Risky double
The moral of this week’s deal is: don’t make a tight double unless you are going to defend accurately. On today’s deal from the European Open Championships, East fell from grace.
West led out Ace-King-then-Queen of Clubs, East overruffing dummy’s nine of Trumps with the ten. East cashed the Ace of Spades (fine) and (fall from grace) tried to cash the King.
Declarer ruffed the second Spade and began playing out all his trumps. On the
