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1/25/2025: Wafik Abdou
notes that if declarer on Board
2 held the king-doubleton of spades, it would mean that
partner had led the
spade four from QJ94, a holding from which she surely would have led the
queen. That rules out the alternative layout
I suggested you consider.
2/18/2025: Michael Kopera
correctly challenges my statement in the Results section of Board 32, in which I
assert that any
deviation from
the path I propose leads to down one. An alternative successful line after
winning the heart king at trick
two is to lead a spade to the queen (it doesn't help West to rise), cash the
diamond ace discarding a heart (or not, it can also
be done later), and finesse the club queen. When that wins, cash the
club ace and cross-ruff. Michael's line works when West
has the spade ace and East has the club king, a layout consistent with the
auction and the play to the first two tricks. If you
adopted it, award yourself North-South plus 620.
10/28/2025: Avon Wilsmore
found an incorrect statement in the Results section of Board 9, where I credited a failing line in 6S with a
“lucky”
score of plus 980. The textual error stemmed from an attempt to make the deal
more interesting than it was as
originally
dealt. After writing up the original layout, in which West had the doubleton 10
of spades that allowed the club
ruff line
to succeed, I moved a third spade into the West hand. I did that so that I could
point out how a Western falsecard
could
induce declarer to fail. Unfortunately, I neglected to correct the result, which
should say “If you played to ruff a
club in
dummy, North-South minus 50.”
Eagle-eyed
Avon also found that bane of bridge writers, a duplicated spot card, on Board
12. West’s club five should be
the six.
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