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with his ♠6.
Note that declarer did not have to
count the spades. If the ♥K had not
been discarded, declarer just had to try
to run the spades.
Plus 1020 was worth 41.5 matchpoints out of 51.
Doub was the declarer on this deal
(also rotated):
Dlr: South ♠ A K 6 2
Vul: None ♥ K 10
♦ 10 6 5
♣Q932
♠J97
♠ Q 10 8
♥QJ842
♥93
♦8
♦A932
♣AK85
♣ J 10 7 6
♠543
♥A765
♦KQJ74
♣4
West

North
East
Merblum

1♥
Dbl
All Pass

1♠ (1)

South
Doub
Pass
3♦

(1) The equivalent of a 1NT response.
Von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs - 426 pairs
1. Douglas Doub, West Hartford CT;
Franklin Merblum, Bloomfield CT
1673.62
2. Zia Mahmood, New York NY;
Giorgio Duboin, Torino, Italy
1643.74
3. Jack Zhao, Boca Raton FL;
Winthrop Allegaert, New York NY
1620.98
4. Alan Sontag, Gaithersburg MD;
Alan Osofsky, Palm Beach FL
1617.47
5. Simon Cope - Peter Crouch,
Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
1595.14
6. Joel Wooldridge, Astoria NY;
Kent Mignocchi, Bronx NY
1586.32
7. Michael Becker - Aubrey Strul,
Boca Raton FL
1577.37
8. Richard Oshlag, Memphis TN;
Thomas Peters, Grapeland TX
1571.84
9. George Jacobs, Hinsdale IL;
Claude Vogel, Chicago IL
1560.17
10. Per-Ola Cullin - Peter Bertheau, Sweden 1558.13
11. Michel Bessis - Philippe Cronier,
Paris, France
1552.51
12. Hoajun Shi - Ze Jun Zhuang,
People's Republic of China
1551.62
13. Sartaj Hans, Sydney Australia;
Justin Lall, Plano TX
1544.36
14. Geoff Hampson, Las Vegas NV;
Eric Greco, Wynnewood PA
1538.77

Doug Doub and
Frank Merblum,
winners of the
von Zedtwitz Life
Master Pairs.

West led the ♣A, then shifted to the
♥Q.
Doub won with dummy's ♥K, played
a diamond to his king (noting West's 8),
cashed the ♥A and ruffed a heart with
dummy's ♦10. East discarded a club.
Now declarer played a diamond to
his 7 and continued with the ♦Q. East
won and erred by returning the ♣J.
South discarded his heart loser on this
trick and a moment later, pitched his
spade loser on the established ♣Q to
come home with an overtrick.

15. Robert Levin - Jill Levin, Henderson NV
16. Tezcan Sen - Yalcin Atabey,
Istanbul, Turkey
17. Bobby Wolff, Las Vegas NV;
Dan Morse, Houston TX
18. Brian Platnick, Evanston IL;
Martin Fleisher, New York NY
19. Jeff Schuett, Riverwoods IL;
Kerry Smith, Milwaukee WI
20. Jurek Czyzowicz, Gatineau QC;
Dan Jacob, Vancouver BC
21. Yu Zhang - Shao Hong Wu,
People's Republic of China
22. John Kranyak, Las Vegas NV;
Vincent Demuy, Palm Beach Gardens FL
23. Gregers Bjarnarson, New York NY;
Kaare Gjaldbaek, Bronx NY
24. Michael Roche, Victoria BC;
John Rayner, Mississauga ON
25. Kirubakara Moorthy - Uttam Gupta, India
26. Agustin Madala, Argentina;
Andrew Gromov, Russia
27. Steve Weinstein, Andes NY;
Kevin Fay, Columbia MO
28. Zachary Grossack, Newton MA;
Geoffrey Brod, Avon CT

1530.62
1519.17
1517.93
1517.37
1506.57
1504.73
1493.96
1487.38
1483.54
1464.77
1461.40
1446.77
1439.87
1434.80

Plus 130 was worth 40 matchpoints
out of 51. Plus 110 would have garnered
only 23.
Did you spot declarer's error?
If he was going to finesse his ♦7,
he should have played his ♦4 under
dummy's ♦6. Then, when he won the
trick, he could have ruffed a club in his
hand, crossed to dummy's ♠K, ruffed
another club, returned to dummy in
spades and scored his last trump en
passant by leading dummy's fourth
club.

29. Berk Basaran - Melih Osman,
Instanbul Turkey
30. Li-Chung Chen, Cupertino CA;
Ari Greenberg, Menlo Park CA
31. John Bowman - Bill Bowman, Ottawa ON
32. Douglas Simson, Columbus OH;
Jeff Aker, Briarcliff NY
33. Massimiliano Di Franco -
Andrea Manno, Palermo, Italy
34. Michael Polowan, New York NY;
Adam Wildavsky, Sarasota FL
35. Jan Jansma, Netherlands;
Ron Pachtmann, Israel
36. Polly Siegel, Los Altos CA;
Debbie Rosenberg, Cupertino CA
37. Barry Rigal, New York NY;
Glenn Milgrim, Forest Hills NY
38. Meike Wortel, Netherlands;
Marion Michielsen, Sweden
39. Bryan Maksymetz, Vancouver BC;
Zygmunt Marcinski, Westmount QC
40. Daniel Gerstman, Buffalo NY;
Ron Gerard, White Plains NY
41. Yanhong Wang - Hu Wen,
People's Republic of China
42. Jing Liu - Zizhuo Wang, Minneapolis MN

1426.82
1426.39
1424.88
1422.60
1418.72
1411.48
1410.31
1405.00
1402.57
1399.29
1398.04
1397.50
1394.93
1389.44

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