The play in a suit contract

	At the beginning of play, as soon as dummy goes down, PLAN THE PLAY.

	In no trump contracts we COUNT THE CERTAIN WINNERS. Suit contracts
	are different in that we COUNT OUR LOSERS.
	
	The presence of a trump suit brings many new elements into play. Always 
	the first question is: "Shall I draw trumps?"

	Taking ruffs in the dummy

						6
						K74
						J8532
						A653
					QT852	KJ93
					J82		T
					Q964		KT7
					T		QJ984
						A74
						AQ9653
						A
						K72

	South is declarer in six hearts. West leads his singleton club.
	Providing the trump suit does not break badly (4-0), he has two spades and
	one club loser - two tricks short of making his contract.
	The natural way to develop the extra tricks is to fuff two spades in dummy. 
	He therefore postpones drawing trumps. The play goes:-

	Trick 1: Retaining entries to his own hand, South wins the lead with dummy`s Ace.
	Trick 2: Spade to the Ace.
	Trick 3: Spade ruff.
	Trick 4: Cashes the King of hearts and all follow.
	Trick 5: Crosses to the Ace of diamonds.
	Trick 6: Spade ruff with dummy`s last trump.
	
	Declarer then has to decide how to get back to his hand to draw the
	outstanding trumps. A diamond ruff is best as the lead could have been a
	singleton. He eventually concedes his only losing trick, a club.

	
	Establishing a suit by ruffing

						KQ6
						53
						QT63
						J753
					742		85
					QT86		92
					K75		AJ94
					AK9		QT862
						AJT93
						AKJ74
						82
						4

	South plays in four spades. West leads the Ace of clubs.

	One of the most important functions of the trump suit is to enable declarer to
	establish a broken suit without losing tricks in the process.

	In this contract, south can only make his contract by avoiding any heart losers
	(we assume he cannot avoid losing his two diamonds and a club). In order to 
	achieve this he postpones drawing trumps and establishes his heart suit by
	ruffing it in dummy.

	Trick 1: Declarer loses the club lead.
	Trick 2: Ruffs club continuation.
	Trick 3: & 4: Cashes Ace and King of hearts.
	Trick 5: Ruffs a heart with the Queen of spades, not the lowly six.
	Trick 6: Noticing that the hearts didn`t break kindly, returns to hand via a trump.
	Trick 7: Ruffs a heart with dummy`s remaing trump, the King.
	Trick 8: Returns to hand with a club ruff, draws trumps (hoping they break) and
		  makes his tenth trick with his fifth heart.

	NB. A trump lead defeats the contract.

	On the next deal, declarer uses his own trumps to establish a long suit in dummy.

						KJ5
						A4
						AJ7632
						63
					86		94
					QJT6		K952
					Q4		KT85
					KJ752		T94
						AQT732
						873
						9
						AQ8

	South is in six spades. West leads the Queen of hearts.

	Two possible lines of play: Hope the club finesse wins and ruff the losing club and
	heart in dummy before drawing trumps, or establish dummy`s long diamond suit
	using your own trumps.

	The second option offers the better chance.

	Trick 1: Win the lead in dummy.
	Trick 2: Cash the Ace of diamonds.
	Trick 3: Ruff a low diamond.
	Trick 4: Spade to the Jack.
	Trick 5: Ruff a diamond, high, with the Queen.
	Trick 6: Spade to the King, pleased to see the trumps break 2-2.

	The position is now:
						5
						4
						J76
						63
					void		void
					JT6		K92
					void		K
					KJ75		T94
						A3
						87
						void
						AQ8

	The lead is in dummy. South ruffs a diamond and leads a heart. Even if east
	wins and leads a club, south wins with the Ace, ruffs a heart and discards his 
	two losing clubs on the long, now good, diamonds.

	Crossruffing

	On some hands declarer does not make a frontal attack on the trump suit at
	any time. Instead, he takes as many ruffs as he can in each hand, aiming to
	make his trumps seperately: crossruffing.

						x
						KJT8
						Axxx
						xxxx
					
						Axxx
						AQ97
						x
						Axxx

	South is in a contract of four hearts. West leads the Queen of clubs.

	Ten tricks are made by ruffing three spades in dummy and three diamonds in
	hand, one trump trick and three Aces. Trumps are not touched at all.

	NB. It is vitally important that when embarking on a cross ruff that the
	        outside winners cashed first.

	Exercises

	Bd.1 
			53				Contract: 3D by south. Lead: 7D.
			76
			K43				Declarer wins the lead in hand and tries to 			AQ5432			establish dummy`s club suit. He next
		AQT76	KJ98			finesses the Queen of clubs, then Ace of
		KT98		Q54			clubs, club ruff high, draw the remaining 
		76		T98			with the Ace then King to make the 
		K8		JT7			contract with overtricks.
			42
			AJ32	
			AQJ52
			96

	Bd. 2
			AK98				Contract: 4S by south. Lead: AH.
			J7642
			A43				South ruffs the King of hearts continuation
			4				and contemplates a cross ruff. But
		T543		2			first he must cash his outside suit winners.
		AK3		QT85			Do not draw trumps!
		Q6		JT982
		KT83		QJ2			Eleven tricks made.
			QJ76	
			9
			K75
			A9765

	Bd. 3		
			8				Contract: 4H by south. Lead: AD.
			JT3
			65432				South ruffs the Jack of diamonds after
			A742				the King of diamonds continuation,
		K96		QT5432		cashes the Ace of spades, ruffs a 
		874		52			spade, King of clubs, ruffs a spade,
		AKJT9	8			draws trumps, Ace of of clubs for ten 
		Q9		JT85			tricks.
			AJ7
			AKQ96			Declarer does not draw trumps until
			Q7				he has ruffed his losing spades.
			K63

	Bd. 4
			A53				Contract: 4S by south. Lead: QD.
			K52				
			A42				Declarer can see four losers: two
			AT97				diamonds and two hearts. Cash one top
		86		742			trump (King of spades), Ace and King
		J4		QT87			of hearts, concede a heart and ruff the
		QJT8		K96			heart with thwe Ace of trumps.
		KJ863		Q54
			KQJT9			Declarer can afford to draw one round
			A963				of trumps.
			753
			2