Andrew:

Defence Answer - Its your turn?

Andrew teaches his Defence course next weekend (6-7 November) at his Parsons Green Club, you can see full details/book here. This quiz was taken from that course.

Congratuations to the first three correct answers out of our "hat":

Marina Evans,
Andrew McIndoe &
Vassilios Vareldzis.

They each win a copy of Andrew's Defence Booklet.

Here is the answers to Monday's Defence quiz.

South Deals
Both Vul

♠	A K 4
♥	9 5 2
♦	6 4
♣	K Q J 9 2

♠	J 8 7 5
♥	A Q 4
♦	J 8 7 5 2
♣	A

N
W		E
S

♠	10 3 2
♥	K 8 6 3
♦	10 3
♣	8 7 4 3

♠	Q 9 6
♥	J 10 7
♦	A K Q 9
♣	10 6 5

West	North	East	South
			1 N
Pass	3 N	All pass

3 N by South

Lead: ♦ 5

No point in North mentioning clubs, N-S sail into 3 NT.

West leads ♦ 5 to ♦ 10 and declarer wins with (say) ♦ K. At Trick two he leads ♣ 10. West wins ♣ A and can count that, as soon as he regains the lead, declarer has nine tricks in three suits: ♠ AK on view, ♦ AKQ (Trick One told him that East's highest diamond was ♦ 10 marking declarer with ♦ AKQ - and ♦ 9 too) and four clubs. West's only hope is to take four quick heart tricks, so he switches to ♥ A. East signals with ♥ 8 (throw high means aye), so West follows with ♥ Q (top from two remaining to unblock) then ♥ 4. East wins ♥ K and cashes ♥ 6. Down one.

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Defence Answer - Its your turn?