A safety play is an effort by declarer to combat a potentially unfavorable distribution of the defenders' cards, there are so many different kinds of safety plays that it is better to...
When you have some kind of a finesse to take to make your contract, put off the finesse until the last possible moment. In the meantime, try to get an accurate count on the opponents' hands.
But last night, last night ... last night I was invited to dinner at the house of Alfredo Versace and Emanuela Pramotton, where I shared an incredible evening, with an amazing group of friends.
Today's hand builds on our recent theme of planning your play before playing to trick 1 (and re-planning at about trick 3 or 4 if the play provides further information).
One of the beauties of bridge is that it gives practitioners a chance to reason and infer, rather than project from a position where everything is known, as in chess.