Dear BBOers, have a go at trying to solve these bridge problems. Depending on your answer you’ll score between 0 to 5 points per question. Your overall score will be displayed, along with the correct answers once you’ve complete the quiz. Good luck!
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28 responses to “Quiz: Test your bridge skills #17”
Far be it for a neophyte like me to critique your answer on B 1, but, 2D is a minimal response showing length. No bid on my part can convey 7 hearts and with a minimal holding in dummy, I’m very concerned about 3 bum clubs not to mention the H King. 4 H forces a game, partner can inquirer Aces but I have set the suit. If partner has the H king he/she can investigate for slami, if he has more than a long raggedy diamond suit.
Also, 6H would be defeated on continued trump leads
With minimal pts left in majors he or she’s would possibly have something in clubs but 3 hearts is a better bid but I don’t know what system we’re playing?
3H
Good lesson to tske hearts from dummy so opppnents cant ruff diamonds
3H
2S far too ambitious on board 1. 1H could show only four hearts.
sorry, ignore previous – I meant the 4H bid on bd 2. 1H there might only show 4, so 3H might only show 5 – not enough for 4H with only 2.
Since 2NT denies 3 cards in H, then 3H shows 6, 100%.
2NT denies 3 cards in H, hence 3H can only mean 6 cards, or as a worse case scenario, 5H with preference to play a suit contract. Either way, Qx is a good support.
In question 1, a trump lead makes the hand very interesting. Player has not enough time to ruff the third club (that would have been his twelfth trick) so he must work with diamonds. How to manage this suit depends on the division of the tricks and of the diamonds. Player starts playing Ace of diamonds and a diamond ruffed in hand. If Q or J of diamond are played by any of the opponents, the player continues with Ace of hearts and a small heart to the king. If the whole of the opponent’s trump fall, he plays J of diamonds and, if he doesn’t see the other honor, simply discards a club; the other will be placed on the ten of diamonds, having still in dummy the Ace of clubs. In this way, South doesn’t have to guess the position of the diamonds. If the ruff of the second diamond produces nothing interesting, the only remaining chance (unless a very unlikely squeeze) is finding both red suits well shaped. Note that, in this case, he reaches 13 tricks, while – against a different lead – the correct play (ruff in dummy of the third club) will have produced only 12: a top score, playing MP!
if, composing the problem, the creator would have made (almost) sure the slam without alter the bid, simply he could place the ten of hearts in dummy instead of the six. In this way, the dummy has three winners and the chance to establish dummy’s diamonds becomes very higher
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B1-On a bad day my partner would pass 2S. On a better day bid 3D or 3S leaving me to punt 4H. My choice of 3H is the best bid for my partner (who raises to 4H). I am happy to miss the dodgy slam. Perfect partners are rarer than hen’s teeth.
It’s always a bad day when you play with partner who passes forcing bids. And it’s a bad day when you make a nonforcing bid (3H) with a game forcing hand. If 2S is too esoteric for you, the only other possible choice is 4H.
Thanks,interesting to play with these comments.
Lots to learn for me.
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One can see from the responses that not everyone is accustomed to New Minor Forcing in the non-notrump context nor the False Reverse.
Practice these conventions with apropos hands you can deal at a BBO Bidding Table via a constraint file I authored for just this purpose.
See http://www.charlesandgerry.com/bridge/constraints.html#FalseReverse
examples 3: “Therefore, play ♥A and another Heart to remove the trumps from dummy and sabotage their plan. Declarer is hopeless now, losing 2 more Spades (3 including the ♠K) and the ♥A.” You’re wrong. After S plays the 6 ♥ W it is squeeze and must keep 4 ♣ and 2 ♦. S will play A♠ (W will play a ♦) then A♦ and S end play W in ♣ to win J♣ (if 8 ♣ of S changes to 7 ♣ of W and if 5 ♣ of S changes to 6 ♣ from E then S will no longer make a contract). To see all the possible variants, all the lead (on a ♣ lead S will not be able to make 4 ♥) and all the possible play see in https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IruBmPwrV6thI_PhKoSIDFY9jHBOZyRd?usp=sharing which is a database with a lot of other facilities (for help ramocanu@yahoo.com).
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I enjoy your quiz very very much
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How can you not cue bid with this hand on no 2? It is bad beyond belief.
The answer to problem 1 depends on unknown partnership agreements. Many people play a jump rebid in this situation as forcing. If that were the case here then 3H is the obvious standout bid.
agree 3h is forcing bid without a Gf hand 3h over a repeat of 2d is an overreach
Excellent
These probelms are very interesting and common to bridge
I play basic Acol with 4CM and weak NT. I gather all these questions are for 5CM.
Hand 2
2NT see 12-14H and stop club
In North Q76 AK9864 3 AD5
in south better 3S or 4H ?