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| | From:  IRDOZ (Original Message) | Sent: 4/9/2003 7:13 AM |
Probably more imps are given away by automatically covering an honor with an honor without pausing to think. Here is a hand from this mornings tournament. Do you cover the Jh or not? Why? Making the right decision made a 13 imp difference. The contract is 5d. Your partner has bid both spades and clubs. They start by cashing the K and then A of clubs - all following. They switch to the 9 of hearts, declarer playing the 10 from dummy. Dummy now holds Q104 J10852 Q76 - You now hold 32 Q743 J102 105 Do you cover with the Q of hearts? Why or why not? |
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Since partner doesn't hold the J or 10, covering cannot promote a trick in his hand. Another way to look at it: if the 9 is singleton, then declarer holds AK6 and covering the 10 will set up a fourth trick for him with the J and 8, while ducking holds him to 3 tricks (A, K, 10). If the 9 is doubleton from 96, then covering is a disaster since declarer holds stiff AK. |
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Just looked again and realized contract is 5D, not NT. Now covering has even less to gain, since the chances of establishing an 8 in partner's hand at 5D are remote no matter what anyone holds. |
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does help to see the hands very easy to analize  |
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Well in that case it should be easy for you to find the error in my analysis. |
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didnt look ,not interested ,could care less !  |
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Nice try Ross, too bad we have the usual morph started by reply number 4. But what can you expect. |
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Let's hope someone else will try the problem and get it right. So far we have one answer with an error in it and one refusal to answer the problem as it is "too easy" so the field is still wide open. |
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| | | From: gipp | Sent: 4/11/2003 5:38 AM |
I will not cover as theres no way to get my Q and if I play it they get extra trick |
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Actually I now think Gipp is right and if I cover they get only 1 extra trick. I was thinking that covering could give them 2 extra tricks if there were no dummy entries outside of hearts, but now I see DQ is close to certain to be an entry so this isn't important. |
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| | | From: IRDOZ | Sent: 4/11/2003 5:58 AM |
Right Gipp and destiny. The 9h must be from 2 or 1 - there is only 1 entry to dummy - there's no possible way covering with the Qh can be a winning action. Yet, surprisingly, many players did the reflex 'cover' action. As our regular correspondent in post 4 says - 'very easy when you see the hands'. These cards are exactly what this correspondent saw. It must have been too easy - because this correspondent covered with the Queen. |
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