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Archive for the ‘Declarer Play’ Category

December 8th, 2006

Deep Games

A friend of mine was declaring 4♠ on an uneventful auction. He received the ♠J opening lead.

♠ x

♥ AKxx

♦ AKQT

♣ KTxx

♠ AKxxxxx

♥ J9x

♦ xx

♣ x

Declarer cashed a second spade (both opponents following, West with the ♠T), played 3 rounds of diamonds pitching a club (all follow, no ♦J). He then led a […]

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August 22nd, 2006

Playing in the ABA, part 2.

In the first part of this series, we were faced with the following declarer problem after West bid both majors:
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August 18th, 2006

Playing in the ABA, part 1.

In addition to the ACBL, there is another American bridge orginization, one which has been around about as long: The American Bridge Association. The ABA was created back in the days of racial segregation. Most of its membership consists of Black bridge players, however all events (just as in the ACBL) are […]

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July 31st, 2006

Very Non-simultaneous Squeezes

A double squeeze is a squeeze performed against both opponents.The classical ending is something like this, south to lead (assume no trumps):
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