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English 55 Virtual European Championship - part 1 Krzysztof Martens BOARD 5 ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ 54 762 9754 QJ104 ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ KQ96 A109 AJ2 A32 ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ J1082 KJ83 103 K96 ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ A73 Q54 KQ86 875 Contract 4♠, Lead ♣ Q The main point - Make sure you try all the options. Win the first trick with the king of clubs and lead the Three of diamonds. If South has both diamond honours, you can pitch your losing club on the jack of diamonds. If not, then you will have to find the queen of hearts. Closed room - Contract 3NT: +400 for EW. Play a diamond at trick 2: +420 = +1 IMP If not (even if you think you would have guess right in hearts!): -50 = -10 IMP BOARD 6 ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ J106 10976 1092 J87 ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ K84 A543 A8 K652 ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ 73 KQ K7653 A943 ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ AQ952 J82 QJ4 Q10 Contract 3NT. South opened 1 ♠ . Lead ♠ J, winning, followed by ♠ 10. The main point - Remember the squeeze. If you cannot set up a squeeze yourself, get the defenders to help you. Ducking a second spade by South practically guarantees that the suit breaks 5-3. Defenders do not like to enable a declarer to throw them in. Win the second spade and concede a spade trick to South. In this way the communication between the defenders is broken. If South runs his winning spades North will have problems with discards. You discard two clubs from your hand and two diamonds and a club from the dummy. According to the cards North throws, you will "know which squeeze to execute. You can