Trump Suit Headaches: Rx: for Declarers and Defenders Sternberg James Marsh
Trump Suit Headaches: Rx: for Declarers and Defenders Sternberg James Marsh The trump suit adds a dimension that makes bridge so different from other card games. If control is lost, it may be almost…
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Trump Suit Headaches: Rx: for Declarers and Defenders Sternberg James Marsh
The trump suit adds a dimension that makes bridge so different from other card games. If control is lost, it may be almost impossible to make proper use of one's strength in the side suits. In a suit contract, play is complicated by declarer's need to keep control.
If playing a suit contract, is there a reason not to draw trumps? Before playing to trick one, one should ask what might go wrong? Or maybe just some of the trumps?
Safety plays apply to all suits. Focus is on the trump suit, but the same general principles can be applied elsewhere. The skillful player displays pessimism: Suits will break badly, all fi nesses will lose, that's the starting point, and things will probably get worse.
We will look at a series of hands both from the declarer's perspective and the defenders', with focus on the trumps, and see how some of these problems might be managed. With bad trump splits, or