A Blind Spot
Playing in a club qualifier for the Grand National Pairs
(doesn't that sound so much better than "North American
Open Pairs?"), this hand arose:
|
98xx
K4
AK10xx
Kx | |
|  | |
|
KJ
AQJ32
xx
Q10xx | |
Declarer | Dummy |
1 | 2 |
2 | 3 |
4 | Pass |
2
was game forcing unless 3
is rebid.
How would you have bid the two hands?
T1:
3-x-A-J
T2:
x-K-2-x
T3:
x-x-K-A
T4:
x-Q-x-x
T5:
x-
x-
4-x
Over to you.
Answer
Jeff Goldsmith,
jeff@tintin.jpl.nasa.gov,
Aug. 15, 1996