Hints and tips:
...If West holds a singleton club, and East the singleton Q♥, there is nothing to be done but, if West holds a doubleton club, this may seal off East from being able to regain the lead....
...West led 7♣, taken with dummy’s J♣. Perhaps South can overcome a 4-1 trump break if there is a singleton honour, but these thin contacts usually require some decent divisions....
...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....
...Let’s say that East rises with 10♦, J♦ is played and West wins with K♦. If he leads another diamond, it runs to declarer’s ♦A9; if he opts instead for a spade, this runs to South ♠KJ....
...At trick 2, South leads J♣, not covered by West, runs it, and is relieved when it holds....
...BiddingDealer: SouthGame All West led 10♦, identified by all as a singleton, and declarer won in hand and led a trump....
...Here, declarer thought of it in terms of “restricted choice”: if East had held J♠ also, he might have played it: since he did not, it is more likely that West holds it....
...The Prince’s book Spare was produced with ghost writer J.R. Moehringer, who has also written biographies of Andre Agassi, Nike co-founder Phil Knight and bank robber Willie Sutton....
...Playing for 5♥ to be a singleton is foolhardy since, if this is the layout, declarer would hold ♥K92 and two heart tricks might belong to East naturally....
...The lead is probably from KJ10xx(x), but declarer worried that East might hold a singleton or doubleton K♠, so she played low from dummy at trick 1....
...Knowing that West holds six hearts, and that 6♦ lead is surely a singleton, allows declarer to keep a count on West’s hand. Declarer covered the lead with dummy’s J♦, East contributed K♦, and South A♦....
...Declarer decided that East’s Q♣ showed J♣, and 10♥ was surely a singleton. West’s plan was clear: win K♠, lead a low club to East’s J♣ and receive the setting heart ruff....
...And I think it was because I knew about lithography and typesetting that after university I was hired by J Walter Thompson,” she recalls of the advertising agency that at the time also employed Bridget Riley...
...J Perry, who helped stranded motorists in Alabama....
...Willie (a tender, deadpan Carsten Jung) is a suitably Beckettian figure with his vest and bowler hat: more porter than porteur....
...If East now leads J♥; again South should play low from hand and ruff in dummy....
...To that end, East leads J♣....
...If East holds K♣, declarer seems doomed, but a superior line caters for a singleton or doubleton K♣ in the East hand, and that is a bonus well worth taking. Declarer draws trumps and lays down A♣....
...Since 6♦ looks like a singleton, and Q♥ is likely to be off-side — leading to two further losers — declarer considered where K♣ would be positioned....
...If declarer covers with J♣, West rises with K♣. If declarer ducks, so does West....
...The lead is a singleton — leading dummy’s first bid suit is foolhardy otherwise. When East plays J♣, South wins A♣, draws all the trumps and plays a club to dummy’s K♣....
...Chief designer is Italian Willie Landels, creator of the 1965 Throw-Away seat for Zanotta, who first met Mark Birley in the 1950s while working in the art department of the advertising agency J Walter Thompson...
...Declarer can see J♥ in dummy, so West’s Q♥ lead is obviously a singleton....
...He won the lead with Q♥ in hand and led 3♦ to J♦ in dummy; East ducking. Abandoning diamonds, he led 3♠ and, when East followed low, he finessed with Q♠. This held the trick....
...J♥ followed and, now when declarer won in dummy and led a third club, East scored his K♣, but had no hearts left to lead. Declarer scored overtricks....
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