friday, february 21 , 2020. the washington post EZRE C5
BREWSTER ROCKIT: SPACE GUY! TIM RICKARD
CURTIS RAY BILLINGSLEY
SHERMAN’S LAGOON JIM TOOMEY
RED AND ROVER BRIAN BASSET
FRANK AND ERNEST TOM THAVES
RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE
LIO MARK TATULLI
HAGAR THE HORRIBLE CHRIS BROWNE
BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL
MIKE DU JOUR MIKE LESTER
AGNES TONY COCHRAN
WUMO MIKAEL WULFF & ANDERS MORGENTHALER
MARK TRAIL JAMES ALLEN
MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM MIKE PETERS
BALDO HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS
SALLY FORTH FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & JIM KEEFE
CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARLES SCHULZ
CLASSIC DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU PICKLES BRIAN CRANE
SUDOKU
NORTH
♠ A K 4
♥ 9 6 3
♦ A 9 8 6 5
♣ J 5
WEST
♠ 10 6 5 2
♥ K Q 2
♦ K 10 7 4
♣ 9 2
EAST
♠ 9 8 3
♥ J 10 8 4
♦ 3
♣ 10 8 7 4 3
SOUTH (D)
♠ Q J 7
♥ A 7 5
♦ Q J 2
♣ A K Q 6
The bidding:
A
t the Fall NABC, the
ACBL inaugurated the
Soloway Knockout Teams.
In a new format, two days
of short qualifying matches
left 32 teams to play full-day
matches.
The winners were Josef
BLASS (npc), Jacek Pszczola
(U.S.), Jacek Kalita and
Michal Nowosadzki (Poland),
and Bas Drijver and Sjoert
Brink (Switzerland). In the
final BLASS rallied past Nick
NICKELL-Ralph Katz, Robert
Levin-Steve Weinstein and
Jeff Meckstroth-Eric Rodwell,
123 to 102.
With four deals left, BLASS
led narrowly. In today’s deal,
Levin-Weinstein stopped
at 3NT as North-South.
Nowosadzki-Kalita got to
slam when both players took
bold views.
Rodwell, West, had to lead.
Against 6NT, an opening
leader often tries for safety;
an aggressive lead may blow
a crucial trick. Rodwell led
a spade, but South won in
dummy and led a diamond to
his queen. He took 12 tricks.
If West leads the king
of hearts, South fails, and
NICKELL wins 11 IMPs and
retakes the lead. They lost 11
instead, and the title went to
BLASS.
DAILY QUESTION
You hold:
♠ Q J 7 ♥ A 7 5
♦ Q J 2 ♣ A K Q 6
You open one club, your
partner responds one spade,
you jump to 2NT and he next
bids three hearts. What do
you say?
ANSWER: You should show
your support for partner’s
first suit — what he wants
to hear. Bid three spades. If
your values were a bit more
slammish — say you held K
J 7, A 7 5, A 3 2, A K 8 6 —
to jump to four spades to
emphasize the quality of your
support would be correct.
NEITHER SIDE VULNERABLE
SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST
1 ♣ Pass 1 ♦ Pass
2 NT Pass 4 NT Pass
6 NT All Pass
Opening lead — Choose it
BRIDGE
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