Janet de Botton

Bridge | 27 March 2021

issue 27 March 2021

The Young Chelsea Knock Out is a terrific tournament, and the best thing about it is that the winners get invited to play in the prestigious Lederer Trophy, closed to all but top-flight home and international invited teams. Nowadays the format has changed to double knockout, and is highly successful and enjoyable. Hopefully, the tantalising bait of a place in the Lederer is still on the table.

This hand, from our round two match against Kath Stynes’s team, was handled expertly by both my team mate Thor-Erik Hoftaniska and by Kath, who, at the other table, reached exactly the same end position (see diagram).

The defence started with two rounds of Diamonds, Kath ruffing the second and tested trumps, discovering that West had a trump trick.

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