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Over the years, some eyebrows have been raised when I criticized the use of MUD leads (middle, up, down) from three cards. I accept that it may occasionally be useful to know that your partner has led from an honor. But, more frequently, when you lead the middle card, partner may not interpret your holding till it is too late. Watch one of the world's top pairs experiencing this problem. Both tables reached three no-trump, and both declared it the wrong way up.

Both Wests led a spade, and both declarers found the correct technical move of rising with dummy's spade queen, forc ing East to win the trick and thus cut himself off from the long spades. Had declarer not inserted the spade queen, he would have had no chance, whatever he did. So far, so technically competent; but the difference was that, in one room, Agustin Madala as East knew from the lead of the spade 5 that his partner had at most two spades. He shifted to a diamond and found his partner with the perfect hand to defeat the game. In the other room, Adam Zmudzynski had to deal with the possibility that his partner had started with the 5-4 or the 8-5-4.

He guessed wrong, continuing spades. Declarer won in hand, set up first a heart, then a diamond winner, and claimed nine tricks. SOUTH 8 3 9 6 3 7 A 4 3 Vulnerable: Neither Dealer: East The bidding: South West North Fast 2 A Pass Pass 3 4 Pass 3 NT All pass Opening lead: Spade five Bobby Wolff, bobbywolffmindstream.com, United Feature Syndicate NON SEQUITUR a wm ii i i ii i WoU To TE.LL Wh WILL EMPLoytR' JoB by ft SUDOKU PUZZLE Today's puzzle answer: Next page. Complete the grid so that every row, column and 3x3 mM midmmmi i 9.6. 8 box contains every digit from 1 to 9 inclusively.

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