Active or Passive Defence?

[@andrewwebb9426]

Top notch! I love that lead of the K of diamonds in the penultimate hand. Charles Goren always said that if you can’t see the obvious route, you must play to where the cards MUST be if you are going to win.

[@thebannock]

Excellent as always

[@deepakmalhotra9929]

Great lesson . Thank you

[@benthomas3395]

Excellent

[@TonyStawBridgeClass]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@LillianAboudi]

Lessing on endplay i was watching And it shifted To snotter different lesson

[@williamthurl2607]

Obvious trump lead. Gives nothing away.

[@KyleButt]

On the last hand, it was important to watch the spades. When your partner leads the spade T and you ruff, they have JT8. With strength in either suit, they would have made a suit preference lead, but they led the middle card. If the have the diamond A, it would be important to return a low diamond to get another ruff, possibly for a trump promotion. A low heart is the passive defense, and it's correct in part, because partner hasn't signalled for an active one.

[@KyleButt]

If *they* have diamond A. Sorry for the typo.