European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse On by Cha u Gofin incl c a both vulnerable. South a108 oa93 j1093 West East 668 499432 pass 6 pass pass pass opening Lead three of How you tackle this hand will Tell a lot about the Standard of you Dummy play. Cover the East West cards and see How you would proceed in your attempt to land 12 tricks at your slam in Spades. The simple Way is to draw Trumps and try to guess which Way to take the two Way Diamond finesse. If you Are an average guess or you will be right half of the More sophisticated line la to draw Trumps and then Cash four heart tricks. From that you learn that East started with Only four cards in the major suits and there fore rates to have longer diamonds than West. If you tackled the hand that Way and played East for the Queen of diamonds you can congratulate yourself on better tech Nique even though you went Down one trick. If you Are a sly fellow you would win the opening Lead in Dummy and Lead the Jack of clubs As if you in tend taking a finesse. Every no Wand then you will fool East into ducking the Ace of clubs and you Are then playing for an Over trick. If you Are a Good technician you will see that if Trumps Are 3-2, you do not need any finesse you can make the hand on a Dummy rever Sal As Long As hearts Are no worse than 4-2. It does no harm to win the first trick on the table and try to steal a trick with the King of clubs. But suppose that East is Wise to you and rises with the Ace of clubs and then reverts to a Trump. Win on the Board and Ruff a club. Cross Back to the ten of Spades and if both defenders follow you can claim your contract. Ruff another club then use the Ace of hearts As the entry to Ruff Dummy s last club. Now All you need do is Cross to the Ace of diamonds to pull the last Trump discarding your remaining Diamond and your two High hearts take the last tricks. Q. As South vulnerable you hold 87 Udall c is ? m find Tamsi g discover Whf custom Haiti s numbered s Brown. 9-fimi& in you Trust your eyes there Are at least six diver men in drawing details Between top and Bottom panels. Hew quickly can you find them Check answers with Tho it Mew. My Etui a a3ii my fun Tumuli n mis c Annm of a i few we Tig i Inua Ira score 10 p letters in me it two Complete Coll then score a words of four found among tit try the seer a crypt quip Man Yusz pm Subhy m b v d s l bowl do Whf opus up gwm mgl ougvvgxz1 today s crypt pulp clue f equals x
