Lesson 18
  Advice of the Day Lesson of the Day Training Test
Check the Learning
  Illustration Deal Glossary Hand-out

Correction of exercises

** Correction of deal No. 1
  a)

The correct contract is 6 because there is an eight card fit and two distribution points in the two hands.

  b) The losers: * in Spades: 0 except if there are four Spades in the same hand
      * in Hearts: 1  
      * in Diamonds: 0  
      * in Clubs: 1  
  c) The hopes of a win are:
      * either in the favourable position of the Queen of Hearts
      * or in the favourable position of the King of Clubs
    Just one of these two conditions is sufficient
  d) You start by drawing Trumps and finishing in dummy
  e) You continue with the Jack of Clubs allowed to run…
** Correction of deal No. 2
  There should be a great fight between the two camps!
  North opens and, on the basis of South's little paper, bids 1 (there are only 25 DH); East asks for the little paper and finding 24 DH thanks to the nine card fit in Hearts bids 1; as North has a bit of leeway, he bids on his turn 2, which pushes the opposition to 2; North will have the last word with 3 on which the opponents can only pass …whew!

Comprehension questions

a) What score is best between 3 + 1 or 3 just made?
b) You have 28 H points in the two hands without an eight fit in major: what contract do you play? Why?
c) What does a repeated finesse consist of?