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is.

Hand 7
East/West have the most points and Í 3 2
West will be the declarer. Again it looks Ì K Q J 10 7 6
that with 25 points we should be thinking Ë Q 6 5
of the 9 trick contract. However, again we Ê 7 5
Í A Q Í K J 7 4
should count them carefully before
Ì 4 3 2 Ì A
committing ourselves. Ë J 8 7 4 Ë 10 9 3 2
On the ÌK lead we have 1 heart and 4 Ê A K Q 6 Ê J 9 3 2
clubs. We only have 4 spades if we can get Í 10 9 8 6 5
to the dummy after cashing the ÍA and 8 Ì 9 8 5
16 9 Ë A K
queen. That entry is the ÊJ. So we must
7 Ê 10 8 4
win our two spades at tricks 2 and 3 and
then cross to the ÊJ and play the two winning spades before returning to
the clubs.
We are starting to have to think ahead quite a lot but here we "go
game".

Í A K 2
Hand 8
Ì A Q 3
North is the declarer with Ë A 6 4 2
North/South only having 23 points Ê 10 8 6
between them. Í 7 6 3 Í Q J 9 8 5 4
Let us count our tricks - 2 spades, 4 Ì 9 8 6 5 Ì 7 4
Ë K Q 10 Ë 9 8
hearts and 1 diamond. That is 7 and while
Ê K Q 3 Ê A 7 2
we might get another "in the wash" we
Í 10
should settle for declaring a "part score". 17 Ì K J 10 2
10 7 Ë J 7 5 3
6 Ê J 9 5 4

Note that the phrase “in the wash” means that the opponents might
fail to play optimally and give you a trick that, if they could see all of the
hands, you did not deserve.

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