Saturday 21 July 2007

Example #24 - Second chance

Boards presented here are not about 'normal' bridge. If that were the case there would be no need for this blog in the first place.
So, we feel it's fair to give you a second chance - but this time based on the same information we're convinced Aruf based his action upon when this board was played. For a more realistic approach you might contemplate acquiring a second computer, placing the monitor next to the one you're using right now, and studying the hand record presented below on the new monitor.

You're sitting East, playing with a pick-up partner in a 12-board ACBL-sanctioned tournament on Bridge Base Online.
Bidding is based on standard 5-c major systems like sayc or 2/1, unless stated otherwise.
DealerE
VulAll
ScoringMP
Lead5
QJ64
AT982
93
42
AK32
Q53
K8764
J
T9
K4
AJ52
KQ987
875
J76
QT
AT653

WestNorthEastSouth
  1p
1p1NTp
3p3NTp
pp

You play CJ from dummy, North contributes the C5, you overtake with the CK and fire back C8 (!!) to the C3, S2, and C2.
Plan the play.

Once you've made up your mind you can compare your solution with Aruf's action, presented in the final post about this board.

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