This
deal is from a Cheadle Hulme duplicate earlier this month.
After
North had opened one diamond and South responded one spade,
North sensibly raised to two spades even though it was
possibly a four three fit. Those players who rebid two
diamonds played there and most went one off, the one
successful declarer still didn't score as well as two spades
making. South passed two spades, making a thin game try
at pairs is not advisable, just getting a plus score on the
board should score well.
Playing four three fits is
always interesting, sometimes drawing trumps and playing the
deal as if in notrump is the plan, other times ruffing
losers in dummy works, sometimes a cross ruff or just try to
scramble as many tricks as possible. Players tend to
panic a bit, but it is essentially no different from playing
with more trumps.
Here West led a low club,
declarer won in dummy and tried the queen of spades.
With the useful eight and seven of spades declarer only
needed to find one spade honour onside and trump a club in
dummy to make the contract, with the diamond finesse as
reserve. The queen of spades was covered and won by
South's ace. South cashed two top clubs and trumped a
club in dummy, then cashed the ace of hearts and played
another trump. Eventually the diamond finesse lost but
declarer had eight tricks, for a top score. Only one
defender found the killing trump lead which prevents the
club ruff.
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