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...He could now return to hand via a spade ruff and draw one of West’s trumps before cashing heart winners. West scores J♣, but that is all....
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...West leads ♥AK; switches to 10♦. Declarer still has potential losers in both trumps and clubs. Winning A♦, he leads J♠ and runs it. West takes K♠ and exits with 3♦....
...To celebrate, we went to The John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to see a Tchaikovsky production by Ballet West....
...As a self-described “very weird” child growing up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, she had always veered towards the magical, devouring a steady diet of fairy tales and folklore....
...West led J♦, and declarer saw a probable trump loser and at least one spade loser. His best chance is to attempt to score all his low trumps individually....
...But it might also help to explain the instances of over-reach, whether in Algeria or in the endless Gaullist pipe dreams of serving as a “third force” between the west and its enemies....
...BiddingDealer: SouthLove All West led J♠; declarer counted four potential losers in his hand: a spade, a club and two diamonds....
...He has been a prominent dealmaker in the UK, making investments in supermarket chain J Sainsbury and London football club West Ham United....
...That’s the view I had when I was a kid: that it was too serious and you had to have a certain kind of taste to understand it,” says José Balvin, aka J Balvin, the Latin reggaeton superstar who ranks among...
...Chris Rossbach, a fund manager at J Stern & Co, said it had voted in favour of Disney’s board recommendations....
...He pulls the final trump, crosses to J♦, and ruffs a third spade with his last trump....
...At one table, South won 8♥ lead with dummy’s J♥, and then cashed ♥AK, discarding 5♠ from dummy. Knowing that the leader started with a short suit made him believe that West was long elsewhere....
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...West usually started with A♠, before switching to J♣. A couple of pairs weirdly eschewed the top spade lead and opted for J♣ — this could lead to defeat for declarer whatever he does....
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...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....
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...The bigger pipeline will also enable more Canadian oil volumes to hit US west coast states such as California, potentially replacing some supplies imported from Latin America and the Middle East....
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...As do the assumptions of the current cohort of geopolitical grinches in western governments....
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...Counting complete, West pounced. He rose with A♦, laid down K♣ — pinning South’s J♣ — and then continued with 7♣, allowing East to score both his 10♣ and A♣, which set the contract....
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