Tip of the Week–On Defence

ON DEFENCE

When your partner has BID a suit and you are defending, you should lead partner’s suit unless you clearly have a much better alternative.  Also if your partner has LED a suit, you should RETURN PARTNER’S SUIT WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE, unless you have something clearly better to do and don’t mind looking for a new partner.

DEFENDING AGAINST A NO-TRUMP CONTRACT

1.  If partner has bid a suit lead it;

WHICH CARD?

– top card of a DOUBLETON. (E.g., 7 2 lead 7). (Q 5 lead Q)

– top of touching honours (E.g., Q, J, 3) lead the Q, followed by J, then the 3)

– no sequence in P’s suit lead low (E.g., K 2 3 – lead the 3)

2.  If Partner did not bid,

– lead top of touching honours from  a 3 card suit or longer in your hand

– no sequence, lead 4th from longest and strongest (with a choice of suits lead the stronger or the unbid suit)

Tips to follow:

DEFINING the sequence, broken sequence and interior sequence!

Stay tuned….

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