Sweet Sixteen
By Mark Horton In 46th World Bridge Teams Championships On 2nd September 2023
Norway was enjoying an excellent fourth session when along came:
South started with two rounds of diamonds and declarer discarded dummy’s 
2 as North won and fatally switched to the 
8. Declarer took South’s jack and played a spade back to the king and ace. He could win the spade return and play a heart towards the 
1095 easily emerging with the tricks he needed and +470.
Here South went down what proved to be a much more successful route by rebidding his clubs. NS sometimes employ 4 as a transfer to RKCB, but North’s response to 4NT looks more like pick a slam. Whatever, the excellent slam was reached and when West started with two rounds of hearts declarer ruffed and claimed – a very sweet 16 IMPs.
