I was watching board 31 and, since Grue/Moss play Precision I figured they might well have the tools to do it.
So what happened?
Well, I don't know Precision but I took one of the comments as a uint.
Fairly far into the auction, we see the comment:
lmilne: Grue hasn't shown anything yet, just asking Moss what's up
So I gather from the comment that Grue asks, Moss tells, then Grue decides. If that is so, then Grue knows he has the
K and he decides, but to decide 6
he has to know that Moss has the
Q.
I don't know if I have correctly identified the problem, but it seems possible. I imagine we will hear a lot about this one. I think my explanation is possiible, but I confess I am guessing.
On 32, I think the 7
could be found by standard methods, providing these standard methods are being used by someone of the caliber of Robson-Gold. Well, sure it can be, because it was!
Playing with my clone, the auction would begin as theirs did
1NT - 2
3
- 4
Assuming we have the tools to find out about the top honors, meaning aces and kings,, we now count tricks: 5 spades, 1 heart, 4 diamonds, 2 clubs. That's 12 tricks. But wait. Ruffing a heart with a spade in the long spade hand will not produce trick 13, ruffing a heart with a diamond in the hand with three diamonds will. Voila. So Robson suggests 7D might work, Gold looks at his stiff heart and says yep.
Again I don't know enough about their methods to know how certain they were that 13 tricks were there, but if they want to try for 13 this is surely the way to do it when playing standard methods. If you are Moss-Gold. My clone and I would not be there.
This was one terrific BB and a remarkable last 2 boards. I expect to see these boards discussed in depth for a long time.