The Lederer Memorial Trophy was carried off this year by my lovely friend Jonathan Harris, albeit with a little help from his friends. Jonathan played with Steve Root but to sharpen his team, he shipped over Sweden’s new young World Champions Mikael and Ola Rimstedt. The boys are twins and I for one have never known which was which – but all you really need to know is that they are both terrific bridge players.
The auction was identical at both tables, and so was the opening lead: a top Heart.
At our table Mikael (or was it Ola?) was sitting South and West switched to a middle Club. M/O won in dummy and ran the Jack of Spades and, when that held, played another Spade. East took his Ace and forced dummy to ruff a Heart.
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