Hints and tips:
...When an opponent wins A♦, declarer does not want a spade switch, since this could — and does — lead to four spade losers and the failure of 3NT....
...East can enjoy his four heart winners, but is finally forced into leading a spade from his king, ensuring the final two tricks....
...At the first table, declarer won in dummy, and played a spade to ace and cashed the king. When Q♠ failed to drop, he was one down....
...Declarer now requires spade tricks; many cashed ♦AKQ and tried a spade to dummy’s king. This lost to East’s A♠ and the hand was over....
...And in Velázquez’s “Las Meninas” (1656), the viewer is placed in the shoes of the king and queen of Spain, visible in a mirror, while they are being painted by Velázquez himself, thereby blowing the mind...
...An MBA gave Grant a rich set of skills and network support, but what he already had in spades was confidence. “It is quite easy,” he says....
...BiddingDealer: SouthLove All Game The key to success here will be to give yourself the best chance of surviving the attack on spades....
...Fewer still could number King Charles III among their client list....
...We sit down in his workplace at the heart of it; the room includes a fluffy chair, a spade, a large gourd and a sculpture of a cat. Heatherwick is particular about words....
...With a protected king, or a singleton, you bid six of the suit; with the ace or void, you cue-bid the suit. Here, if West held A♦, 7NT would be cold....
...I’ve mentioned Kardashian’s forest garden to some of the nature-loving folk who hang around my country cottage, and who take an organic view to bathing and money and occasionally lift up a spade....
...His interest led him to American Ruth Stout’s “no work” gardening books of the 1950s and to growers such as FC King and Arthur Guest, who practised no-dig gardening in the 1940s....
...The first group pays off in spades in terms of fundraising: Harvard’s endowment tops $50bn, more than six times that of its elite UK rivals....
...The approach required a strong stomach for risk, which the young Frenchman possessed in spades....
...They also decided that each king should resemble a historical monarch: King David for spades, Alexander the Great for clubs, Charlemagne for hearts and Julius Caesar for diamonds....
...The images include a freshly broken ice hole briefly pulsating with water before refreezing, and a spade digging into earth alive with ants....
...At the second table South, lacking both shape, and the aces and kings vital for suit contracts, sensibly eschewed the 8-card spade fit, and settled for 3NT....
...Despite the 3-0 trump break and the spade finesse failing, 6C still succeeds, as the spade finesse can be avoided by pitching 4♠ from hand on dummy’s fourth diamond....
...They spread freely and are actually improved by being divided with a downward thrust of a sharp spade after three years....
...The 5NT continuation is usually played to ask partner to name the suit in which she holds a king, so North’s 5D showed K♦....
...Having done so, a couple of declarers then switched to attacking spades, and brought home nine tricks. The correct line, however, is for declarer first to take the spade finesse. What can East do?...
...And Joey has that in spades,” she says, striking the pose from his ads....
...To succeed, South could draw trumps and ruff two spade losers in dummy....
...The angst of the writing life is a regular theme in Stephen King’s horror fiction, but constructing a plot around the difficulties of handling a deceased author’s literary estate seems niche even for him...
...If his hearts were solid, he could discard three of dummy’s spades on winning hearts, leaving only a singleton. Therefore, if East-West have A♠ and K♠ to cash, they must do it right now....
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