It’s always good to know where you draw the line and my line, drawn in thick black ink, was going to China to play the World Championships. I last went to the Far East in 1997 and I’m still not fully over the jet lag. As Victor Silverstone told me in slightly less exotic Peterborough, ‘It’s a long way to go for a game of cards.’
Next up to Solihull (I know — the glamour) for the final weekend of the Premier League. We had been unceremoniously booted out of Division One last year and had to be in the top two to get promoted. Mission accomplished! This board, played by my teammate Tom Townsend, was much discussed later and even double-dummy it was hard to find a way home:
West led the ♣2. Ten tricks are tantalisingly close but the problem is that you can’t enjoy the King of Clubs unless you draw trumps, and if you draw trumps — you can’t get a Spade ruff in dummy.
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