Sunday, 30 April 2017

Winner-on-Winner


South, a pretty face, dealt this hand and opened 1, North straightaway jumped to 4. Recognising West’s lead as a short suit lead, she quickly attacked trumps after winning the first club. West played small and East won the A to lead second club. South persisted in trumps, East signaling with the 10, as West won K. West led a diamond to East’s A and a third round of clubs set a ruff for West, sending the game down one and causing a look of pain on pretty face. 

South should have understood that the A is a greater threat to her than a trump honor. Therefore declarer should have played a diamond before playing trumps. 

East would have captured dummy’s Q with her A and returned a club. Now, a spade to dummy’s ♠A and South could have discarded her last high club on dummy’s K — the winner-on-winner play. It was safe for South to lead trumps now regardless of how the defenders maneuvre; all that was left for them just two top trump tricks. 

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose!


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