Hi all
Here’s a game from one of Dombo’s teams matches last week. It’s a nice deal to analyze. If I could only bring up the concentration to do this during a match instead of post mortem.
South had to play 4 doubled. During the auction West interfered with some number of
and East finally doubled 4
. West starts with the
King. Plan the play!
Let’s do this together. Trumps are very likely to be 1-4 both honours offside, a loser,
are soft and the
have to be tackled as well. Ducking the lead doesn’t do much harm, the
continuation is for your Ace. Draw one round of trumps by running the
Ten. East plays back a
for the King in dummy. Tackle the
now, the Queen and Jack hold but West discards the 2nd round. So trumps and
are 1-4.
This gets complicated.
Cash the Ace and ruff a small
with the
Ace. East discards something. Cross to the
Ace and ruff a
with the Jack. East will overruff, but now South has only trumps left, resulting in three trump tricks in your hand, one in dummy, three
tricks, two in
and the Ace of
.
Full deal:
Without the double South will probably play va banque, double finesse in , and nemesis will overcome him. I wouldn’t double them, maybe it will gain +100 (or an unlikely +300), but warning the opponents into a thoughtful magic plan is a very bad thing.