Very well explained

I picked up this hand from the Vu graph records. On one of the other tables, Sandip Thakral made nine tricks in 3Nt by concocting four Diamond tricks just about the same way as described here, and used South as a stepping-stone to the fourth Diamond in the Dummy. Details in this article. bridgeduniya.com/the-spots-and-the-auction/

Nice hand! If you are confident that South is 2155 (I am) then a better play is to win the lead in dummy, take a heart finesse, cash the SAK then exit a club. South is endplayed into playing a diamond, and you have the entries to take two more finesses against them. This avoids relying on the singleton 6, 8 or 9 of diamonds.

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Sensible Acol bidding goes : 1D-1H-4H end. With Hearts 2-2 you probably make it as Diamonds are 4-3 and can be set up if necessary. If South plays a Club through Dummy's Void you just let it go and North can take his Ace - you can now make 1 trick in each of the side suits ( 3 in all ) and 7 trump tricks to make 10 tricks.

You're probably stuffed if CA doesn't come down on the 2nd round , particularly if North wins CJ and plays back a trump. Most Souths would play CA on the first Club , holding only Ax. Finessing C10 on the first round of the suit is extremely risky.

Great - I absolutely agree with you. The Convention card is so complicated, that it's a nightmare to read / understand. Making a simple one is the best option. 😀

Excellent. Thanks.

nice hand - I love a double squeeze 🙂

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Agree with you 100%

Yes psyches should be allowed

Hi Panja I agree with you and Venky about 0:19 opening 2C is not great and would take the auction into a wild spin. However the Par contract of 6S can be reached in both 2/1 and Precision Using 2/1 responder should rebid 3D (3NT shuts the door - a hurried action) to give room for exploration ( After all opener could have 6H or 3S as evidenced) A 3S bid would enthuse responder to make a slam move thus cross 3NT - The question is what would be a slam move here that would not cause confusion- It is 4D… Now North needs to bid 5D as EKCB and eventually discover absence of the SQ and rest in 6S.(This requires a fair amount of partnership understanding) On the contrary in Precision I disagree with your suggested auction. Clearly the opener can see Grand slam potential after a 1S positive response by responder. The 3C rebid by opener can throw the spanner into the works and cast doubts. Instead a simple 3S bid would elicit a 4C cue-bid and opener can check for the trump Q and get to 6S. Yes the Precision auction is easier. (There is a case for opener to rebid 2C instead of 2H… Now 2D by responder..2S… 6S. ( By now the 1C opener knows almost all about the responder’s hand and has plenty of space to explore slam. Let me know if I missed something here. Kista

What happend in the slam? Who Won? Could the team complete the contract of 6 NT means 12 tricks?Pl. Reply.

Probably the number of Bridge help sites is more, because Bridge is more popular than Chess?

3C should have been re transfer for Diamonds slam interest

Panja, given the bidding , there is an even better line of declarer play. Draw trumps, and eliminate hearts. This gives away at least 11 cards (at least 7 clubs to KQ, 3 hearts, 1 spade. Then play the AK of diamonds and throw East in with club J for a ruff and discard.

Your analysis is not right, given the bidding

Great Video ❤

Interesting. I wish they showed this stuff on the leaderboard. I have a higher loss rate and lower tie rate because I play very heavily for the cube. I am not sure it’s the best style but I have fun doing it. Youth :) lol tell that to my kids.

I wonder if kingsladin is several people using the same account.

How do you view your stats like at 00:40?

Please Close that Window Curtain on Back.

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Cannot see cards

Why West Ely Did Not Open His Hand ?

Best line to make 6C, Thank you and looking forward to many more such videos.

Next time perform pooja at the table before playing to avoid bad luck

Sir, your comments on board no 8,9 and 11 are good . However I would like to add further comments On board no 8 west was right to balance with a double because he had 4 spades If he had good hand, about opening hand he could have bid 2H on 2D transfer by south . A balancing double says he had few high card points and 4 cards of spades Whatever, east was outright wrong in competing to 4D.If he thinks that he is making 4D then the opponents are sure to go down in 3H Even 3Diamond contract goes down , so south should have thought before competing to 3H which goes two down , he should consider himself lucky not to get doubled On board 9 it is a close decision whether to open with this 12 point hand by north . Even if it satisfies 20+2 condition the hand has many losers ( 8 to 81/2) and once north decides to open then the bidding has to be precise South has 12 points and invitational hand against 12 points minimum. In our methods we show stoppers with maximum at least 14 points up So north should bid 3clubs to show minimum hand and south should pass Not all 24 point hand make game At the other table a heart lead was too timid . West has 2 HCP and hence his partner should have 12 to 14 HCP . In order to defeat the contract he must require some tricks in diamonds and a 4th best diamond lead is best On board 11 both east were right in a jump shift of 3 diamonds to show a strong hand . However in standard ,openers reverse bid in second suit and even after a strong jump shift should not be taken too seriously about length in second suit ( 3card suit is quite common but anything less than 3cards should be alerted) especially when opener rebid his first bid suit) At both tables the hand was overboard in 5D and 5H At one table 5D was two down but at the other table east was lucky to score 5H because of KQ of spades doubleton and heart queen dropping in two rounds of hearts . That was a lucky swing Your further comments are required about all three hands

