|
VOYAGE OF
DISCOVERY |
21 |
Before Declarer
makes the crucial guess in the trump suit he fishes around for useful
information (see also 25) |
|
COUNTING THE
HAND |
22 |
Declarer counts out
East's distribution with beneficial results |
|
AN AFTERNOON NAP |
23 |
East dozes off during the defense and East misses a golden opportunity
to wake him up! |
|
HOLD-UP PLAY |
24 |
Hold-up plays are
common in No Trump play, but in this suit contract it would have saved
the day also. |
|
FISHING FOR
CLUES |
25 |
Clues on how the
enemy cards are distributed don't always come gift-wrapped, sometimes
Declarer must go fishing |
|
INTRODUCING DR
GOODLEAD |
26 |
When Partner's
opening lead makes no sense whatsoever then maybe he is trying to tell
you something! |
|
THREE DEGREES OF BACON |
27 |
West puts himself in
Partner's shoes and comes up with a truly astonishing play |
|
GOT YOU
SURROUNDED |
28 |
To see how a
"surrounding play" works, please check this article. |
|
TAKE FOUR |
29 |
E-W do some
spectacular unblocking in order to thwart Declarer |
|
COUNT SIGNALS |
30 |
Good defenders
signal Partner in various ways, perhaps the most valuable of these is
the count signal |
|
THE SAFE HAND |
31 |
When
you have to lose a trick, losing it into the "safe hand" sure beats the
alternative |
|
SECOND HAND HIGH |
32 |
"Second hand low" is
common advice, but this is a hand where it pays to ignore that
recommendation |
|
THIRD HAND
TRICKERY |
33 |
Declarer is
constantly on the lookout for clues ... on this hand East has the chance
to lay a false trail |
|
A
DUMMY REVERSAL |
34 |
A
ruff or two in the short hand (usually Dummy) is a common way to
accumulate extra tricks ... sometimes several ruffs in the long hand is
the way to go |
|
THE CROCODILE
COUP |
35 |
This
spectacular defensive coup is easy to miss, and in fact was in this deal
from a World Championship |
|
MORTON'S FORK |
36 |
Here we discuss tax
collection methods in Medieval England, and how they relate to modern
day bridge |
|
THE
TRUMP COUP |
37 |
You hold Kxxx of trumps
and Dummy on your right has xx. Are you sure to score a trump trick?
Not necessarily, you may be about to fall victim to a Trump Coup |
|
ANTI-BATH COUP |
38 |
You may well have
heard of the Bath Coup, this article goes one step further |
|
THE MERRIMAC
COUP |
39 |
Historians of the
Spanish-American War will have no difficulty figuring out how this coup
got its exotic name |
|
THE SCISSORS
COUP |
40 |
Here's a play designed to snip the
communications between the defenders |