When did International Women’s Day become an official fixture? I have never been aware of it before this year and I fumed noisily thinking how patronising it was, ranting on that men don’t have a special day as every day celebrates their importance. Wrong again. There is an International Men’s Day and, if you want to prepare early, it’s in November. ‘What am I getting for IWD,’ I asked my team before playing a fairly early round of the Gold Cup. ‘You get to play ONE hand,’ they replied (almost in unison), ‘in the match tonight. Try not to stuff it up.’ Today’s hand was (mis)played by both expert declarers in a recent match, and even in the postmortem most players got it wrong. How would you have done?
One West led the ♣King, the other the ♣Queen — both looking for an unblock of the Jack but everyone followed small.
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