DAILY BRIDGE CLUB
Cy the Cynic, a shameless chauvinist, and Wendy, our club’s ardent feminist, are always at odds.
“I know you think Wendy is kin to Lucifer,” I told Cy, “but you’d like her if you knew her better.”
“There’s a little angel in her smile, a little devil in her eyes,” Cy said. “Look what she did as declarer.”
Cy showed me today’s deal. He and Wendy were North-South in a penny game.
“I put her in four spades,” the Cynic said. “The contract was hopeless, off three trumps and a heart, but she made it. West cashed a heart and shifted to a club. Wendy won and judged to play West for a singleton trump honor. She ruffed her last heart in dummy and led the QUEEN of trumps.”
Crash: East thoughtlessly covered with the king, and there was a loud crash as West’s ace fell. Wendy later got to dummy to lead a second trump toward her ten. Making four. “She swindled poor East,” I said. “Be careful whom you trust,” Cy sighed, “especially Wendy. The devil was once an angel.”
Daily question
You hold: ♠ 108542 ♥ 93
♦Q 9♣ AK Q J. Your partner opens one diamond, you respond one spade, he bids two hearts and you try three clubs. Partner then bids three diamonds. What do you say?
Answer: Your partner “reversed.” His bidding suggests six diamonds, four hearts and a big hand. If he has only None, AK 76, AK J 864,654, you can make seven diamonds. The auction is forcing to game, so you can raise to four diamonds and await developments.
South dealer
N-S vulnerable