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Today’s deal is from a pairs tournament which had twenty tables. Except for two pairs, who declared 6C, all others reached 3NT with the N-S cards. A rare type of squeeze came up and one declarer seized the opportunity to make eleven tricks, after a favourable lead. Plan the play and see if you can […]

Last fortnight we saw a deal where declarer, almost magically, made a seemingly impossible 6♥ contract. Incredible as that deal was, it didn’t get the team anything because some extraordinary play occurred in the closed room as well, albeit in a 6♠ contract from the other direction. Read what happened and marvel at the beauty

Today’s deal is from an IMPs match. What seemed an easy contract, suddenly became difficult when declarer came to know the foul split in spades after the opening lead. Yet he found a brilliant solution. See if the solution occurred to you.     The bidding is as explained above. After South signed off with

We had posed you, dear viewers a lead problem yesterday. Did you think about what you may like to lead? If you are able to visualize partner’s likely hand from the bidding or make an educated guess, you can come up with some stunning leads. In short, you have to be imaginative.     So,

Today’s hand is from an eight-deal Chicago event with total point scoring. We are not presenting this as a problem. Rather just as something to be seen and enjoyed. Both from the revealing bidding and from the line of play adopted by the declarer, the defenders were more than convinced that he was trying for

This is another one of those ‘Look before you leap’ series with the title of the post giving you an additional clue about what needs to be done. Today’s deal is from an IMP pairs tournament. You are in the reasonable contract of 4♥. See if you can make the contract after the lead of

Everyone knows how important it is to make an overtrick in match-points. Experts always look for opportunities to outstrip others, playing in his/her direction. Take the South seat below from a match-point event.       Analysis: As long as trumps break 3-2, you will have 10 tricks, 5 Spades, 3 Hearts and 2 Diamonds

Today’s deal requires a little bit of luck and excellent technique thereafter Picture yourself in 6NT on the hand below. Can you make the contract? While most declarers failed to score it, one actually went on to score 13 for what is known in Mumbai as an ‘All India Top’ The bidding went simply 2NT-6NT