HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!
I have made a resolution to make some bridge resolutions. Here they are:
1. When declaring, I will never again play to the first trick in a nanosecond. I will explain to the opps, in an insufferably smug tone, that I always take at least two minutes to plan the play.
2. I will NOT play for six hours a day and then hit Bridge Baron obsessively the minute I get home.
3. I will watch partner’s signals religiously, rather than pick at my chipped nail.
4. I will read more bridge books.
Today’s hand comes from Lukacs’ and Rubens’ Test Your Play as Declarer and neatly covers resolutions 1 and 4.
West led the ♥3 and the key play occurred at trick one. If declarer wins with the ♥K and tries to draw trump, because they split 4–1 he is down. The best he can do is switch to diamonds, but after three rounds, when he plays ♥A, West ruffs and the defence take two clubs and a heart.
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