[diana_eva]

I thoroughly enjoyed this interview with Fred Gitelman, which he generously took the time to do with the BBO team.

As always, he is humble and thoughtful, despite his exceptional achievements. And congratulations to him on his recent election to the Hall of Fame, very well deserved.

The interview includes a suit combination problem proposed by Fred. Thought it would be appropriate to bring it here.

You need two tricks:

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Disclaimer: I do not know the solution; hopefully Fred will be able to post it, if he's still lurking around here

[AL78]

Run the queen, if the king is onside you can establish trick by knocking out JT with the 987 assuming East covers with the king, if they don't cover you have two tricks immediately.

If West wins with the king, lead towards the South hand, if JT are onside you make a second slow trick. If West wins, plan to play the ace and hope to drop the outstanding honor card.

This is looking at the suit in isolation and assuming you have the entries necessary in other suits to do this.

[pescetom]

Interesting interview with a great guy.

I think al78 got it right, certainly higher percentage than the instinctive play of small towards the Queen. It's easy to think of South as Axxx but in reality all three spot cards will win against all but three cards of the opponents.