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Again two boards from monday 06-12-2004, Atomic-bridge.

Problem: what do you lead ?

Solution at the end.

North	West	North	East	South
7 6	P	1	Dbl	p
J 8 3 2	3NT	ap
A K Q
K 10 9 8

Against the same opponents, one of them I recognized as the winner of the pairs tournament at Brasov we had a little succes.

23 Z/All	North Louis		North	East	South	West
	A 8 7 6 2		-	-	1	p
	Q 10 9		1	p	3	p
	7 6 4		4	dbl	4	p
West	A K	East	4	p	5	p
Q J 10 9 5		K 3	6	ap
7 5 2		4
Q 3		10 9 8 5 2	4		1 control
8 4 2	South Truus	Q 10 9 7 3		5	2 control
	4
	A K J 8 6 3
	A K J
	J 6 5

I, North, had no idea if it could be slam, but the boards were srted out so you are suspicious.

After the -lead Truus draw trumps twice, played A K and to the A.

Next came J ruff and A, and down came Q from West.

Truus thought that West maybe was short in , and because West also was short in a -finess was useless. So she played to the K, and ended with 6 +1.

Solution

24 W/-	North Louis		North	East	South	West
	7 6		-	-	-	p
	J 8 3 2		1	dbl	p	3NT
	A K Q		ap
West	K 10 9 8	East
Q 9 8 4		A K J 10
A 7		K Q 6 4
9 8 6 5		10 7 4
A J 6	South Truus	Q 7
	5 3 2
	10 9 5
	J 3 2
	5 4 3 2

I started with Q, 3^efrom above and also a -signal.

Because South played 3 the first trick I missed 2, therefore South was encouraging.

After K and A I continued with . The declarer played 4 times , on which I discarded 2 . Then came 9 and I had no choice. A and West has two tricks in clubs.

A and East can score 4 -tricks.

It doesn’t help, 3NT +1 is the result.

This squeeze can allways be executed, unless you are in time with the -suit.

So the lead of a small , and after declarer plays persist again in playing gives you in time a -trick. So start from your length, normal isn’t it?

Then you beat the pairs who reached and made 4.

Greetings from Louis, the dutch player.