Thursday 4 May 2023

HighSchoolOfGlasgow vs Lithgae Players

Last night my team of ex-school pupils suffered another loss in Division 1 of the SBU Bronze League.

This was surely the unluckiest board:

Defending 4♥ West made the normal looking lead of the Queen of Clubs. This caught his partner's ten, and declarer was then able to pick up the Clubs and make the contract. On another lead there are at least five losers.

Conceding 4♥= was a doubly bad result as East-West have an easy Spade game. I've encouraged East to bid more next time and weigh in with 3♠.

On the other table our North-South pair did well not to push too hard and wisely sold out to 3♠, which made with two overtricks.

Overall we lost the match 24-53 IMPs which translates to about 4-16 I'd guess.