If West discards a spade, you can establish a second spade trick. If West discards a heart, you cash your heart winner then lead a low spade endplaying West.
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Posted 2011-July-27, 08:29
manudude03, on 2011-July-27, 08:24, said:
NT: South leads ♣K
This position came up when practising with other juniors. If West discards a spade, you can establish a second spade trick. If West discards a heart, you cash your heart winner then lead a low spade endplaying West.
It's somewhere between a strip squeeze and a dentist's coup.
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Posted 2011-July-27, 08:57
Here's an article about this sort of squeeze, with various names suggested. The author calls it a squeeze-trim-endplay. At the bottom, other people's names for it are given.
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Posted 2011-July-27, 09:29
It doesn't look completely unlike a winkle either.
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