[lamford]

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You lead the ace of hearts, and partner plays the nine, reverse attitude with suit preference overtones when his attitude is likely to be known, according to the CC. Declarer plays the two of hearts. What would you do now?

If you decide to switch to a spade, partner plays the jack and declarer the king, and now declarer leads the six of hearts. You win with the king, partner playing the ten. Over to you.

Apologies if both hands I posted from today's England v Monaco match are known to you.

[rhm]

I would switch to the ♠T playing declarer for

♠K9
♥J862
♦AKQx
♣Kxx


Rainer Herrmann

[lamford]

rhm, on 2013-September-25, 03:02, said:

I would switch to the ♠T playing declarer for

♠K9
♥J862
♦AKQx
♣Kxx

Rainer Herrmann

Partner will play the eight on your 10, and declarer will win with the king, and you will be in again with a heart, partner playing the ten.

[rhm]

lamford, on 2013-September-25, 03:16, said:

Partner will play the eight on your 10, and declarer will win with the king, and you will be in again with a heart, partner playing the ten.

Of course the ♥9 and the ♠8 now look more like a request for clubs. Maybe opener has

♠AKx
♥J862
♦KQJx
♣Jx

or

♠AKx
♥J862
♦AKxx
♣Jx

and that is your last chance to switch to clubs.

Rainer Herrmann

[lamford]

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[lamford]

rhm, on 2013-September-25, 03:21, said:

Of course the ♥9 and the ♠8 now look more like a request for clubs. Maybe opener has

♠AKx
♥J862
♦KQJx
♣Jx

or

♠AKx
♥J862
♦AKxx
♣Jx

and that is your last chance to switch to clubs.

Rainer Herrmann

Declarer, Helgemo, had AKx J862 KQJxx Q. A strong player to whom I gave it as a problem found the club switch. He would have switched to a low spade, but when dummy plays low, he would not have played the jack from J8x. Playing low clarifies the situation and West will definitely switch to a club now. East knows South has AKx.