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From: The Topeka Capital-Journal
Date: 20060421
Author:Phillip Alder

By Phillip Alder

My favorite author is P.G. Wodehouse. Here is one of his accurate and amusing observations: "At the age of 11 or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies."

The technique for making three no-trump on this deal isn't difficult. Usually, a beginner gets the idea very quickly. But there is a second point to the deal that might be less obvious. How would you plan the play after West leads the diamond jack?

South should open one no-trump, not worrying about his ...

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