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The
losers - Trumping in Contract
Contract: 4
Lead: Queen of Diamonds
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K 10 9 6 |
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8 |
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K 7 5 2 |
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10 7 6 2 |
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8 2 |
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4 |
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Q 9 4 3 2 |
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K 10 7 5 |
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Q J 10 |
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A 9 6 3 |
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K J 5 |
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Q 8 4 2 |
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A Q J 7 5 3 |
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A J 6 |
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8 4 |
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A 9 |
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The
bidding:
Check that North-South bid
the right contract of 4
(advice 9.1).
West must lead the Queen of Diamonds (advice
9.2). The declarer play King from dummy which is taken
by the Ace of East who re-leads to the 10 and Jack of West which is trumped
by the declarer…
In theory this contract should be
won without difficulty so long as your pupils have trumped the losing
Hearts in hand with the two remaining trumps in dummy after having played
them twice.
The interest of this deal
is to teach them to divide losers into two categories:
inevitable losers, i.e. those
which you cannot win (advice
9.3)
transformable losers, i.e. those
which must to transformed into winners.
The deal above allows you
to illustrate this theory by finding the losers in South's hand and putting
them into the two categories indicated:
inevitable losers: the two
Diamonds already led; the9 of Clubs (advice
9.4);
transformable losers: the Jack and 6 of Hearts that can be trumped by
dummy's trumps (advice
9.5).
Today we will settle for the
following principle:
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Trumping in is
one of the most certain ways of transforming losing tricks into
winners.
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