Daily Bridge Club

“My wife insists that I’m the boss in our family,” a club player told me, “but I just chair the fundraising committee. What she says, goes — especially at bridge.”

Against four spades, my friend’s wife led the king and a low diamond, and he took the A-Q.

“She discarded the deuce of clubs,” East said. “I knew I’d better heed that, so I led a fourth diamond. Declarer discarded a heart, and my wife ruffed with her ten of trumps for down one. If South ruffs with a high trump in his hand, I win a trump trick.”

TEN FALLS

Actually, South can always succeed. He ruffs the fourth diamond with the ace and takes the K-Q. When West’s ten falls, South can cash the A-K of hearts, ruff a heart, overtake his queen of clubs with dummy’s king and lead a high heart.

If East ruffs with the six, South overruffs with the seven, draws East’s last trump and wins the 13th trick with the ace of clubs. If East discards at Trick 11, South discards the ace of clubs, and East’s trumps are couped.

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