European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 3, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse By Charles gor6n Sharif t is know your card combinations West a j87 4 v q 8 3, 0 10 7 a 0 86 5 both vulnerable. South deals. North 0k29 k 7 6/4 Quot a 0q9y2 a a 107 East a 10 0 6 6 3 v i 10 0 5. 0 4 a a a v a a kj2 South a a <7 a2 0 a kj0 6 5 a q 4 3 a a the bidding. South weal North East 1 0 pass 19 Pom 3 it pass 4 it Pana 6 it pass pass pass opening Lead four of a. Some card combinations crop up so frequently that you should know the right play by heart. Here a a situation that could Lead the average player astray. North South reached the no Trump slim on a Power auction. However South should have accepted North a invitational no Trump raise by jumping to six diamonds allowing partner to choose the final contract the suit slam is somewhat better than no. Trump since Declarer can strip the major suits before tackling clubs. Where we watched Declarer lost no time in botching the hand. Since there were 11 fast tricks South won the first trick in hand with the Ace and immediately led a Low dub to. The ten. Unlucky. The defenders did hot err so Declarer had to Settle for 11 tricks. The key is the dub suit but when the fates have been kind enough to Deal you a Long suit you can do a lot worse than run it however Here you can take Only five diamonds because the sixth would give you a discarding problem. You can pitch a heart on the fifth Diamond and on the sixth you can let go of the King of Spades. Nevertheless if the defenders Are careful everything still boils Down to the club suit. The percentage play is to Cross to the table and Lead a Low club toward the Queen. If that Losea to the King in the West hand Declarer can later finesse the ten of clubs. That gives Declarer two Chance for the contract instead of one. As the cards lie the King of clubs is with East so her majesty becomes the fulfilling trick. Fool some of the people some of the time East West deals. Vulnerable. West West North a j 8 3 9 k 7 4 0 62 a a j 106 East j a a 109 7 2# 9 0 a 2 a j 84 10 8 5 9 6 9 6 7 6 5 3 4 3 3 2 9 0 a South a k 6 4 9 a q j 10 8 0 kq7 a k 9 the bidding a West North East South 1 a Para pass dbl 2 a 3 4 Para 3 9 past 4 9. Para Para pass a. A opening Lead Ace of a Quot a most unusual hand a remarked the kibitzer a any time North has a Power raise to four hearts you probably want to play three no Trump. Yet if North a raise is based mostly on distribution four hearts is clearly the better _ the hand that occasioned this observation occurred in an expert team match and both team reached answers for crypt quip a 1 sunday crossword four hearts on identical auctions. South s takeout double in the balancing seat was automatic and North bid Only three clubs to protect in Case South had stretched to compete. At the two tables the opening Lead was the Ace of Spades. As soon As Dummy hit the table it was obvious three no Trump was a far Superior contract. Both declares realized East would surely Ruff the second Spade so each dropped the King of Spades under the Ace As East followed with the five. It would now seem that if West continued with the Queen of Spades Declarer would Ruff and be Able to get a discard on the Jack. Yet both expert wests promptly placed the Queen of Spades on the table. Why look at the Spade spots West can see that the four is missing. If Declarer a King of Spades were an honest card that would give East 6 5 4, and from that holding East would have played the four after cashing the Queen of Spades both West a continued with the ten of Spades a suit preference signal for diamonds. That would have Defeated the contract two tricks had East been dealt the Queen of diamonds possible on the auction but Down one did not displease the defenders in the least. 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