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Answer When a good partner responds 3D, they want you to show support if you have it. (Otherwise they should have responded 3NT.) You should therefore raise to 4D. If you rebid 3NT, you are more or less saying to your partner "I don’t trust you and think you should have bid 3NT instead!" AWARDS: 4D - 10, 3NT - 4. David Bird — Knight Features
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THE main point in the
play concerns the defence by West, so take those cards and see how you
fare. You lead a low club to East’s 10 and South’s ace. Declarer
cashes the ace-king of hearts and leads a low heart. How will you
defend? When the deal was originally played, West discarded a club.
Declarer ruffed with dummy’s two of trumps, returned to hand with a
club ruff and ruffed a fourth round of hearts with the queen. A second
club ruff reduced him to A-K-10 in the trump suit with West still
holding his original J-8-7-6. When declarer exited with a diamond, West
rose with the ace and played a second diamond to East’s king. If East
returned a third diamond, declarer would guarantee the contract by
throwing his last heart. East in fact switched to a trump. Declarer rose
with the ace and exited with the ten of hearts. West had to ruff and
lead into South’s K-10 of trumps and the game was made. To beat 4S
West must ruff the third round of hearts. Declarer overruffs with the
queen and returns to his hand with a club ruff to lead another heart.
West ruffs again (reducing his trumps to just J-8). He then plays ace
and another diamond to the king. East plays a third diamond to promote
West’s jack of trumps and that is one down.
You open a 12-14 1NT and
partner responds 3D. What would you rebid?