West led the queen of hearts. Declarer played low from dummy and East took the trick with his singleton ace, and then had to find the entry to West’s hand to acquire his ruff.
The most familiar type of elimination play is the "ruff and discard elimination". The defender who is thrown on lead has the choice between playing on a suit, to your advantage, or giving you a ruff and discard.
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...
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.
