Bridge news Sheet 286
This week’s bridge news sheet No. 286 has seven articles.
It starts off with a player holding ♠Q7 ♥A ♦KQ987 ♣KQ1083; partner opened 1♥ and he incorrectly responded 2♣ instead of 2♦. Partner rebid 2♥ and then this player jumped to 4♦. Sheer lunacy of course (on both bids) but fortunately partner did not assume that it was a splinter as it should be. 3NT was the top spot and 4♥ went two down. Next we have the same player holding ♠J98 ♥AQ8 ♦K53 ♣AJ64; he chooses to open 1♣ (I would pass, this flat hand does not conform with the The Rule of 20 ). Anyway, LHO bids 1♦, partner bids 1♥ and RHO bids 1♠; what do you bid now? Then we have the two usual Dave columns on the play of the hand and a third one which is a double-dummy problem which one member claimed Deep Finesse had got wrong. Finally there are two articles on trusting partner. In the first one you hold ♠7 ♥J632 ♦K9842 ♣KJ7; RHO opens 1NT and LHO bids 2♣ Stayman, partner doubles this and RHO bids 2♥, LHO bids 2NT which is passed out; what do you lead? On the next deal you hold ♠KJ ♥95 ♦AKJ84 ♣K653 and choose to open a strong 1NT. LHO overcalls a natural 2♥ and partner doubles, what do you do?
