[cloa513]

WHat is the worst/best result achieved in a single hand in duplicate bridge in against professional bridge players? What is the current record?

[Cyberyeti]

My favourite result was Zia and Chemla allowing my partner and I to play in 2♠ with a combined 15 count and a 10 card fit. You can't do better than all the matchpoints.

[apollo1201]

I once read a top expert pair played 7SX minus a lot (maybe 8 or 9) after a brillant and imaginative bid…that only the player who committed it got right around the table.

Opps were bidding high, and were already at a the small slam in H. The pair had competed in a minor and 7m would be a cheap save against 6H. However, that could push them to 7H making and the only lead to defeat the slam was S where the player was void, while his partner was on lead.

The « brilliancy » of the 6S bid over 6H was to indicate the killing lead against 7H, should opps bid the grand slam, while « en route » to the save in 7m that the player was going to bid anyway.

Opps duly bid 7H, contemplating the SA, but the player’s partner bid over to 7S, thinking of a double fit.

7SX became the final contract, and worse, the player had to play it🤣🤣🤣

I am sure other readers will recall the deal.

Not sure it is a record (teammates of mine both scored 6HX making in one line and 6SX making in the other, in a match I wasn’t playing, but we’re obviously not pros!).

[Cyberyeti]

apollo1201, on 2023-May-04, 06:42, said:

I once read a top expert pair played 7SX minus a lot (maybe 8 or 9) after a brillant and imaginative bid…that only the player who committed it got right around the table.

Opps were bidding high, and were already at a the small slam in H. The pair had competed in a minor and 7m would be a cheap save against 6H. However, that could push them to 7H making and the only lead to defeat the slam was S where the player was void, while his partner was on lead.

The « brilliancy » of the 6S bid over 6H was to indicate the killing lead against 7H, should opps bid the grand slam, while « en route » to the save in 7m that the player was going to bid anyway.

Opps duly bid 7H, contemplating the SA, but the player’s partner bid over to 7S, thinking of a double fit.

7SX became the final contract, and worse, the player had to play it🤣🤣🤣

I am sure other readers will recall the deal.

Not sure it is a record (teammates of mine both scored 6HX making in one line and 6SX making in the other, in a match I wasn’t playing, but we’re obviously not pros!).

There is a famous case in british bridge where somebody found a squeeze to make a vulnerable small slam, and this saved one IMP, team mates went for 5200.

[apollo1201]

Cyberyeti, on 2023-May-04, 06:45, said:

There is a famous case in british bridge where somebody found a squeeze to make a vulnerable small slam, and this saved one IMP, team mates went for 5200.

-9 XX 😱😱

Although -8 XX has more than likely happened several times over an undiscussed multi, 2D - X - XX all pass, with XX pick your M for one, and I want to play 2D XX for the other

[cloa513]

A bit ambiguous what I asked so I mean just the raw score not the net duplicate score.

[Cyberyeti]

apollo1201, on 2023-May-05, 13:07, said:

-9 XX 😱😱

Although -8 XX has more than likely happened several times over an undiscussed multi, 2D - X - XX all pass, with XX pick your M for one, and I want to play 2D XX for the other

The deal is detailed in the middle of this article http://youth.worldbr...idge-disasters/

[cloa513]

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Who is going to resist bidding 7S as South?

[Cyberyeti]

cloa513, on 2023-May-07, 04:03, said:

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Who is going to resist bidding 7S as South?

Any competent bridge player, at the very worst, you open 4N and when partner shows the ♣A, you bid 7N

[mikeh]

Peter Fredin, iirc, holds the record for the biggest minus in Bermuda Bowl history….-3400.

[pescetom]

mikeh, on 2023-May-07, 14:02, said:

Peter Fredin, iirc, holds the record for the biggest minus in Bermuda Bowl history….-3400.

Please don't leave us hanging there...

[cloa513]

Cyberyeti, on 2023-May-07, 04:17, said:

Any competent bridge player, at the very worst, you open 4N and when partner shows the ♣A, you bid 7N

I didn't mean to give partner the ♣A

[apollo1201]

Cyberyeti, on 2023-May-07, 00:28, said:

The deal is detailed in the middle of this article http://youth.worldbr...idge-disasters/

Impressive! Thanks ^^

[cloa513]

mikeh, on 2023-May-07, 14:02, said:

Peter Fredin, iirc, holds the record for the biggest minus in Bermuda Bowl history….-3400.

You mean Andrew Robinson.

[Cyberyeti]

The highest I've ever got is 2470 from 7♥X (team mates put 6♠X on the floor or we'd have got the full 24 IMPs), but I could have appealed a ruling and certainly got 2800 or maybe part 2800 part 3400.

We started with +130 for 4♣=, opps could have been passed out by partner in 3♣xx, and would have been with correct explanations. Director gave us 2200 with some wrong assumptions about the defence, card perfect defence is 3400 and 2800 is trivial. 2800 would not have been an extra VP and we'd have needed virtually all of 3400 to get one, so we didn't appeal.