My Small Bliss

Mr. Lin asked us a deal last Saturday. This deal happened in pk of Xinrui Bridge. Mr. Lin said the contract went down in a second. What's more, Fu, our coach, also let the contract down quickly. Board 2 Dealer: East Vul: N-S East    South    West    North  1♢        2♣       Pass       2♢ Pass     2NT      Pass      3NT  AP Lead: ♢4 How to play now? For many professional players, strip squeeze must emerged in their brain at the first glance. ♠K, ♡A and ♢A had been supposed in East. Cashing all the ♣ and throw in East at last. So they would play ♢Q in the first trick. For other players, they would played ♢Q by the night of nature, hoping ♢A was in West. However, in the first situation, strip squeeze didn't work here. You just had 1♠, 1♢, 5♣, totally 7 tricks. If you had 6 cards ♣, strip squeeze would exist. In last 5 cards, East ...

This deal happened in the last segment of Asian Game Pairs Finals. Who played this deal would never be mentioned in my blog. I was quite afraid of being accused of insulting players. Board 15 Dealer: South Vul: N-S South    West    North    East  2♡*        Pass     Pass        X  Pass       2♠       Pass      3NT   AP 2♡: Weak 6 cards ♡ Lead: ♣4 North followed ♣Q and you won with the ♣A. And now, how to play? Now you had 3♣, 1♡, so you need 4♠ and 1♢. You must assume that South hold ♢A and North hold ♠K. Otherwise it would down quickly. The leading was quite strange. If he was 1-6-3-3, he would lead ♢. If he was 2-6-2-3, ♡ was the normal leading. I felt South hold 4 cards ♣, because he led quickly. However, it was hard to say. Anyway, you need 2 entries to finesse ♠K. One was ♢K, appreciating the leading, ♣9 beca...

This deal happened in the last segment of Asian Games Finals, China vs Hong Kong, China. Indeed, the Game has gone into the rubbish time. There's no any chance for Hong Kong, China to win the game. Anyway, this still couldn't be the excuse to give up. Otherwise, they would smack themselves in the face. After all, Hong Kong, China always work miracles. They entered the knock out by two emphatic victories in the last two rounds. The forth was beaten by China so that they just over the fifth 0.2 VP. In the semi-final, they won the match just in one board gap. Facebook was full of the news of miracles created by Hong Kong, China.  However this deal showed how they kicked in the ass. Board 12 Dealer: West Vul: N-S West      North    East           South Q. Shen  B. Ho   F. Wang      G. Ho Pass        2♣*      Pass        ...

This deal happened in the first segment of Asian Games Finals, China vs Hong Kong, China. I'm a big fan of Wang wenfei, to be exact, I hope my team could win them one day. 5 battles, 4 lose, 1 tie. So this time I kibitzed by South only, imagining if I was her opponent, what would I do. Board 2 Dealer: East Vul: N-S South ♠ JT8 ♡ AKQ862 ♢ 3 ♣ 953 1. East open 1NT(15-17, bal) 2. East open 1♣(Precision) Will you overcall? Wang used Precision System. Whatever Natural system or Precision, I thought I would not bid at the first round, especially Natural system. I just hold 10 points and vul is harmful. It is quite hard for me to go game or rob a part contract. The optimal situation is opponent's reaching 3NT and I could win 6 tricks directly. If I have one more A, I would bid for sure. If opponent use Precision System, you may have chance to bid on the second round. Or they might reach 3NT and the I could laugh in beard. The full deal Board 2 Dealer: East Vu...

This deal happened in the third segment of the Asian Games Semi-finals, Hongkong, China vs Chinese Taipei. Board 13 Dealer: North Vul: Both West open and no one overcall. Contract: 3NT Declarer: East Lead: ♢T Chinese Taipei bid a little bit high. This contract seems to be one down at least on a superficial look. Is there any hope for the contract? Definitely yes! If ♢ was blocked and knock out a right black A, just 4 losers, the contract was home. There is no point in ducking on the first trick. In fact, the declarer from Chinese Taipei did this! She played ♠KQ, South thought for a while and followed ♠5 and ♠2. I don't know whether South thought or not on table, in bbo, I felt that he thought. That means East knocked out the right A. However, the declarer didn't continue to knock out ♠A on the next trick. She shifted to ♣ which led the defenders to unblock ♢. In my opinion, if North hold ♠A, there is no need for him to duck, he would win and unblock ♢ directly, then...

This deal happened in the first segment of Asia Games Semi-Finals, Hongkong, China vs Chinese Taipei. Board 11 Dealer: South Vul: None                                                                                 East         West F. Wong   C. Koo  1♠           1NT  2♡           2NT  3♡            4♠  AP Lead: ♣K No one could know 4♡ or 4♠, which one is better before playing. Let's see some tricks in the open room first. Trick    North     East     South     West   1         ♣K          ♣5        ...

This deal happened in the first segment of the 17th World Youth Teams Championships Final, China vs Poland. Board 11 Dealer: South Vul: None Contract: 6♣ Declarer: South Lead: ♣2 Trick    North    East    South    West    1         ♣3        ♣6       ♣T          ♣2    2         ♣7        ♡4       ♣K          ♣5    3         ♣J         ♢4       ♣A         ♣9    4         ♠T         ♠J       ♠2         ♠8    5         ♢K         ♢6      ♢T    ...