The Five Lines of Defense

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The Five Lines of Defense How to Plan -1 From the Opening Lead to the Setting Trick

Forcing Defense Active Defense Passive Defense Stopping Trump Tricks Creating Trump Tricks An Overview

The Forcing Defense Goal: Gaining trump control Lead: Partnership’s strongest suit(s) Effect: Declarer is forced to ruff in the long hand, shortening his trump holding

The Active Defense Goal: Take tricks before they disappear Lead: Aces, partnership’s strongest suit, from Kxx / Qxx Effect: The defense cashes or establishes winners before declarer can discard his losers. The Active Defense

Goal: Allow declarer to lead frozen suits and lose tricks Lead: From 3+ small cards, partner’s suit, doubletons, declarer’s solid suit(s) Effect: By not leading a suit declarer can finesse in, he has a chance to go wrong The Passive Defense

Leading Trumps Goal: Prevent declarer from ruffing in the short hand or starting a dummy reversal Lead: Trumps (regardless of holding) Effect: Declarer will end up a trump short in both hands. This either eliminates or reduces the number of ruffs that can be taken in the short hand

Ruffs, Elopements, and Uppercuts Goal: To create tricks when no other options exist Lead: Shortness, to partner’s shortness Effect: The plan is to eventually trump partner’s lead, which will either win or promote the defense’s trump honor(s)

Practice Passive (and sorta active) http://tinyurl.com/y67wubdu Trumps (7D) http://tinyurl.com/y6getyvw Active (3N) http://tinyurl.com/y5f7dmdm “Trump Promotion” http://tinyurl.com/yxt2utng

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