Dealer: East
Opening Lead:Â Â J | “My wife and I have been together for 35 years,” a club player told me, “and I’ve learned the first rule of marriage: ‘If your wife isn’t talking, don’t interrupt.'”My friend was declarer at today’s four spades. He ruffed the second heart, cashed the top trumps and ran the diamonds. East refused to ruff. When South next led a club to dummy’s king, East took the ace and cashed his high trump, and South lost another club at the end. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UNMAKABLE “My wife didn’t say anything,” South said, “but I broke the rule and observed that the contract was unmakable. If I led a club early, East could win and lead a third heart, promoting a second trump trick for the defense. That was a mistake: My wife informed me that four spades was cold.”After South takes the A-K of trumps, he leads dummy’s deuce of clubs. East must play low, and the queen wins. South then gets to dummy with high diamonds to ruff two more hearts and continues diamonds. He is sure of 10 tricks no matter what East does.(As South actually played, he could succeed if he’d won the fourth diamond in dummy.)DAILY QUESTION You hold: ANSWER Copyright © 2015, Tribune Media Services |
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