Correct contract bridge / by E.V. Shepard ; including the official Laws of contract bridge adopted by the Whist Club, New York, and by all the leading clubs in America.

88 CORRECT CONTRACT BRIDGE
hesitate to raise a responsive bid of only i-Spade,
made after Z had already declined to open the bidding, but Y cannot hesitate over jumping his partner's unnecessarily high response to 4-Spades.
As is ordinarily the case where hands count only
a fraction of a trick more than game value, Z must
play his cards very carefully to fulfill his contract.
The natural (play, offensively and defensively,
will go as follows: the opening lead will be A's v
K, which Z must win. When dummy is tabled Z
can tell that three cards of each minor suit in his
own hand and also in dummy will make the hand
hard to play for game; he knows that A must hold
at least one of the two missing black kings to give
him the two sure tricks needed to open the contracting; A may hold the 0 Q J X, for a part of his
values, but more probably he holds both black kings.
Z's proper return lead is his A Q; two leads of
which suit bring down all opposing trumps. The
declarer's next play must be to lead a losing heart,
both for the purpose of stripping his hands of that
suit and in hopes that A will oblige by making a return lead of either clubs or diamonds. Of course
A will do neither, he will lead back a heart and
force Z to ruff it.
Holding in the two hands of declarer and dummy
the particular combination of 0 A o1 4 and 0 K
9 2, Z knows that if he leads diamonds from either
hand a trick must be lost in that suit, regardless of the location of the Q J; he also knows that
unless both the Q J lie in one hand he will pick
up all tricks made in diamonds in case an ad