The article last week on “doubles” seemed to resonate with a lot of you, so thanks for the many comments — I will do another one sometime discussing negative doubles, penalty doubles, support doubles and even SOS redoubles to help you sharpen your bidding.Also, thanks to the eagle-eyed Tony Saunders for spotting the non-deliberate error in the James Bond hand which should have been: Graphic 1Now the Diamond suit sets up with just two ruffs, and no overruff from Drax, and Bond triumphantly claims his ridiculous contract of seven Clubs, doubled and redoubled. It was always tough to get one past Tony at the table and clearly nothing has changed!The hand is a lot of fun but I always think Ian Fleming could have constructed something a bit more subtle and credible — still, loved the book and the movie and you cannot argue with success.Today’s hand goes back to a few of familiar themes — look beyond the obvious, exhaust all available plays before the “last resort” play, and use your trumps properly: Graphic 2The auction was the same at both tables in a team game — South opened a spade, North bid a forcing no-trump, and when South rebid Spades North bid the Spade game. Why did North not bid four S immediately? Many good reasons — if South rebids two Hearts, four Hearts with a 4-4 fit will nearly always play better than four Spades, and if South bids 2NT showing a good 5-3-3-2 hand a final contract of 3NT might even be better, though at teams I would go for the safe four Spades.Anyway, both tables played four Spades — only one made it! What would be your line of play? The lead at both tables was the Jack of Clubs. At the first table, declarer won with the Ace of Clubs and played a low trump from the table. East saw that he did not want to be on lead on the second round of trumps, so he played the Ace and another trump. Declarer took this in hand and ran the Queen of Hearts to East’s King. After trumping the Club return, declarer played a Heart to the 10. East won with the Jack of Hearts for the third defensive trick and as declarer still had to lose a Diamond, he was down one. Unlucky that East had both Heart honours but, as we will see, you make your own luck.At the second table declarer was a bit more patient and hardworking — she also took the Ace of Clubs at trick one and, looking past the double finesse in Hearts, ruffed a Club at trick two. Next she played the 3 of trumps to dummy’s 7. East won with the ace and exited with the 4 of Spades. Declarer won with the Jack, then ruffed a second Club before playing the King of Diamonds from hand. West won with his Ace of Diamonds and returned the Jack of Diamonds. Declarer won with the Queen of Diamonds, coming to this position: Graphic 3Declarer now ruffed that last Diamond and played a low Heart to the 10, and the defence is toast — East either has to return a Heart into the 10, Ace, or provide a ruff and discard, thanks to declarer’s great preparation in eliminating Clubs and Diamonds before playing on the Heart suit. Really good play!ResultsFriday 11 September1, Aida Bostelmann-George Correia2, John Hodge-Sue Hodge3, Patricia Colmet-Heather WoolfTuesday 15 September<1491, Marion Silver-Duncan Silver2, Gina Graham-Felicity Lunn3, Sarah Bowers-Stuart ClareWednesday 16 SeptemberNS1, William Pollett- Linda Pollett2, Richard Gray- Wendy Gray3, Sheena Rayner- Magda FaragEW1, Greta Marshall- Lynanne Bolton2= Gertrude Barker- Jane Smith2= Molly Taussig- Tony SaundersFriday 18 September1, Joyce Pearson-Lorna Anderson2= Aida Bostelmann-George Correia2=Gertrude Barker-Martha Ferguson2=Marion Silver-Duncan Silver