cr|264|cb|2255|cg|2255|cr|1255|cb|164|cg|1255|cr|364|cb|364|cg|3255|cr|4255|cb|464|cg|464|cr|5255|cb|5255|cg|5255|bg|5|bt||mn|Be Passive and you as a defender can finesse too!!!!|cs|3|at|

 




                  {compiled by Harold Schogger}|cs|5|at|





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                You are West on Lead|pn|South,West,North,East,South,West,North,East|md|3SK9HKQJ8642D95CKT,SJ72H53D7642CAQ92,SAT85HATDKJTCJ876,SQ643H97DAQ83C543|sk|w|sv|0|mb|1N|mb|P|mb|4H|mb|P|mb|P|mb|P|pg||
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                         You don't want to lead a trump and you don't want to lead away from
                          your Black suit Honour holdings|cs|3|at|
       
     {so you decide to lead 2nd highest from bad suit ie the @d7}|sk|w|pc|d6|pc|dj,dq,d5|pg||
nt|               partner wins first trick and plays back the Ace.

               You carefully play the @d7 to show that you have not led from a doubleton|pc|da,|pc|d9,d7,dt|pg||nt|       Now let us go over to the East seat|sk|e|cs|4|at|
  
      {we have just performed a finesse against dummy in Diamonds}|cs|2|at|     

    {can we now repay the compliment in Clubs ?}|pg||nt|      we look at dummy and know there is little future in another Diamond, 
      or in trumps or in Spades so there are only clubs left|cs|4|at|

      { so we switch to the @c4 and make a lead up to dummy's weakness and perform a possible 
       finesse against declarer, the closed hand}|pc|c4|pc|ck,ca,c6|pg||nt|
partner  is only too pleased to beat Declarer's King,  and is happy to cash the @cQ and set the contract by one|pc|cq|pc|c7,c5,ct|pg||nt|West gets off lead  with a Diamond and declarer claims|pc|d4|mc|9|pg||nt|now let us look at all four hands and see that if  :-

a) If West  would have led a club, declarer gets home
b) If East unthinkingly had led a third Diamond declarer gets home|sk||md|3SK9HKQJ8642D95CKT,SJ72H53D7642CAQ92,SAT85HATDKJTCJ876,SQ643H97DAQ83C543|mb|1N,p,4h,p,p,p|pg||bt||nt|

              So if in doubt  when on lead|cs|4 |at|

             { make a passive lead  either top of nothing or second from bad suit}|cs|3|at|


              {avoid leading from unsupported honours}|cs|1|at|



              {avoid leading from Tenace holdings}|cs|2|at|


             {Happy Leading}|