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Quiz – Play and Defense for Beginners #2

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50 responses to “Quiz – Play and Defense for Beginners #2”

  1. Anonymous

    How did I do?

  2. Anonymous

    Very enjoyable and informative thank you

  3. Mike Slinn

    thanks!

  4. Anonymous

    educational

  5. Mary Ane Flanagan

    Enjoyed the challenge………..MAF

    1. Loddington

      Thank you good lessons!

  6. Anonymous

    fun and it made me think, even if wrong

  7. Anonymous

    Enjoyed

  8. Beginner

    Very enjoyable, explanations are excellent.

  9. BEATRICE BOOTH

    I’ve been advised never to lead from a doubleton unless your partner bid the suit.

  10. Norm Farber

    On #7, spades are trump and I’m defending. Leading the ace and then another trump forces East to create his/her own tricks and reduces any ruffs in dummy. Maybe that’s not aggressive enough, but I don’t understand why the rules for leading a side suit apply when you have Axx in the trump suit.

  11. Anonymous

    Same here, leading from a doubleton is last resort

  12. Anonymous

    I did better than I thought I would.

  13. Anonymous

    When the bidding goes 1S – 4S all pass in the modern game (similar to the Robot’s bidding in BBO) it is usually pre-emptive. It relies on ruffs to take tricks. Partner is unlikely to have more than one trump. Hence to reduce the number of ruffs in dummy, play Ace and another trump.

    1. Morton Isaacs

      Agree.My reasoning exactly.

  14. BARBARA NICHOLLS

    Very good lesson more of it please. 9 out of 10 shows that I am getting there

  15. Annette

    I loved the quiz plus the explanations

  16. Anonymous

    Please send more! Thank you!

  17. Anonymous

    #6. Lead.AS, but if E shows out, finesse the J, surely

  18. Anonymous

    Just a beginner, gives you time to think! Enjoyable even if I only got 4 right!

  19. Anonymous

    Excellent. Keep them coming

  20. Anonymous

    Very good review for me. Thanks

  21. Anonymous

    Good practice and doubly so with the explanations!! More please. Thanks

  22. Anonymous

    Ditto the response at 9:32pm

  23. sab

    Interesting quiz, but I just found this. Thanks.

  24. SalNanda

    Excellent quiz. And explained so well. Thanks for the lesson.

  25. Alan Ananda

    Excellent program my. first attempt and I am pleased

  26. Anonymous

    Good exercise. tks, explanations v helpful

  27. Lim Hui Choo

    First time I read this Bbo newsletter, forwarded by a friend. Don’t know how to subscribe with Bbo, although I joined bbo. Couldn’t find subscription in Help menu or anywhere else. The quizzes n the answers are very enriching. Please continue n post more advanced n interesting ones. Thank you

  28. Anonymous

    Great to have quiz at this level. The usual quizzes seem aimed at very good players. Hope you’ll do more at this level.

  29. Anonymous

    Helpful and enjoyable. Thank you

  30. Donna Hunter

    I enjoyed this very helpful challenge and learned a lot from the thorough explanations. Hope to see more of these at this level. Thank you.

  31. Hapevaft

    Thanks for the explanations, I got more right than I thought, but the explanations clarified some of my guesses?.

  32. Bill

    The reason you play for the drop with 10 cards isn’t that a 2-1 break is more likely than a 3-0 break. It’s that when you lead from hand and LHO follows low there are only 3 out of a possible 6 layouts where finessing works vs. 5 out of 6 where playing for the drop works. Also, you should lead the J to the ace in case a weak LHO covers the jack holding Qxx

  33. Patricia n/a Thibadeoux

    1st time playing. enjoyed the lesson and need more please.

  34. gsascot

    First attempt for me – the exercise made me stop and think and it told me something I know/knew but often ignore – I’m a ‘lazy’ defender and sometimes regard defending as something to pass the time till we are next declaring.

  35. puff ther magic dragon

    thanks. Getting some right is a confidence booster

  36. Anonymous

    I do like this exercise.

  37. Anonymous

    Love the quizzes and the explanations. Thanks!

  38. Anonymous

    Great learning opportunities.

  39. Kilmactran

    Really enjoyed this questions and answers
    The explanations were very helpful

  40. Novice

    Really great learning tool. Thanks

  41. The correct answer on problem 6 is not one of the choices. You plan to play the AK, but you should lead the J, just in case opponent has Qxx and thoughtlessly covers

  42. Sallydk

    Thank you. Nice to have defensive situations and great explanations. 😊

  43. Anonymous

    do we have ist of this quiz?

  44. Anonymous

    good problems for Intermediate players.

  45. Anonymous

    Muy agradecida, muy didactico

  46. Jules Wilkins

    A number of responses gave various reasons for leading trumps in Question 7, all of which have validity in other situations but not this hand. The opener has 5 spades and the preempt response also shows 5. With this hand the best you can do is draw two rounds of trumps given that the only entry to your hand is the A and it is only an entry if the opponents lead trumps. Very rarely the opponents will have a cross ruff but even then you will be able to overruff and play another spade. It is the fact that you have the A of trumps that makes the lead of the doubleton alluring. It comes with no guarantees, but even if it finesses partner’s K it is one that the declarer could take himself. Once declarer is in he is usually going to try to draw trumps himself. If you judge that partner cannot possibly give you a ruff, then play small on the first round then A and small on the next.

  47. gordon

    thanks, Its great to get tested and have explanations as to what went wrong

  48. Caroline Tower

    very informative good review