{"id":63,"date":"2015-08-27T13:23:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T13:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bridgecheaters.com\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2015-08-30T18:37:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T18:37:32","slug":"some-of-the-story-part-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bridgecheaters.com\/?page_id=63","title":{"rendered":"Some of the Story &#8211; page 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a hand from the Spingold Final in 2014:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bridgecheaters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/6diamonds.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-87\" src=\"http:\/\/bridgecheaters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/6diamonds.png\" alt=\"6 diamonds\" width=\"585\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bridgecheaters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/6diamonds.png 585w, https:\/\/bridgecheaters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/6diamonds-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What would you lead as North?<\/p>\n<p>To me the bidding calls for an aggressive lead. You would need less in spades (the queen being enough) to set up a trick. Here a spade lead would be an even greater success as you hit your partner with the ace to defeat the contract.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Schwartz chose a heart from four small and declarer had 13 easy tricks. His reasoning? \u201cIt\u2019s dangerous to lead away from kings against a slam\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Another peculiar lead in my view came in the quarter final of the same Spingold (Board 23, Open room):<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgebase.com\/tools\/handviewer.html?bbo=y&#038;linurl=http:\/\/www.bridgebase.com\/tools\/vugraph_linfetch.php?id=34624\">Some browsers has problems with inline display of bbo viewer.Click here if this is the case.<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bridgebase.com\/tools\/handviewer.html?bbo=y&#038;linurl=http:\/\/www.bridgebase.com\/tools\/vugraph_linfetch.php?id=34624\" width=\"600px\" height=\"500px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My take on the situation is that your biggest chance to set the contract is an immediate beat in hearts. You sure need to be lucky with the layout in hearts for this to succeed, but you need to be even luckier with the layout in other suits for those leads to be right.<\/p>\n<p>Ron led a club, which you can see hit his partner really well, but the patient died as declarer had plenty of tricks in diamonds and spades. \u201cWhy did you lead a club?\u201d I asked. \u201cI have to lead my partner\u2019s suit,\u201d he responded. Your partner\u2019s suit, I was thinking. Opening 1 club might be as few as two cards in your system (and even 3+ wouldn\u2019t make it \u201cpartner\u2019s suit\u201d). So how did he know it was his partner\u2019s suit?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bridgecheaters.com\/?page_id=55\">Previous page<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bridgecheaters.com\/?page_id=66\">Next page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a hand from the Spingold Final in 2014: What would you lead as North? To me the bidding calls for an aggressive lead. You would need less in spades (the queen being enough) to set up a trick. Here a spade lead would be an even greater success as you hit your partner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6EW8U-11","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgecheaters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgecheaters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgecheaters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgecheaters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgecheaters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/bridgecheaters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/bridgecheaters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgecheaters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}