In this issue, in a tribute to Eddie Kantar, the subject is Counter-Intuitive Discards. For example, we lead fourth best against a notrump contract. If, however, that doesn’t work out to be a good idea on the deal, we still seem to intuitively want to keep cards in the suit led. Eddie’s article shows there are times when the best defense is to make the opening lead and then be brave enough to discard the suit we led. David Lindop writes about the popular maxim of leading toward a high card. 更多
