Two from a Club Game

  1. matchpoints, you hold

     S:J10764 H:J9 D:1042 C:AK6

    LHORHO
    1S:1NT (forcing)
    2H:2NT
    3NTPass
    What do you lead?

  2. S: KQ
    H: J7x
    D: AKx
    C: AKJ7x
    S: Axx
    H: AK9x
    D: QJxx
    C: 9x

    After a fairly hopeless auction to 6NT, LHO leads a nondescript spade. Plan the play

    a) at matchpoints
    b) at IMPs.

Answers
Jeff Goldsmith, jeff@tintin.jpl.nasa.gov, Jan. 31, 1996