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  • Declarer needed to make something of the clubs. Times, Sunday Times
  • And although Charlie hadn't made it clear when he announced the convention, it should have been obvious to me that his doubles of overcalls couldn't possibly be for takeout, since that would most likely lead to his wife's becoming declarer.
  • At trick ten, declarer led his singleton club and finessed dummy 's ten. Times, Sunday Times
  • Declarer won in hand and cashed the remaining top hearts discarding clubs from dummy. Times, Sunday Times
  • There followed a virtuoso display of declarer play. Times, Sunday Times
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  • You have twin goals: to help partner and deceive declarer. Times, Sunday Times
  • Had both opponents followed, declarer could have ruffed a fourth round to set up a long card. Times, Sunday Times
  • After the declarer and defenders are determined, each has the opportunity to discard and receive new cards.
  • Declarer has no entry back to dummy and is forced to concede 2 Heart tricks.
  • East would need both the eight and nine, and insert one of them, to give declarer a problem. Times, Sunday Times
  • Declarer at the other table made a small but costly slip. Times, Sunday Times
  • When Iceland held the East-West cards they bid to five diamonds where declarer collected 11 tricks. Hope for the ordinary player
  • Declarer won dummy's king and sought to ruff hearts in dummy. Times, Sunday Times
  • You have twin goals: to help partner and deceive declarer. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Defender on the Declarer's left leads the card to the first trick, after which the cards in the dummy are exposed and sorted by suit.
  • A rather bemused declarer won trick two with the eight of clubs! Times, Sunday Times
  • Now a heart ruff set up the suit and declarer had twelve tricks for a huge board. Times, Sunday Times
  • The other declarer did better, delaying the discard from hand on the second heart. Times, Sunday Times
  • If you have a singleton or void suit, you take a big risk that the declarer will find lots of cards of this suit in the talon when he exchanges, and your partner's stop in the suit might not be enough to beat the contract.
  • North duly obliged and was declarer in four hearts. Times, Sunday Times
  • In this way, the partner that plays second or third to the trick will know that the declarer is void in this suit.
  • The fork relied upon declarer having a club winner to discard a heart from dummy if you ducked the heart. Times, Sunday Times
  • East ruffed with 9, but declarer could overruff with 10. Times, Sunday Times
  • I won't go into the many variations, but declarer can always prevail in the ending.
  • Across is the ending as declarer led dummy's winning ten of hearts. Times, Sunday Times
  • J'ai entendu un des hommes de loi les plus éclairés, et dont à tout autre égard les opinions sont libérales, soutenir que "ce serait attenter à _la propriété_ que de déclarer libres même les enfans à naître des femmes esclaves, parce que, disait-il, les maîtres qui out acheté ou hérité des esclaves, les possèdent dans la confiance que leur _issue_ sera leur propriété utile et disponible. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916
  • Welcome the fresh graduate who is the Customs Declarer Certificate holder.
  • You beat the declarer's coup en passant by means of an 'uppercut', a device belonging to the same family of card plays.
  • Notice that a winning declarer must score at least as many points as her bid.
  • There is a good case for declarer to discard? Times, Sunday Times
  • Double it, and declarer has the clue he needs to make the game, redoubled to boot. Times, Sunday Times
  • East had discarded a seemingly innocuous heart, but this had left him with just the nine and declarer had capitalised. Times, Sunday Times
  • Declarer needed three of the last five tricks. Times, Sunday Times
  • As declarer try to make nine tricks. Times, Sunday Times
  • Declarer will surely now play another heart but dummy is squeezed. Times, Sunday Times
  • The other declarer did better, delaying the discard from hand on the second heart. Times, Sunday Times
  • Q. Disaster - declarer runs it to? Times, Sunday Times
  • It was all over -even though declarer made the (normal) misguess in hearts. Times, Sunday Times
  • Declarer won the ace and spotted an elegant line that would succeed on normal splits, provided East held a heart honour. Times, Sunday Times
  • Declarer will surely now play another heart but dummy is squeezed. Times, Sunday Times
  • The only card that will defeat the contract is the ace of clubs, which sets up two club winners in declarer's hand and appears to give back two tricks in clubs for the one you gain in hearts. A funny game
  • After a contract on the bid is made, the declarer decides whether to set the rank for that hand high or low.
