Bridge deals test defense against five spades or six diamonds
Phillip Alder analyzes a wild bridge deal with a 5 spades by South and 6 diamonds doubled by East. He explains optimal defensive lines, including leading diamonds, signaling for a club shift, and when to sacrifice, noting the double fit favors declaring. The piece ends with a puzzle about filling a grid with zeros and ones under strict adjacency rules.
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