DIVERSIONS
BRIDGE by David Bird
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East-West game, dealer South
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orth responds with a transfer bid, showing five or more spades. His continuation of 5S is a general slam try, which South is happy to accept. How will you play 6S when West leads the king of clubs? One possibility is to bank everything on a trump finesse. If you can pick up the trumps without loss, you will score seven trumps and five top winners in the side suits. A better idea is to combine two different chances. You win the first trick with the ace of clubs and play the ace of trumps. This is the second-best play in the trump suit, yes, but when the king does not fall, you are still alive. You can take your second chance: attempting to discard dummy’s three losers in clubs. You cross to the king of hearts and
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