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play good cards in defence
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A - when you have to play a card as third player you must, in general, play the highest. Be careful not to give the opponent a trick by doing so as in the following:
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Q 7 4
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K J 5 |
You must lay the Jack and not the King: if the Ace is in South, the Jack will make it fall. If it is in West, you will make the trick with the Jack, and dummy will never make its Queen.
So you finesse cards which you can see in dummy.
Another example:
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10 7 5
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2
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J 9 3 : the 9 is enough … |
B - It is possible to ask your partner to play or not play in a certain suit by discarding a carefully chosen card:
| - | discarding a high card constitutes a call for the discarded suit. |
| - | discarding a low card constitutes a refusal of the discarded suit. |
In principle a "high" card is a card of 7 or above, a low card is a card of 5 or lower.
Watch out however: your partner discards as well … whatever he can!