Re: subject will become clearer afterwards

On 2017-10-27 5:36 PM, Herman De Wael wrote:
> But this is all the information you are likely to extract.

It's still unclear how strong the 2C opener had to be.

This is a difficult opening lead problem, and any suit could be right. 
I think today I'll try the fourth-best spade (or my standard spot card 
lead if different), but high spade or heart Q are fine alternatives. 
Either minor could be the only lead to beat the contract, but those look 
less likely to me.  My main hope for the spade lead is that opener has 
stiff A or Ax, and I have two heart entries before they take 9 tricks, 
but there are other layouts that will also work.  Of course it could 
also give away the ninth trick: two spades, two hearts, and five in the 
minors.  If that's the case, though, we may never have been beating the 
contract because they could take one spade, three hearts, and the same 
five in the minors.

At matchpoints or BAM, I'd probably lead H-Q, trying to give nothing away.
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