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Frank Stewart column 8.18.25

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Posted Today, 05:57

In today’s column, Stewart suggests losing a club early to set up a discard on the boards 5th club. It looks to me like we start with two spade losers and a heart loser. If you lose a club at the start you can get rid of one of them later, but you’re still losing three tricks for down one. What am I missing?
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Posted Today, 06:39

Say west shifts to a heart - thus declarer loses 2 tricks at the beginning. He ruffs a club high, draws trump and gets 2 discards on the clubs (2 spade losers). Making 5♦ ;)
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Posted Today, 11:51

Thanks. You’re right of course. It feels a little magical, because west has four clubs so there’s only one extra in North. But now I get that one of the discards is on the Ace or King.
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