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This was board 56 of England v Italy. Reese won HK at trick one, and switched to a club, playing partner for a doubleton heart, two club tricks and a trump trick assisted by a third round of hearts. A reasonable, and probably successful alternative would have been to cash the second heart before playing a club. So if Reese knew Schapiro had a singleton heart, he was straining not to take advantage of the information.
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Posted 2014-May-09, 10:02
This was board 56 of England v Italy. Reese won HK at trick one, and switched to a club, playing partner for a doubleton heart, two club tricks and a trump trick assisted by a third round of hearts. A reasonable, and probably successful alternative would have been to cash the second heart before playing a club. So if Reese knew Schapiro had a singleton heart, he was straining not to take advantage of the information.
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Posted 2014-May-09, 14:34
When partner holds a singleton heart declarer holds 4 so the losers in that suit will not necessarily go away.
wyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:
Also, he rates to not have a heart void when he leads the ♥3.
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Posted 2014-May-11, 18:07
The preceding board 55 is also worth recalling, and even has a historical laws point to it:
In the closed room, Garozzo and Forquet bid 1S-2S-4S. This could have been defeated by a difficult defence starting with a diamond force, but Reese led a club and Garozzo had no trouble making ten tricks. In the open room, Avarelli knew* that his partner had short hearts, so he risked a take-out double of 1S. Rose raised pre-emptively, and Gray waited for Avarelli to reach the hopeless 5C before saving in 5S. The Italians then bid a much more promising 6D. Rose might have selected the winning heart lead had Gray bothered to bid the suit, but as it was he led a spade. The contract is now easy to make by ruffing spades, drawing trumps, and knocking out the ace of clubs, but Avarelli carelessly played a trump to his ace instead. Somewhat embarrassed by the 4-0 trump break, he then led a club to the queen, ruffed a spade, and led another club. The tournament book bizarrely claims that "North could have insured the set by ducking again" - not so, declarer simply ruffs another spade, draws trumps and concedes the ace of clubs. Rose instead gave the Italians a chance to go wrong by rising with the ace, and Belladonna, normally an outstanding player of the dummy, erred by playing the three of clubs. Under the 1963 laws, the defence was entitled to accept an illegal suggestion by dummy, and Gray promptly did so by following suit. Rose switched to the king of hearts, and Avarelli was one off.
*sorry, ignore that, I've got the allegations mixed up
In the closed room, Garozzo and Forquet bid 1S-2S-4S. This could have been defeated by a difficult defence starting with a diamond force, but Reese led a club and Garozzo had no trouble making ten tricks. In the open room, Avarelli knew* that his partner had short hearts, so he risked a take-out double of 1S. Rose raised pre-emptively, and Gray waited for Avarelli to reach the hopeless 5C before saving in 5S. The Italians then bid a much more promising 6D. Rose might have selected the winning heart lead had Gray bothered to bid the suit, but as it was he led a spade. The contract is now easy to make by ruffing spades, drawing trumps, and knocking out the ace of clubs, but Avarelli carelessly played a trump to his ace instead. Somewhat embarrassed by the 4-0 trump break, he then led a club to the queen, ruffed a spade, and led another club. The tournament book bizarrely claims that "North could have insured the set by ducking again" - not so, declarer simply ruffs another spade, draws trumps and concedes the ace of clubs. Rose instead gave the Italians a chance to go wrong by rising with the ace, and Belladonna, normally an outstanding player of the dummy, erred by playing the three of clubs. Under the 1963 laws, the defence was entitled to accept an illegal suggestion by dummy, and Gray promptly did so by following suit. Rose switched to the king of hearts, and Avarelli was one off.
*sorry, ignore that, I've got the allegations mixed up
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