{"id":430,"date":"2023-09-24T19:40:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T23:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/?page_id=430"},"modified":"2023-09-24T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T23:41:00","slug":"answer-bridge-problem-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/?page_id=430","title":{"rendered":"Answer: Bridge Problem 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

North
\u2660 8763
\u2665A743
\u266672
\u2663AQ3<\/td>\n		\n

 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

West
\u26605
\u2665 QJ953
\u2666 Q1054
\u26631087
<\/td>\n		\n

 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

East
\u2660KQJ1092
\u266510
\u2666J96
\u2663 J96
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

South
\u2660A4
\u2665K86
\u2666AK83
\u2663K542
<\/td>\n		\n

 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n

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Dealer: East
Vul: Neither<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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E<\/td>\nS<\/td>\nW<\/td>\nN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\u2660<\/td>\nDBL<\/td>\nP<\/td>\n3\u2665<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P<\/td>\n4\u2663<\/td>\nP<\/td>\n5\u2663<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P<\/td>\nP<\/td>\nP<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Opening lead: 5\u2660<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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South must win the \u2660A, take two top trumps in dummy, cash the \u2666AK and ruff a diamond, return to hand with the heart king, and draw the last round of trump (they break). Now a spade play puts East on lead with nothing but spades left (if East ducks the spade, declarer has 11 tricks). When East plays another spade, South discards a heart from hand. Now the next spade from East can be ruffed by South and West is squeezed, having to give declarer the game-going trick in one of the red suits.<\/p>\n

No other way of rectifying the count for the squeeze will work. Ducking a heart to West before trumps are drawn allows East to get a heart ruff. Ducking a heart to West after<\/i> trumps are drawn — which means after the diamond ruff — allows West to cash the fourth diamond or play a heart, eliminating the last entry to dummy.<\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

Return to Bridge Problems<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  North \u2660 8763 \u2665A743 \u266672 \u2663AQ3   West \u26605 \u2665 QJ953 \u2666 Q1054 \u26631087   East \u2660KQJ1092 \u266510 \u2666J96 \u2663 J96   South \u2660A4 \u2665K86 \u2666AK83 \u2663K542   Dealer: EastVul: Neither E S W N 2\u2660 DBL P 3\u2665 P 4\u2663 P 5\u2663 P P P             Opening lead: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/430"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/430\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}