  • Declarer won in hand and saw no alternative for his 13th trick to the heart finesse. Times, Sunday Times
  • May 2008, 17: 24 sheitan, lol ils ont eu le courage de déclarer qu'il s'agissait d'un 'horror'. où va le monde? the national macho society, 2. Videos.antville.org
  • Next, if declarer has taken fewer than 6 tricks he pays a penalty of 20 units to the pot.
  • The converse is true: you must hide information that will be more useful to declarer than partner. Times, Sunday Times
  • Declarer won in hand and saw no alternative for his 13th trick to the heart finesse. Times, Sunday Times
  • I give the declarer a chance to lead trumps into my tenaces.
  • With 12 top tricks, declarer hoped to set up a long club to avoid having to take the heart finesse. Times, Sunday Times
  • The fork relied upon declarer having a club winner to discard a heart from dummy if you ducked the heart. Times, Sunday Times
  • If South discarded on the diamond, preserving his trumps till the bitter end, declarer would throw the club from his hand and lead anything from dummy, claiming the last three tricks with the ♥Q, ♥J and ♥9. How to lose a sure trump trick
  • With 12 top tricks, declarer hoped to set up a long club to avoid having to take the heart finesse. Times, Sunday Times
  • Having bid ulti, the declarer is obliged to keep the 7 of trumps as long as is legally possible, subject to the rules of following suit and trumping when void.
  • With this holding the King is manifestly most advantageous, as if the Declarer hold Ace, Knave, it will either force the Ace and hold the tenace over the Knave or win the trick. Auction of To-day
  • Often three rubbers of 7 deals are played, so that each player has a turn at being the first declarer.
  • A heart discard was clearly fatal, giving declarer two more tricks. Times, Sunday Times
  • Perhaps you can guess what declarer led from dummy at trick three. Times, Sunday Times
  • West could only discard, so declarer ruffed in dummy then led the king of clubs. Times, Sunday Times
  • East had to keep all three clubs, declarer could simply give up a club to set up a long card. Times, Sunday Times
  • Our featured declarer will not have been overjoyed to see his dummy - seemingly completely useless. Times, Sunday Times
  • Declarer could now score the last three tricks with dummy's? Times, Sunday Times
  • Good defence is all about conveying information that will be more useful to partner than declarer. Times, Sunday Times
  • This prematurely squeezes dummy, and only by discarding a high heart can declarer still survive. Times, Sunday Times
  • If you have a singleton or void suit, you take a big risk that the declarer will find lots of cards of this suit in the talon when he exchanges, and your partner's stop in the suit might not be enough to beat the contract.
  • The declarer and his partner do not score any points if they do not take at least the number of tricks that the declarer bid.
  • This was immediately doubled by the original declarer of no-trumps. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29
  • East won his singleton ace and led a third heart, declarer ruffing. Times, Sunday Times
  • Declarer has no convenient discard from hand. Times, Sunday Times
  • Doubles of declarer are ringed, to make it easier to ensure that each player makes her compulsory two doubles of declarer.
  • The player who prevailed in the auction becomes declarer, and the final bid determines the contract.
  • Very classy declarer play at both tables, rather classier than the bidding. Times, Sunday Times
  • At trick two declarer crossed to the ace of clubs and then ruffed a club. Times, Sunday Times
  • In fact, declarer would have made an overtrick. Times, Sunday Times
  • The converse is true: you must hide information that will be more useful to declarer than partner. Times, Sunday Times
  • Winning in dummy, declarer could now have made the contract by finessing the ♣10, but he tried to cash another spade instead. Hope for the ordinary player
  • West was squeezed, and declarer had an overtrick. Times, Sunday Times
  • Declarer has to guess whether this is a doubleton or a singleton. Times, Sunday Times
  • This destroys the endplay and declarer must now go one down. Times, Sunday Times
  • A popular line revolved around setting up declarer's hearts and trying to make his hand good. Times, Sunday Times
  • You have twin goals: to help partner and deceive declarer. Times, Sunday Times
  • The converse is true: you must hide information that will be more useful to declarer than partner. Times, Sunday Times
  • As with all contracts, an unsuccessful declarer loses twice the value of the game.
