o think for a long time, I feel a strange mix of awe and inferiority. It’s not the fact that they’re thinking, of course – we all do that. It’s the awareness that when it comes to difficult hands, their thought processes resemble mine as much as an Olympic sprinter resembles a contestant in an egg-and-spoon race. They enter a higher dimension of awareness, skill and clarity.
Take my friend David Gold: he found an extraordinary solution to make a tricky 3NT during the recent Reykjavik Bridge Festival (see diagram).
South led ◆Q and David (East) ducked. South continued with the ◆J, won with the ◆K. North discarded a club. If clubs were 3-2, David had nine easy tricks.
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