The Brits have done brilliantly in Icelandair’s annual bridge festival in Reykjavik and this year was no different. The winners of the two-day pairs tournament were the Anglo–Bulgarian partnership of Rumen Trendafilov, who has played many times on the Bulgarian Open team, and Nevena Senior, who has won two World Championships (among many other titles) playing on the English Ladies Team.
On today’s deal, Rumen played carefully and accurately to land his spade partscore.
West led Ace and another diamond to declarer’s King. East’s double had shown precisely four spades, which cleared up the distribution of the trump suit. At trick three Rumen led a low spade to the ten, losing to the Jack. Back came a club, West winning the ace and returning the two to dummy’s Jack. Rumen led the ♠8 to the nine and Queen and now needed to find a second entry to dummy to finesse again in spades.
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