Test Your Bridge Skills #43

This quiz was written by Oren Lidor.

Test Your Bridge Skills #43

Test Your Bridge Skills #43


Hand 1

What will you bid as South?


Hand 2

What will you bid as South?


Hand 3

Against 2NT your partner led the 6. You won with the A. How will you continue?


Hand 4

You play 6♠ and West led the J. You won with the K. What will you play now?

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21 comments on “Test Your Bridge Skills #43”
    1. hi.main Problem: there are never 3 bids required but only 2, part 3 and 4 is about plaing/defending.

  1. Why would the biid on bd-1 imply strong clubs and weak hearts? Even if we swap an ace and x between clubs and hearts, won't we bid the same way? Can someone please clarify? Thanks.

    1. Too easy, all 4 problems took me like 5min and the answers were all obvious.

      Also, board 3 I'm getting a new partner that knows to lead their worse major vs NT contracts without going through staman.

  2. On hand 2,4D is more descriptive than 3H;meant to be "all my points are very good vs your singleton".Thus,North can evaluate his hand better.

  3. On hand 2,4D is more descriptive than 3H,meant to be "all my points are valuable vs. your singleton."Thus,North can evaluate his hand better

    1. Normally, there's not room to stop below game after a splinter. In this case, there is. I like to play 3D is game-invite or better and 4D is GF AND a void

  4. Boards 1 and 2: splinters are already forcing to game. It really should not be possible to stop in 3S. My choice in board 1 is 3NT (unless its a conventional bid) - if partner has what he promised, it should be a decent contract. IMHO, North's hand is too weak for a splinter.

  5. Good problems as always. This time my score was abysmal, because I missed the boat on the first two problems, thinking that3D rebid showed 56 in the minors. It's nice to have a bid alerted, but it would be even nicer to get an explanation :-). No matter, I guess I should have diagnosed the situation as 2D is already a reverse.

    1. I agree with you comment. I also interpreted the diamond bit as a reverse with clubs and diamonds. It would be nice to have an explanation of the bidding system

  6. On 3, is it not possible declarer has like 98532 QJ8 A2 AKQ. By playing the KS we let the contract through whereas we can always give him a suit pref signal on the diamond and be confident that he will make the correct switch if the layout is like the example in the actual hand.

  7. One needs to know if partner shows singletons or not. Most people I play with don't play that way.

  8. The explanation for 3D in the first 2 examples is not how I, and most players I know in the UK, would understand it. It would be a D suit and forcing to game.

    1. Not true! As a 2d rebid is forcing (as it's a reverse) the3d bid is artificial and a splinter

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