{"id":23818,"date":"2026-07-19T16:05:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T15:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/?post_type=publication&p=23818"},"modified":"2026-07-19T16:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T15:07:09","slug":"7nt","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/publication\/7nt\/","title":{"rendered":"7NT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Display not available.<\/p><\/div>\n

The bidding is SEF \/SAYC convention, and RKC is 1430<\/p>\n

The grand slam is bid with 31HCP<\/p>\n

Play goes as follows.<\/p>\n

Lead is \u2666<\/span>6<\/p>\n

Play goes as follows<\/p>\n

1)\u2666<\/span> 6 \u2666<\/span> 3 \u2666<\/span> J \u2666<\/span> A<\/p>\n

2)\u2660<\/span> A \u2660<\/span> J \u2660<\/span> 5 \u2660<\/span> 4<\/p>\n

3)\u2665<\/span> 2 \u2665<\/span> 9 \u2665<\/span> A \u2665<\/span> 8<\/p>\n

4)\u2663<\/span> 8 \u2663<\/span> 2 \u2663<\/span> A \u2663<\/span> 6<\/p>\n

5)\u2660<\/span> 2 \u2666<\/span> 5 \u2660<\/span> K \u2660<\/span> 7<\/p>\n

6)\u2660<\/span> 10 \u2660<\/span> 8 \u2660<\/span> Q \u2663<\/span> 4<\/p>\n

7)\u2660<\/span> 9 \u2666<\/span> 8 \u2663<\/span> 9 \u2666<\/span> 4<\/p>\n

8)\u2660<\/span> 6 \u2666<\/span> 10 \u2665<\/span> 4 \u2666<\/span> 7<\/p>\n

At this point south’s remaining cards are \u2660<\/span> 3 \u2665<\/span> 5 \u2665<\/span> 3 \u2666<\/span> K \u2666<\/span> 2<\/p>\n

West’s hand is \u2665<\/span> Q \u2665<\/span> 10 \u2666<\/span> Q \u2663<\/span> Q \u2663<\/span> J<\/p>\n

Dummy (North’ hand) is \u2665<\/span> K\u2665<\/span> J\u2665<\/span> 6 \u2666<\/span> 9 \u2663<\/span> K<\/p>\n

East’s hand is \u2665<\/span> 7 \u2663<\/span> 10 \u2663<\/span> 7\u2663<\/span> 5 \u2663<\/span><\/p>\n

South’s hand is high-\u2666<\/span> Q is falling on \u2666<\/span> K \u2666<\/span> 3 \u2660<\/span> 3 \u2665<\/span> 5 (\u2665<\/span> K) \u2663<\/span> K<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Remarks: Since it is Matchpoint game, 7NT is bid instead of 7\u2660<\/span> after checking the keycards.<\/p>\n

The lead is 4th best , (but in slams , lead could be neutral and may not be 4th best).<\/p>\n

If \u2660<\/span> break at least 3-1, or 2-2, there are 12 tricks -6\u2660<\/span> 2\u2665<\/span> 2\u2666<\/span> 2\u2663<\/span><\/p>\n

13th trick can come from \u2665<\/span> by finessing Q , dropping \u2665<\/span> Q or by squeeze.<\/p>\n

Since the contract is 7NT, there is no question of rectifying the count.<\/p>\n

By playing \u2660<\/span>, discards are noted, West with \u2666<\/span> Q as well as \u2665<\/span> Q will make a discard useful to south.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The bidding is SEF \/SAYC convention, and RKC is 1430 The grand slam is bid with 31HCP Play goes as follows. Lead is \u26666 Play…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4686,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[]},"categories":[],"tags":[],"language":[],"level":[216],"class_list":["post-23818","publication","type-publication","status-publish","hentry","level-beginner"],"acf":[],"publication_lang":"gb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/23818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23818"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=23818"},{"taxonomy":"level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/level?post=23818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}