I Love This Game by Auken Sabine

Author:Auken, Sabine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Master Point Press
Published: 2011-09-28T00:00:00+00:00

If she discards a club, my clubs are good and if she discards her low diamond, she will be put in with the king of diamonds to lead into my club tenace. That was a bad night. Do you also dream about bridge?

Has all this been too depressing? Too many mistakes, too many blunders? I believe it is a good philosophy in life to try to finish on a positive note. Please take a seat and watch a woman who knows a kill point when she sees one.

Andrea Reim (née Rauscheid) and Pony Nehmert have long been one of the mainstays of the German women’s team and have contributed extensively to its many successes. During the 2000 Bridge Olympiad in Maastricht, they played some of their best bridge ever, as witnessed by this deal, which occurred in our round-robin match against South Africa, never an easy opponent.

The five diamond contract reached by Pony and Andrea looked eminently reasonable and eleven tricks seemed to be a cinch after the club opening lead. Remember the advice I gave you earlier in this chapter (or did I give it to myself?). When things look easy, ask yourself, “What can go wrong?” Pony did just that, coming up with a very satisfactory answer. If either heart honor were onside or if spades broke no worse than 4-2, there would be no problems at all. So just in case worse came to worst Pony spotted a little extra chance.

After drawing only two rounds of trumps, she ruffed her club loser in dummy and, being quite sure about the location of most missing high cards from the bidding, continued with the king of spades. Spades did indeed break very unfavorably for declarer, but this is where Pony’s foresight paid off. When North won her singleton ace, she was actually endplayed. She could either hand Pony a heart trick on a silver platter by playing into the ♥AQ10 or she could give her a ruff and sluff by continuing with a club. Modlin chose the latter and Pony duly chalked up eleven tricks. If Pony had immediately drawn all the opponents’ outstanding trumps, there would have been no endplay and yet another kill point missed. Thanks Pony, for helping me finishing this chapter on a positive note!

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