The Schnapsen Log
May 16, 2012
Forcing the Issue
Martin Tompa
It’s raining outside, but you and your good buddy Peter are warm and dry, back inside the Café Abeles. You have a steaming cup of coffee, a piece of delicious Topfentorte, and the cards are dealt out. Life is good.
Unseen cards:
♠ —
♥ TK
♣ A
♦ TQJYour cards:
♠ T
♥ Q
♣ T
♦ AKTrump: ♥J
Stock: 1 face-down card
Game points: Peter 3, You 3
Trick points: Peter 31, You 29
On lead: Peter
Peter puts down his hand, has a bite of cake, washes it down with a slurp of his coffee, looks back at his hand, thinks some more, closes the stock, and leads ♦J. Plan the play. When you think you have a good plan, you are welcome to read my analysis.
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