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Carding question from the Street-Nickell match

#1 User is offline   antonylee 

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Posted 2016-July-28, 21:53

2016 Spingold Street v. Nickell, board 29

NS Meckwell, EW Bessis/Volcker

South (Meckstroth) led the ♣A and North (Rodwell) followed with the jack.

Any thoughts as to what this card indicates? On Vugraph Al Hollander suggested (with some doubt) that it was attitude.
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Posted 2016-July-29, 00:23

Usually playing an honor shows the top of a sequence, so it denies holding the Queen.

But East was unlikely to bid 3NT without the Q, so he doesn't really need this information. I suspect it was suit preference for Spades.

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Posted 2016-July-29, 02:07

I initially thought the same, but don't Meckwell play *upside-down* suit preference?
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Posted 2016-July-29, 07:18

I think it might have been an alarm clock signal, please do something unusual. I don't think a spade switch is that unusual though. Usually when you want to know what a card shows, you look at the next trick to see how it might have been taken.
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Posted 2016-July-29, 14:09

Anyone know if A or K asks for unblock for Meckwell. could simply be unblocking.
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Posted 2016-July-31, 04:01

View Poststeve2005, on 2016-July-29, 14:09, said:

Anyone know if A or K asks for unblock for Meckwell. could simply be unblocking.

They play the king lead as their unblock/count lead against NT.
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Posted 2016-August-01, 04:12

He is simply unblocking to lead through Qxx(x) if he gets in.
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