Wednesday 1 October 2008

Vitruvian Man

Dear Bridge Players,

Todays I feature another Italian artist at work. Leonardo Cima (nickname 100dog) played this hand on BBO on the 28the Sep 08. He was playing on the Stars team Vs Jimmy Caynes team.

The Hand:
DealerS
Vul-
ScoringImp
Lead8
KJ87
T943
86
T76

6543
5
J32
98542
AQ9
AK762
K
AKQJ

T2
QJ8
AQT9754
3



The Bidding:
WestNorthEastSouth



3
ppXp
3p4p
pp

The Play:
North lead the D8 and South (Jimmy Cayne) won the Ace and switched to his singleton club and
all eyes were on on Leonardo. He won the club perforce in dummy and cashed the HA and ruffed a H and finessed with the trump queen.

At this point Leonardo realised that the contract was makable. South has 7 diamonds and most likely to have a singleton club. If he holds two trumps, Leanardo was cold for the contract.
Accordingly, he cashed the ace of trumps, cashed the HK and two more top clubs, ruffed a h and scored a diamond ruff.

The crowd went wild.

Have a good game,
Rueful

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