  • If declarer believed that Sementa had chosen the unorthodox lead of a low card from a doubleton, he could now have made the contract easily because he had a tenace in diamonds – the eight would force West to cover with the nine, and declarer's six would beat West's three. Two unorthodox leads
  • Declarer won the ace and spotted an elegant line that would succeed on normal splits, provided East held a heart honour. Times, Sunday Times
  • Had both opponents followed, declarer could have ruffed a fourth round to set up a long card. Times, Sunday Times
  • Declarer now plays ace and a low club from dummy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Perhaps our young declarer was not fully cognisant of the subtleties of the squeeze-ending and was simply cashing winners. Times, Sunday Times
  • In each hand one partnership are declarers and the other are the defenders.
  • Declarer has no convenient discard from hand. Times, Sunday Times
  • Declarer now plays ace and a low club from dummy. Times, Sunday Times
  • If the declarer succeeds in taking no tricks, the defenders are not penalized.
  • With 12 top tricks, declarer hoped to set up a long club to avoid having to take the heart finesse. Times, Sunday Times
  • Cy was exultant after watching Ed, my club's best player, hornswoggle a good declarer out of a vulnerable game. Bridge
  • Declarer won dummy's ace and scored the last trick with a promoted club. Times, Sunday Times
  • One way of cooperating with declarer is by returning the suits which she leads.
  • If either opponent has at least as many points as the declarer, the opponents win.
  • There is next an auction to decide who will be the declarer.
  • This is often very useful in cases when the declarer plays with short trumps and tries to make the contract with help of aces and kings in side suits.
  • Q, declarer crosses to (? Times, Sunday Times
  • Declarer played with the odds to take the club finesse but missed an extra chance. Times, Sunday Times
  • East had to ruff or declarer would discard his last heart. Times, Sunday Times
  • East had to ruff or declarer would discard his last heart. Times, Sunday Times
  • East would need both the eight and nine, and insert one of them, to give declarer a problem. Times, Sunday Times
  • The opponents should try to lead suits in which the declarer is void.
  • The first player of this team who mentioned the denomination (suit or no trumps) of the contract becomes the declarer.
  • J. East could only discard, so declarer crossed to? Times, Sunday Times
  • Watch their declarer play the spots off the cards to make this highly optimistic grand slam from the quarterfinals. Times, Sunday Times
  • So declarer had to hold the ace of hearts. Times, Sunday Times
  • Declarer won dummy's ace and scored the last trick with a promoted club. Times, Sunday Times
  • When West showed out, discarding a spade, declarer set about a crossruff - one trick too late. STLtoday.com Top News Headlines
  • East won the ace, felling declarer's king and switched to clubs. Times, Sunday Times
  • Convinced by all of this that West still had the ♣Q, East switched to his spade in an effort to cut declarer off from dummy's second spade winner before East's trump could be drawn. Hope for the ordinary player
  • This year, Rien à Déclarer Nothing to Declare, directed by the humourist Dany Boon, has sold almost 8m tickets. Cyrille Falisse on film in France
  • This player then becomes the declarer; the two opponents are the defenders.
  • Declarer won dummy's ace and scored the last trick with a promoted club. Times, Sunday Times
  • So declarer addressed himself to the question of which singleton honour West was more likely to hold. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is an announcement that the declarer will win the last trick with the lowest trump - the 7 in a suit contract or the jack of diamonds in a Grand.
