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ATB in a defense bad card or faulty analisys

#1 User is offline   Hanoi5 

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Posted 2013-October-17, 12:33



West led the diamond 5 to the 4, (Reluctant)K and Ace.
South decided to give a chance to the defence (not knowingly of course) by playing a small heart to the ace and another heart to the T and King.
West returned the spade 3 to the 5, A and Q. East returned... another spade.

Who's to blame?

 wyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:

Also, he rates to not have a heart void when he leads the ♥3.


 rbforster, on 2012-May-20, 21:04, said:

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Posted 2013-October-17, 14:13

I would have switched to the S7 as West to deny a top honor in the suit and help East find the club switch. However, East probably still should've figured it out although it was hard to visualize a club void on the bidding:

1) West led his lowest diamond without an honor in the suit - why?

2) If West really switched from Kxxx spades then South would have 2 spade losers (Qx) and one of them could disappear only in the very unlikely scenario that South has something like Qx Q10xxx AJx KQJ - would he really bid 4NT on that?

So the blame is 35% West, 65% East.
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