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From: halle1@houxz.UUCP (J.HALLE)
Newsgroups: net.rec.bridge
Subject: Re: TYP:R24 solution
Message-ID: <846@houxz.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Jun-84 15:53:41 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 12 15:53:41 1984
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Lines: 13

A slight variation on Rob's line:
Although it is likely that east has the queen of clubs, it is not certain.
So when leading the clubs, lead the J.  If west covers, then follow Rob's
line.  If west follows low, you must judge where the queen is.  If you play
west for it, say if he hesitates noticibly, finesse, then play AK of clubs.
If east discards a diamond, duck a diamond as in Rob's solution.  If east
throws a spade, lead the fourth club, winning in hand.  Now lead a spade,
ducking to east.  If east has an honor, he can defeat you by rising with
it, so you need east to have all three, though if west was poor enough to
telegraph the club, he probably is not good enough to play high on the spade.
Thus the exact line depends a good deal on table feel.  With nothing else
to go on, Rob's line is probably best, since it requires only three cards
to be right, as opposed to this line which requires four.