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Where do you leak the most points?

#81 User is offline   jogs 

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Posted 2013-August-29, 13:35

I think most players leak more points on defense than any other area of the game.
Even with a post mortem most players do not find errors in their defense.

Today with online play, it is possible to study how boards were defended
at other tables. Players breaking contracts often produce a line which
never occurred to you.
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Posted 2013-August-29, 13:55

View Postjogs, on 2013-August-29, 13:35, said:

Today with online play, it is possible to study how boards were defended
at other tables. Players breaking contracts often produce a line which
never occurred to you.


Or, alternatively, you see that declarers who failed all took different lines, and no one broke the contract on their own, suggesting that your own defense wasn't in error. It's a weakish negative inference, but it's not worthless.
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Posted 2013-August-29, 16:59

View Postjogs, on 2013-August-29, 13:35, said:

Players breaking contracts often produce a line which
never occurred to you.

I strongly suspect that most of these players, on BBO, are declarer.
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