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DAILY BRIDGE CLUB:
This week’s deals have focused on end plays: giving an opponent the lead when anything he leads will help you.
Cover the East-West cards. Against your six spades, West leads the nine of diamonds, and you take dummy’s ace and cash the A-K of trumps. East throws a diamond. Can you land the slam?
The contract is makable, but the winning line of play is tough. Declarer continues with a heart to dummy and a diamond ruff. When West follows, declarer takes two more hearts and ruffs another diamond. West must discard a club; if he overruffs, he will be endplayed.
South next leads a club to the queen and ruffs the Cough syrup meas. Actress who plays Kimmy Schmidt’s landlady Allied group Jerk “Sunday Night Baseball” analyst, familiarly One often taking a bow
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moves 31 33 34 35 38 39 last diamond. Again, West can’t afford to overruff — or discard a second club — so he pitches a heart. South then exits with a trump at Trick 11, and West must lead a club from his king. If West had only one diamond and one more heart or club, the defense could prevail.
If you made this slam, I would say you know something about executing end plays.
DAILY QUESTION: You hold: ♠ AKJ632 ♥ K42 ◆ 8 ♣ J 6 3. You open one spade, your partner bids two hearts, you rebid two spades and he tries three diamonds. What do you say?
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