If Robot had KQXXX of clubs he would not remove trumps but play a spade at trick two When the king held he would have continued with spade queen and established two spades in dummy when there are two sure entries in dummy with heart king and club ace So ducking the spade ace twice will not defeat the contract but may allow declarer to score an overtrick and a bad score Playing spades twice from the hand suggests his clubs are semi solid without the jack , otherwise he would have tried to establish spades before playing trumps

You are right A heart 10 lead from K109 is dangerous against certain lie of cards Looking at both black aces west should know that all diamond ace king and queen of diamonds is either with declarer or dummy . So there is no harm in leading a passive trump and play awaiting game As the cards declarer cannot park his 4th spade but a heart lead May cost a trick if declarer had QX or AX in hearts

There is no need to play for a guard squeeze as described by you . Why not take double finesse in diamonds and score 5H 4D 2SP 1Cl? You can make all 13 tricks if diamonds are 3-3 and both queen and jack are with east

found it difficult sir

done sir. you shuffle cards with finesse.

Completed Sir

Good introduction Dr

P.S. At 18:15, deal 23, defending against East's 3Nt contract, I mention that North's small card will be the deciding factor in the game. On enquiries, I found out that NS play Rusinow and lead of a K is the big lead, asking for unblock or count. Accordingly, on the lead of the HK, Keyzad, sitting North gave a count with H2. Technically, in their method, the HQ would have been the correct lead. North would then have been able to indicate encourage/discourage, out here, discourage Hearts by playing a High card after which South might have found the killing shift to a small Club.

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Interesting anecdote to prove your point but it's at best a single data point...Luck vs Skill is an interesting debate and in all sports some luck exists ...and at what proportion is the key question...Most of the sports (governing) bodies are working towards a system which is more towards skill than luck.... Random errors don't prove any biases unless the trend is established on a larger data set....

Board 19 is interesting. A very sharp declarer could consider ducking the CJ. It is a cost nothing play if you assume the lead is unlikely from KJT

What happened in board 22

well done Puja ji

I Would Have taken Liberty to Open 2C

Hello. Great conduction and analysis ! 👍🙏 ( A query. Will the contract make without a Trump lead ? )

Super KRV

The second heart spot you played was different. Did the other 4S+2 also play a different heart spot? It is possible that influenced the hand generation algo and resulted in it playing for the drop.

That defence doesn't beat it. Declarer cash's one trump and makes 1 club,1 diamond, 1heart and 7 spades ( ruffing 2 clubs high )

Sir, my comments are as follows A) Playing support redouble South’s pass is good news for north as he knows that south can have at the most two spades and his spade losers can be ruffed by south in a diamond contract. North has six diamonds and four spades and a highly unbalanced hand Therefore North should reevaluate his hand based on East’s double showing a good hand, probably showing remaining two suits hearts and clubs B) The only way north can reevaluate his hand is by Adjusted modern losing trick count method. North has 1) 1 1/2 losers in spades 2) 2 losers in hearts 3) 1 1/2 losers in diamonds after deducting 1 1/2 losers from 3 obvious losers in diamonds ( Deduct 1/2 loser for 8 card diamond fit , 1 loser for 9 card fit and 1 1/2 losers for 10 card fit ) as south is most likely to have 4 diamonds even playing preparatory diamond opening 1 loser in clubs The total no of losers in North’s hand works out to be 6 C) 1 Diamond opening by south promises a 7 loser hand. Therefore as per the loser theory the total no of tricks available for N/S in a diamond contract are 24 - ( 7+6 ) =. 11 D ) The next to consider is “ Positional values “ In view of east’s Double of 1SP showing a good hand , north knows that all south’s values are working values , meaning all finesses and kings are likely to win through east E) North knows that a 5 Diamond contract is likely to make though not 100% sure F) Therefore in a team game north should jump to 5Diamonds as a two way shot ,as competing only upto 3Diamonds or 4 Diamonds is conservative Comments are invited from the members

The pass of 2 spades doubled ( which was a take out double, converted to penalties by partner ) cannot BY ITSELF be sufficient evidence of an illicit or undeclared agreement. West can be almost certain that 4 hearts is on for his opponents, so he took a view, minus 200 or minus 500 was better than 4 hearts making.

The odds change when East has 6 clubs. You should finesse for of diamonds