| The Tenace that was no Menace |
| In the seniors match between Turkey and Poland 3, won by Poland 19-11, one hand created a problem for the defenders, when one of them did not realize that dummy's cards weren't worth the paper they were printed on:
North led ªA and switched to a trump, to prevent declarer from taking a spade ruff. Left with not much of an alternative West played out all his trumps, dicarding two diamonds and five hearts from dummy. In a moment of confusion South discarded all his spades and came down to © Jx and ¨Kx in the four-card ending. West assumed that he had presented South with a tough defensive problem playing him for ©Kx and ¨Kx and exited with ¨A and another diamond. As South had no spade left he was forced to lead into East's hearts to give declarer two more tricks and +550 Turkey. |
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