  • He expected declarer to repeat the finesse and a cunning plan was beginning to form. Times, Sunday Times
  • At trick ten, declarer led his singleton club and finessed dummy 's ten. Times, Sunday Times
  • So declarer runs the nine of clubs, then crosses to his ace of hearts to cash his six. Times, Sunday Times
  • Across is the ending as declarer led dummy's winning ten of hearts. Times, Sunday Times
  • On our featured 3NT deal, declarer had to lose the lead no fewer than three times. Times, Sunday Times
  • The return of either red suit would see declarer ruff in one hand and discard the club loser from the other. Times, Sunday Times
  • With 12 top tricks, declarer hoped to set up a long club to avoid having to take the heart finesse. Times, Sunday Times
  • a declarer of his intentions
  • At the beginning of each hand there is an auction to decide who will be declarer.
  • The same penalty is payable by the declarer if the wrong number of cards were discarded.
  • If the declarer continues the cross-ruff the defence cannot prevent ten tricks.
  • Declarer now played ace and another heart. Times, Sunday Times
  • West ruffed but declarer could ruff her club return and score the last four tricks with? Times, Sunday Times
  • No endplay could now operate and declarer went down one. Times, Sunday Times
  • Declarer won in hand and cashed the remaining top hearts discarding clubs from dummy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Perhaps you can guess what declarer led from dummy at trick three. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, some play that the declarer receives nothing extra for overtricks and some play that the declarer who takes 9 or more tricks wins nothing at all.
  • East would need both the eight and nine, and insert one of them, to give declarer a problem. Times, Sunday Times
  • East could ruff, but declarer could overruff and cash a diamond. Times, Sunday Times
  • Declarer now plays ace and a low club from dummy. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is a good case for declarer to discard? Times, Sunday Times
  • You make the well-reasoned aggressive opening lead of a low diamond, partner plays the ace and declarer ruffs. Times, Sunday Times
  • Today's declarer was not fully cognisant of this inference and so failed in his game. Times, Sunday Times
  • Next, if declarer has taken fewer than 6 tricks he pays a penalty of 20 units to the pot.
  • If the Professor switches to a club at once, without cashing his last spade, declarer wins in dummy and throws West in with the last heart, compelling him to lead another club into the tenace on the table. VICTOR MOLLO’S BRIDGE CLUB
  • Say declarer leads ace and another heart (rather than a low heart). Times, Sunday Times
  • So there is no point establishing his suit as declarer will duck again and knock out your ace of clubs. Times, Sunday Times
  • The worst disaster for the opponents is to lead the ace of a suit of which the declarer holds the king.
  • The actual declarer took the ace of spades, ruffed a spade and led a diamond. Bridge
  • The declarer then draws an equal number of cards from the top of the heap, including the face-up trump card if the contract is vuelta.
  • The declarer bids 5, announces four nines, and takes 93 card points without taking the stock.
  • East won the ace, felling declarer's king and switched to clubs. Times, Sunday Times
  • Okay, now switch roles and pretend you are the declarer.
  • Since declarer's side in a ‘no seven’ game can choose when to bring the game to a close, they can certainly arrange to lose; thus there will be no underbidding for the right to be declarer!
  • West ruffed away declarer's ace and led his last heart. Times, Sunday Times
  • Say declarer leads ace and another heart (rather than a low heart). Times, Sunday Times
  • Declarer was now able to ruff two hearts in dummy and merely concede the fourth heart. Times, Sunday Times
  • This proved precisely the case when at trick six, declarer led a low club to his ace and saw East discard. Times, Sunday Times
  • Good defence is all about conveying information that will be more useful to partner than declarer. Times, Sunday Times
  • West ruffed but declarer could ruff her club return and score the last four tricks with? Times, Sunday Times
  • If he led the fourth highest six of hearts, declarer could run it to his hand and win the trick cheaply. Times, Sunday Times
  • Theoretically, declarer still had no chance of succeeding, but watch. Times, Sunday Times
  • Our featured declarer will not have been overjoyed to see his dummy - seemingly completely useless. Times, Sunday Times
  • On the other hand, if a declarer makes no tricks, it is a match against her.
