Board 10 (Dealer E) - 16 September 2008

NS	EW	Bid	Decl	Made	Vul	Score NS	Score EW	Pts	Max Pts
2 Kathy Bell & Jean Hopes	18 Wini Meikle & Nicky Davey	1N	W	7	Both		90	12 - 2	14
3 Geoff Smith & Fred Hotchen	11 Angie Baker & Carolyn Endicott	4S	E	9	Both	100		14 - 0	14
4 Pat Dixon & Jane Bolwell	13 Ann White & Clare Podger	2S	E	8	Both		110	9 - 5	14
6 Tricia Palmer & Andrew Marshall	17 Joan Thomson & Honor Harrison	2S	E	9	Both		140	6 - 8	14
7 Lorna Fewtrell & Mary Calle	10 Jill & Alan Hickson	2S	E	10	Both		170	3 - 11	14
8 Sheila Stubbings & Jeremy Baker	12 Jan Whitehouse & Margaret Blewett	4S	E	11	Both		650	0 - 14	14
9 Nigel Whiteman & John Wheeler	14 Janet & Roland Richardson	2S	E	8	Both		110	9 - 5	14
15 Andrew Bennett & Keith Bennett	5 Tanya Jerrard & Ray Crawford	2S	W	10	Both		170	3 - 11	14

Board 10 After not getting to game on Board 9, the problem here is to stop out of game. 4S here is not an unreasonable contract but is likely to go down at most tables. On a diamond lead declarer may succeed by playing clubs from his hand if the defenders do not switch to a trump. But he can't do this on a heart lead or he will lose a heart ruff. If he crosses to dummy with a trump to play a club, later on North will be able to win a club and play the SQ and another spade, leaving him with 3 club losers and 1 spade.				Q97 82 AJ86 AT95
		A85 J54 Q9754 43		Hand 10		JT6432 AKQ KJ82
				K T9763 KT32 Q76