Bridge

THIS is the worst vulnerability for North-South to be caught in 1NT doubled: even when East-West have game the penalty is likely to be more than 400.

Here declarer can never reach dummy, and will be lucky to escape for 500. Luckily North knows that 2C will surely be a better spot than 1NT – at least his hand will make some tricks if clubs are trump. Some players simply remove to 2C, but North was ...