You have all heard about the bridge player who could resist anything but temptation. In this case temptation was the chance to get a ruff or two in dummy.
To decide your plan of play in any deal, follow the order of choice of plays. Somewhere in that list will be the play you need to make the contract you are after.
The somewhat esoteric jargon of bridge players—and, we admit, more particularly bridge writers—includes such as "grand coup " "Deschapelles coup," "double squeeze," "strip and end play" and so on.
How I wish I had told this teammate about the advice Grant Baze (one of the top experts in the USA) gave me about 6-6 and 7-6 hands before this deal came up.
