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Joseph Rosendo always ends his interesting travelogues on PBS with a quote from Mark Twain Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrowmindedness.

When you are bidding with your partner, you are on a journey, hoping to reach the best final contract. ,n today’s deal, what do you think of the given auction What is the best destination for NorthSouth

The deal arose at ridge ase 2nline. pairs of robots had the given sequence. Why did South jump to six no-trump ,ts two-club response was natural and game-forcing. ut even in Standard merican, North’s rebid was a reverse, instigating a game-force. South could have rebid two no-trump to find out more about partner’s hand. Here, North would have continued with three diamonds. Then South might have jumped to four no-trump, oman .ey ard lackwood in diamonds, learning that his partner had the top three diamond honors. ut did he also hold the jack nd what about the club king Well, an e perienced pair could have managed the latter. South would have continued with five notrump, and North would have bid si clubs to show that king.

Then South could have bid the winning final contract of seven clubs! 2f course, North might not have passed!

Note that seven no-trump cannot make with this distribution, but seven clubs is cold. Suppose West leads a trump, killing a spade ruff on the board. eclarer draws trumps, establishes diamonds with one ruff and takes two spades, two hearts, five diamonds and five clubs for an overtrick!