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The recommende­d line works also

- — Phillip Alder

Ab ba E ban, an Israeli politician who was raised and educated in England, said ,“History teaches us that men and nations behave wise ly once they have exhausted all other alternativ­es.” This is the same deal as yesterday. The original scribe claimed that after the trump lead, South could not make four spa des if he ruffed two heart sin the dummy. As demonstrat­ed yesterday, that would have worked. However, what was the alternativ­e line that the author recommende­d? South was right to open one spa de despite having only 11 high-card points. He had the majors, two ace san dan easy re bid. He had a seven-loser hand( two spa des, two hearts, one diamond and two clubs) should partner have a fit for one of the majors. North described a game-force with three-card spade support. South signed off in four spa des with his minimum .( In two over-one game-forcing, North would have rebid two spa des, and South would have jumped to game .) The author proposed establishi­ng dummy’ s diamond suit. Take the first trick in hand and play the diamond 10. SupposeWes­t wins and leads his second trump. Now comes a play that I mentioned last week: a ruffing fines se. Declarer runs dummy’ s diamond queen and discards a heart from his hand (not a low club, but interestin­gly the club ace is OK!). West wins and shifts to a heart. South takes the trick with his ace and leads a low club to dummy’s jack. East wins with the king and returns a heart, but declarer trump sin the dummy, ruffs a diamond, draws West’ s last trump, crosses to the club queen and runs the diamonds.

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