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Does the play of this hand represent an example of Morton's Fork? The ♠ play at trick 2 looks like it, since it gives West the option of conceding the 12th trick immediately or subsequently. However, every example I have found in the literature involves discarding the threat card (♠K in this instance) while here it is retained in order to endplay West.
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Morton's Fork?
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Posted 2015-October-30, 05:54
uva72uva72, on 2015-October-29, 11:39, said:
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Does the play of this hand represent an example of Morton's Fork? The ♠ play at trick 2 looks like it, since it gives West the option of conceding the 12th trick immediately or subsequently. However, every example I have found in the literature involves discarding the threat card (♠K in this instance) while here it is retained in order to endplay West.
Does the play of this hand represent an example of Morton's Fork? The ♠ play at trick 2 looks like it, since it gives West the option of conceding the 12th trick immediately or subsequently. However, every example I have found in the literature involves discarding the threat card (♠K in this instance) while here it is retained in order to endplay West.
Yes. This is not the classic variant, which involves later discarding the spade K, but it is a variant, and rather a nice one, where west gets strip squeezed if he doesnt take his ace and concedes the contract if he does not.
Well played.
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