| Topics
for Al’s Teaching lessons "Play and defense" |
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| Schedule: |
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| 1. Lessons every TUE 8:00 am CET | 2. No Tournaments at the moment | ||||
| To prepare, you may
have a look to my |
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| notes and reviews from the 2007 lessons | notes from the 2005-2006 teaching tourneys | ||||
| notes from the 2004/2005 teaching sessions | reviews from the 2004-2005 teaching sessions | ||||
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| 1. Play at No-trumps | 2. Defence against No-trumps | ||||
Planning the play |
Planning the defence | ||||
| Count your winner | Count your winner | ||||
| Count opponents winner | Count declarers winner | ||||
| Count opponents HCP | Count partners / declarers HCP | ||||
| Count opponents distribution | Count partners /declarers distribution | ||||
| Holding off stoppers (e.g.. Bath-Coup) | Defensive holdoff | ||||
| Ducking to preserve entries (i.e. Blanko Coup) | Ducking in defence (Blanko Coup in defence) | ||||
| Other entry plays | Other entry plays (Merrimac- Deschapelles-Coup .. ) | ||||
| Avoidance plays | Defence against avoidance plays | ||||
| Suit-combinations | To cover or not to cover?? | ||||
| Safety plays | |||||
| Playing with the odds | |||||
| Endplays | Defending against endplays | ||||
| Squeeze play | Defence against Squeeze | ||||
| Defensive signals | |||||
| 3. Play at Suit Contracts | 4. Defence against Suit Contracts | ||||
| Planning the play | Planning the defence | ||||
| Count your loser (or dummy's) | Count declarers winner / loser | ||||
| Count opponents HCP | Count partners / declarers HCP | ||||
| Count opponents distribution | Count partners /declarers distribution | ||||
| Decide to play on plan I, II, III or IV | Decide which plan declarer will follow? | ||||
| Count your winner (and partners) | |||||
| Opening lead (especially trump lead) | |||||
| Defensive signals | |||||
| Apply all techniques from NT | Apply all techniques from NT | ||||
| Holding off stoppers | Defensive holdoff | ||||
| Ducking to preserve entries | Ducking in defence (Blanko Coup in defence) | ||||
| Other entry plays |
Entry plays on defence (Merrimac-Coup; Deschapelles-Coup) | ||||
| Avoidance plays | Defence against avoidance plays | ||||
| Suit-combinations | |||||
| Safety plays | |||||
| Playing with the odds | |||||
| Endplays | Defending against endplays | ||||
| Squeeze play | Defence against Squeeze | ||||
| Plan I: Using dummys shortness (including Cross-ruff) |
Defence against Plan I | ||||
| Plan II Using dummys lenghth | Defence against Plan II Using dummys lenghth | ||||
| Plan III Winning tricks with losers | Defence against Plan III Winning tricks with losers | ||||
| The art of finessing (or not to finesse) | |||||
| Endplays | |||||
| Plan IV Winning extra trump tricks | Defence against Plan IV Winning extra trump tricks | ||||
| Dummy reversal | |||||
| Ruffing with declarers small trumps | |||||
| Cross-ruff | |||||
| Trump coup | |||||
| Getting additional tricks by defensive ruffs | |||||