Single-suit king play in 1945 Spingold final notes
Oswald and James Jacoby discuss a hand from the 1945 Spingold final where two teams reached spades on identical bidding and faced a decisive trick. The winning declarer used a king of trumps to ruff West's queen and make a slam, while the other bid failed. The piece argues the king play is the correct line when West holds a single missing honor, with variations for extra dummy entries and different singleton cards.
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