After my “properly prepared” 1♥ opener, I thot I had a ♣ stopper or two – so I admitted to 2NT/ pard’s 2♠.
Can you imagine my astonishment when scruv (Wayne Penrod) offered me 3♣ – and West WHAKKED it?
After that random act of violence, each opponent thot the other had a big ♣ stack! We made them pay full price when W led… ♥A – and scruv suddenly claimed 4 XX overtrix for +1440. (the XX insult is now +100)
Bidding El Grande wudda also been worth exactly +1440 (and 1 pair strained to bid & make 7♣ from the North). But we sure saved a lotto effort, and extra time to gloat!
I think we can get there easily if I open 1♣ – 11S; 2♣ – 7♣! Or if 1♥ -2♦; 3♣ – 5NT.
GIB proves that 7♣ makes with any opening lead from either side, even a trump lead from East! Just play ♠A-K-ruff, and when Qxx falls, now the ♠J stands up for 3+ 0 + 1 + 9 = 13 trix on our dreaded Crossrufficus Giganticus!
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5 responses to “+1440 – The Easy Way”
My Gib tells me, you can’t make 7C in S, when west leads a spade into your tenace.
Great post. Amaze-balls hand has me bamboozled. It’s 2 days later, and I think I can describe it. East threatens to overruff Ds, so it’s NOT a Crossrufficus. A❤️ OL from West gives up a free trick, and positions the play properly to eventually draw trump! (Ergo, a “tempo” ) A S OL from West does NOT cede an extra S trick that can always be established & cashed anyhoo, so the D overruff threat dooms the journey. What is so perplexing is that a D OL from West DOES cede the extra trick, but fouls the carburetor, and no matter how you play (100 tries) the engine clunks out a trick short. (Ergo, the trick, but NOT the “tempo”) Furthermore, by extention, I can’t imagine ANY OL vs 7C by East could ever allow it to make. Alas, I can’t recover the original BBO record to check the GIB, or discover how North bid and made 7C. But I must now admit fraud, withdraw my story, and commit suicide. Goodbye cruel world 😵
Enjoyable article, flaws included. Good reply post, as long as you only symbolically fall on your sword. Stick around and keep writing. I’m not sure what engine you’re using that can’t make 7C on a diamond lead, but GIB can, and it’s quite INTERESTING. It appears that after a partial cross-ruff, South has a criss-cross squeeze in the 5 card ending with H-KQJ & C-Qx in dummy and D-Axx & C-Jx in hand. He leads the CJ and West with H-Ax & D-KJx is squeezed. South wins in the hand with length in the suit West unguards, and sets it up with one ruff, for his 13th trick.
You can see with GIB here that South can make 7C even if he ducks an opening low heart lead in dummy and has to ruff it, so it’s no surprise that any heart lead by East with North declaring allows it to make. The only other lead by East that let’s it make is the club 7 (not 10 or 9), as the extra hand entry allows sufficient heart ruffs to set up the final heart-diamond squeeze against West. Analysis with Double Dummy Solver 9.88.
WOW. I thot i did all the work on EVERYTHING, even the C7 OL by E, and any ❤️ by E, let alone a D OL by W, and I couldn’t ever get there from here! I must admit, the black- magic triple repeater-ass trump squeeze is above my pay-grade, Einstein. 😝🥵🤬🤯
I am tearing my hair-out!! “bobmarhe”s DDS 9.88 black-magic criss-cross repeater-ass triple-squeeze works! after a !D OL from West – as long as declarer takes ZERO !H ruffs in his hand!! The quoted 5-card end position requires !CJx opposite !CQx to diddle the J. That means the !CAK must be cashed off to reduce E to stiff 10 (otherwise, a trump will be promoted if W unguards !Hs). There is just 1 specific order/ jillion that succeeds: 1!DQ. 2!Druff. 3/4!SAK(H)). 5!Sruff. 6!CK. 7!CA. 8!SJ(H). to reach Nirvana!!
I now see how the !C7 OL by E scores 13 trix. But I still cannot clarify a specfic route if E leads a !H. (And am I to understand that E sets 7!C with !S, !D, and/or !C9-10 OL, as I predicted?) Can you juice R2D2 to ease my worried mind, bob? bob? (whimper)