 J 2
 K 8 6
 A K 7 4 3 2
 3 2 |
| A K Q 5
Q 9 7
10 9
9 7 6 4 |
| West | North | East | South |
| Pass | Pass | ||
| Pass | 1 |
Pass | 1 |
| Pass | 2 |
Pass | 2NT |
| Pass | Pass | Pass |
8
after first trick. You just have 4, 1, 27 tricks. The structure of is real ugly. Even if doubleton QJ exists, there is still a 8 outside. Setting is impossible because the loser will up to 6 first.
So how to play now?
I don’t why the stratagem of empty city by Zhu Geliang suddenly emerged in my brain that time. So I won with the J and played a small quickly from the table. She would not continue to attack in a high rate. There’s only one chance for me that West won the second trick and shifted with A. And then I would get 2and brought contract home. Everything happened as expected.
J and played a small quickly from the table. She would not continue to attack in a high rate. There’s only one chance for me that West won the second trick and shifted with A. And then I would get 2and brought contract home. Everything happened as expected.The full deal:
| J 2
K 8 6
A K 7 4 3 2
3 2 |
||
| 10 8 6 3
A 5 3
Q 8 6
K Q 10 |
9 7 4
J 10 4 2
J 5
A J 8 5 |
|
| A K Q 5
Q 9 7
10 9
9 7 6 4 |
AKQ, so it was for me to hold A. And West had KQ and it quite strange that the declarer didn’t set up .
- Xinyi Li member of the “China Girls” team that won the gold medal recently at the 17 World Bridge Youth Championship.
