To over-ruff or not to over-ruff? THAT is the question.
Terence Reese said: ‘When you’re offered an over-ruff, think twice about it, and then reject it.’ If you have a natural trump trick, it’s usually wrong to waste it on an over-ruff, but when you don’t, it can be hard to resist. Good old Terence was right though (he usually was); it often costs at least one trick, sometimes more…
The Chairman’s Cup in Sweden at the end of July was won by a multi-national team led by Gillian Miniter, from the USA, playing with Joe Grue, Tom Paske and – almost inevitably these days – the Rimstedt brothers.
Here’s one of them – probably Ola – at the helm in a contract illustrating the point above.
The non-vulnerable twins did a lot of bidding, owing each other about a trump each for the final contract.
West decided on a Heart lead. Ola won in dummy and started Clubs.
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