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Bridge Beat

By JOY KEILLOR
Opening Leads

Opening leads must be
divided into two parts —
leads against no-trump con-
tracts and leads against suit
contracts.

Defending against no-
tramp and suit contracts is so
different we might say they
are different games.

Leads Against suit Contracts

You may choose any one
of three basic reasons for your
opening Jead against a suit
contract,

1. attacking

2. waiting

3. interfering
1) Attacking leads

These are the leads that
immediately win or quickly
establish second and third-
round winners for your side.
Quick winners are ‘ace-king
combinations.

To establish winners you
“spend an honor” in an honor
combination sequence by
playing the top card of your
sequence. Also the lead of
your partner's bid suit, or the
lead of a singleton.

With A,K.xx; your lead
is the king first. The lead of

the king promises the ace or .

queen. Should you have A,K
alone and the ability to ruff
the third round, lead the ace
first. then the king telling
partner you have only two
cards in this suit (the high-low
echo).

In all other leadable hon-
or sequences, you lead the top
K,Q,Jx, Q,J,10x, J,10,9x,
K,Q,10x, Q,J,9x, J,10,8x.

When leading your part-
uer's bid suit, your proper
lead holding exactly two cards
is always the top one. Holding
three cards in the suit, lead
the top card in three cases:

A) When you have no
honors (top of nothing);

B) When you hold the
ace (the opponents will prob-
ably be short in this suit);

C) When you hold two

. honor cards in sequence.

In all other cases when
you hold three or more cards
in your partner's bid suit with
an honor, lead the smallest
card.

After having led top of
nothing from three cards, be
careful to follow next with the

* next highest card in that suit
so that your partner will know
that a lower card is missing.

With four or more cards
in partner's suit, play the
fourth down from the top

* card, There are two logical
exceptions — holding the ace
or touching honors.

Lead the top or it might
cost your side a trick if you
don't.

2) Waiting Leads

ere are many com-
binations where what you
Jead may cost you a trick or
set up tricks for the declarer.
These combinations should be
avoided, waiting for the lead
of these suits to be made by
someone else. These combin-
ations are:

1, Axxx — If you lead
this suit you may establish the
king for declarer. However,
the ace in a five or six-card
suit may be led.

2. Kxxx — Hf you lead
away from a king, you may set
up declarer’s A,Q to win two
tricks, when it should have

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been only one. Your king,
where it sits, could have been
a winner plus capturing the
queen from the declarer.

3, Short suits headed by
ace, king, queen or jack.

When you have these
combinations and no attack-
ing lead, try to get out of the
lead by:

A) Leading trumps (es
"pecially when you hold two or
three);

B) Leading the fourth
card down from a suit headed
by the queen, jack, 10 or a
lower card.

C) Leading top of noth-
ing. (Top of a two or three-
card worthless suit.)

23. Interfering Leads

Lead a trump when the
bidding has indicated that the
declarer will cross-ruff a hand

or will trump their losers in
the dummy. *
Examples:
Ww

Pass
Pass’
Pass

s Ww
1 Pass
3NT Pass
Pass Pass

Lead Your Long Suit

When you hold one
trump or four trumps, and
your partner has not bid, lead
your long side suit. With a
singleton trump your partner
may hold four.

The object of this lead is
to find declarer’s short suit
and force him to ruff, cutting
down his trump holding down
to your size.

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