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...J Paul HorneAlexandria, VA, US...
...If — as here — East holds the master trump, declarer can score J♣ “en passant”, ruffing when East fails to ruff, or discarding his spade loser when, as he did, East ruffs in....
...Patrick J Allen River Forest, IL, US...
...J Paul Horne Alexandria, VA, US...
...BiddingDealer: SouthLove All West led J♠; declarer counted four potential losers in his hand: a spade, a club and two diamonds....
...In the event, nine tricks scored 35 per cent, 10 tricks were worth about 70 per cent and 11 tricks over 95 per cent. Paul Mendelson’s new book, ‘The Joy of Bridge’, is out now...
...Declarer must be alert to making his ruffs quickly, so he must preserve a fast re-entry to his hand. He should take trick 1 in dummy with K♣, cash ♥AK and lead 3♥ to ruff in dummy....
...East overtakes the lead with A♠ and returns J♠. When this holds the trick, he switches to 10♣. Declarer rises with A♣ and reflects on the play to date....
...Winning in hand, South plays J♠ to A♠ and ruffs a low spade in hand. He crosses to dummy’s Q♥ and ruffs a second low spade, noting that the suit is dividing 4-3....
...Morgan Entrekin, chief executive of Grove Atlantic, the publisher behind last year’s Booker prize-winner, Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song, agrees. “The boom in [romantasy] has been amazing,” he says....
...So who has got how much where and how much they’re willing to share out is a sort of unknowable equation until the moment actually happens. But in theory, yes....
...South put in J♠ and, when West won with A♠, declarer had successfully negotiated all the obstacles. Paul Mendelson’s new book, ‘The Joy of Bridge’, is out now...
...Paul Mendelson’s new book, ‘The Joy of Bridge’, is out now...
...He has the same losing options as West but with a bonus fourth one too: if he leads a trump, declarer can run it to dummy’s 10♠ or take East’s J♠ in hand, and then cross to 10♠....
...If he had four spades to the ace-jack, he would have put in J♠ at trick one, so declarer is marked with four spades....
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...wrote recently in Foreign Affairs....
...It shows Tehran that “you’re vulnerable, we have much greater capabilities than you think”....
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...But the devil is in the details. We’re US lawyers, so we’ll analyse the US context only....
...When West passes, North’s forced 2D response promises nothing, but South must hope that North holds something to make game a good shot: a couple of low spades, plus K♥ or J♣ make it pretty much lay-down....
...Now, declarer’s carefully preserved 3♠ comes to the fore: overtaken in dummy with 4♠, and J♦ cashed, on which South can pitch a low heart. Still in dummy, a heart can be led towards K♥....
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