  • Build up an image of declarer's hand with inferences from the bidding and from the way declarer and partner play.
  • At trick two, declarer crosses (? Times, Sunday Times
  • He expected declarer to repeat the finesse and a cunning plan was beginning to form. Times, Sunday Times
  • The same penalty is payable by the declarer if the wrong number of cards were discarded.
  • West could only discard, so declarer ruffed in dummy then led the king of clubs. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even though declarer can overruff, he has lost his third diamond winner. Times, Sunday Times
  • The declarer must hold at least 4 doubles to announce Plunge.
  • Declarer won the ace and spotted an elegant line that would succeed on normal splits, provided East held a heart honour. Times, Sunday Times
  • After cashing his two top Hearts, the declarer peacefully cross-ruffed his way to 12 tricks, conceding a Diamond at the end.
  • Double it, and declarer has the clue he needs to make the game, redoubled to boot. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was clear declarer was holding up from? Times, Sunday Times
  • The cards will be dealt by the player on declarer's left, and cut by the player opposite to declarer.
  • That leaves declarer with just one heart. Times, Sunday Times
  • If there is a declarer, however, the two defenders should form a temporary partnership to defeat the declarer.
  • The converse is true: you must hide information that will be more useful to declarer than partner. Times, Sunday Times
  • Declarer won, conceded a club and soon claimed the remainder of the tricks. Times, Sunday Times
  • You have twin goals: to help partner and deceive declarer. Times, Sunday Times
  • He interfered, it is true, to annul the election of Philip of Suabia and to confirm Otto in the imperial dignity, but he was at pains to point out that his legate was only a denunciator, or declarer of worthiness, not a cognitor or elector. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
  • Good defence is all about conveying information that will be more useful to partner than declarer. Times, Sunday Times
  • There followed a virtuoso display of declarer play. Times, Sunday Times
  • With 12 top tricks, declarer hoped to set up a long club to avoid having to take the heart finesse. Times, Sunday Times
  • Declarer played with the odds to take the club finesse but missed an extra chance. Times, Sunday Times
  • By the simple expedient of removing dummy's ace of clubs, declarer avoided any such quandary. Times, Sunday Times
  • She could discard one spade, but if she discarded another declarer would make his last two spades; if North threw the winning heart, ace and a spade would endplay her to lead away from the ace of clubs; finally, a club discard would allow declarer to duck a club to the now-bare ace. Young, void and bidding
  • DEALER, SECOND HAND, etc., this will be considered more thoroughly, and it is referred to at this time only for the purpose of pointing out that informatory bids from short suits containing high cards are no longer included in the vocabulary of the Declarer. Auction of To-day
  • Declarer won dummy's king and sought to ruff hearts in dummy. Times, Sunday Times
  • You have twin goals: to help partner and deceive declarer. Times, Sunday Times
  • Declarer was only really culpable for the fourth undertrick. Times, Sunday Times
  • The defender must try to count up declarer's tricks. Times, Sunday Times
  • He expected declarer to repeat the finesse and a cunning plan was beginning to form. Times, Sunday Times
  • You win the king and know to switch to hearts, declarer's singleton suit. Times, Sunday Times
  • Note that normal play and defence would have seen declarer making an overtrick. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, some play that the declarer who takes 8 or more tricks wins nothing at all.
  • As declarer try to make nine tricks. Times, Sunday Times
  • Declarer should recognise that this is a desperation double, and redouble it (if it really came from a good hand, the doubler would have doubled the other players as well).
  • That leaves declarer with just one heart. Times, Sunday Times
  • _b_ To call the declarer's attention to the fact that too many or too few cards have been played to a trick; Auction of To-day
  • Watch their declarer play the spots off the cards to make this highly optimistic grand slam from the quarterfinals. Times, Sunday Times
  • That was all the help declarer needed. Times, Sunday Times

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