paulg, on 2010-November-25, 05:17, said:
As often happens in online league matches, you have been throw together with your partner at the last minute. At least she is a fellow internationalist but your only agreements are 2/1, udca and normal 'expert' methods. So leads would be standard.
You are West. Perhaps not everyone would double a strong one notrump but it is now your lead. Which club do you lead?
Whichever you lead, partner plays the two of clubs (udca) and declarer plays the five. Which club do you continue with?
Is there an order of playing the clubs that suggests that they are solid and shows your spade entry?
Showing the solidity of your sequence requires you to play the lowest card of your sequence on the second round.
So the king followed by the ten would show that you have a sequence KQJT but not the 9.
Of course there is no way, by which you can show your entry at the same time. In fact you almost never can convey two different types of information at the same time. But if the second round is ducked the queen on the third round indicates an entry in the higher ranking suit and the jack in the lower ranking suit. Unluckily there are 3 suits where your entry could be. So there is still guess work. If you had KQJT9 you could unambiguously signal for all remaining suits.
If there is agreement that you would never double a strong notrump without a good suit to lead from, then you could lead the queen on the second round and an expert might deduce that this lead can not be from KQx (where one should not overtake with Axx) and therefor must be an attempt to show an entry in the higher ranking suit. In this case you have non standard agreement that the second card shows the entry and only the third round shows the solidity. K, T, Q shows diamond, K, J, T shows hearts, K, Q, T shows spade.
However, I would do this only if I were on firm ground. I would not do this with a new partner.
Rainer Herrmann
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