{"id":23910,"date":"2026-07-21T07:51:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/publication\/6nt-on-squeeze\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T07:51:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:51:33","slug":"6nt-on-squeeze","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/publication\/6nt-on-squeeze\/","title":{"rendered":"6NT on squeeze"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bidding is straight forward -SEF and SAYC convention.<\/p>\n

South bids 6NT on north’s 4NT bid.<\/p>\n

6\u2666<\/span> <\/span>by south is cold makes 6 if \u2663<\/span> <\/span>A is cashed, otherwise 7. 6\u2666<\/span> <\/span>is a decent contract.<\/p>\n

However in Matchpoints 6NT gives a better score on favourable layout and good play.<\/p>\n

1 \u2665<\/span> <\/span>7 is lead by east, since north is showing \u2663<\/span> <\/span>s. Play goes \u2665<\/span> <\/span>7 \u2665<\/span> <\/span>2 \u2665<\/span> <\/span>6 \u2665<\/span> <\/span>K<\/p>\n

2 \u2666<\/span> <\/span>K \u2666<\/span> <\/span>5 \u2666<\/span> <\/span>2 \u2666<\/span> <\/span>8<\/p>\n

3 \u2666<\/span> <\/span>Q \u2666<\/span> <\/span>10\u2666<\/span> <\/span>2\u2666<\/span> <\/span>6<\/p>\n

4 \u2666<\/span> <\/span>3 \u2663<\/span> <\/span>3 \u2666<\/span> <\/span>A \u2660<\/span> 6<\/span><\/p>\n

5 <\/span>\u2666<\/span> <\/span>J \u2663<\/span> <\/span>7\u2663<\/span> <\/span>2\u2663<\/span> <\/span>5<\/p>\n

6 \u2666<\/span> <\/span>9 \u2660<\/span> <\/span>7 \u2663<\/span> <\/span>4\u2663<\/span> <\/span>6<\/p>\n

7 \u2666<\/span> <\/span>7 \u2660<\/span> <\/span>8 \u2663<\/span> <\/span>8 \u2665<\/span> <\/span>4<\/p>\n

8 \u2660<\/span> <\/span>K \u2660<\/span> <\/span>10 \u2660<\/span> <\/span>4 \u2660<\/span> <\/span>3<\/p>\n

9 \u2660<\/span> 9 <\/span>J \u2660<\/span> <\/span>A \u2660<\/span> <\/span>2<\/p>\n

10 \u2660<\/span> <\/span>Q \u2663<\/span> <\/span>9 \u2665<\/span> <\/span>8 \u2665<\/span> <\/span>9<\/p>\n

11 \u2660<\/span> <\/span>5 \u2663<\/span> <\/span>10 \u2663<\/span> <\/span>J \u2665<\/span> <\/span>10<\/p>\n

12 <\/span>\u2665<\/span> <\/span>3 \u2665<\/span> <\/span>5 \u2665<\/span> <\/span>A \u2665<\/span> <\/span>Q<\/p>\n

13 \u2665<\/span> <\/span>J \u2663<\/span> <\/span>A \u2663<\/span> <\/span>K \u2663<\/span> <\/span>Q<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In the 11th trick, \u2660<\/span> <\/span>5 card squeezes west in \u2665<\/span> <\/span>and \u2663<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2665<\/span> <\/span>J acts as the menace\/thread card<\/p>\n

If west discards \u2663<\/span> <\/span>A instead of \u2665<\/span> <\/span>10 then north’s \u2663<\/span> <\/span>K is high<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bidding is straight forward -SEF and SAYC convention. South bids 6NT on north’s 4NT bid. 6\u2666 by south is cold makes 6 if \u2663 A…<\/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":[218],"class_list":["post-23910","publication","type-publication","status-publish","hentry","level-intermediate"],"acf":[],"publication_lang":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/23910","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=23910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23910"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=23910"},{"taxonomy":"level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/level?post=23910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}