10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERRUFF»
Discover the use of
overruff in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
overruff and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Improve Your Bridge: Teach Yourself
David Bird. Sitting West, you lead the 8 against South's spade game. Your
partner wins with the K and cashes the A. When he continues with the 10,
declarer ruffs with the K. How should you defend? If you overruff with the A, the
contract will ...
(West will refuse to overruff, thereby promoting a second trump trick for himself.
Since there will still be a spade loser, that will be one down.) Declarer will
therefore discard his spade loser on the third round of diamonds. The contract
cannot ...
David Bird, Marc Smith, 2000
3
Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand
By drawing two rounds of trumps, leaving one in the dummy, you can reduce the
risk of an overruff: West leads the ♢J against your small slam. What plan will you
make? These are your possible losers: Losers: ♢ 1 9 0 0 0 +1 Total: 2 There is ...
Barbara Seagram, David Bird, 2009
The safe thing to do is to ruff with the queen, a card you can well spare since the
high trumps in your hand leave you in full control of the suit. The unsafe play is to
ruff low, running an unnecessary risk that East will be able to overruff by playing ...
5
Win At Bridge: Teach Yourself
Ruffing. high. to. avoid. an. overruff. Whenever possible ... the defenders would
then have scored a trump trick. The situation is different on this deal: When North
gives preference to hearts, South invites game by Ruffing high to avoid an
overruff.
6
Winning Contract Bridge
Now be careful to cash your diamond ace, for you are going to try for an overruff,
and so must take your side winners first. Next, lead your second heart to partner's
ace; he retums a third heart. Here Declarer cannot discard a loser, since you ...
7
Bridge: A Thinker's Game
There are three basic ways to promote a trump trick for the defence – an uppercut
, refusing a ruff and leading a suit which Declarer can ruff but third hand can
overruff. The following hands will illustrate each of these types of trump
promotions.
8
Wait-A-Minute Bridge, II
Whichever card East ruffs with, you overruff and take the last trick with the high
trump. “Wait a minute, please,” you beg, your head spinning. “I think I see how
this works, but what happens if East takes the QA on the first round of the suit and
...
9
Bridge Made Easy: Flash
overruff. Whenever possible you should ruff with a high trump, rather thanalow
trump. This willprevent thenext playerfrom overruffing, should he also be out of
the suit that you led. On the previous hand dummy's trumps were Q 4 3 and you
held ...
10
Becoming a Bridge Expert
East, U.S. expert John Solodar, discarded(l), refusing an easy overruff with the
jack. South then ruffed a club and ruffed another diamond. Solodar discarded
again (actually, he could have afforded to overruff this time) and South couldn't
keep ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERRUFF»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
overruff is used in the context of the following news items.
Bridge: July 18, 2015
South would have survived by ruffing low in dummy, but it looked to him as if East would overruff. So, right or wrong, South ruffed with an honor ... «Monterey County Herald, Jul 15»
Bridge: June 21, 2015
He ruffs a club and ruffs another spade. West can overruff, but South has the rest. West dealer. Neither side vulnerable. NORTH. ♤ A K 10 8 6 3. «San Jose Mercury News, Jun 15»
Bridge: June 15, 2015
OVERRUFF. "The Halo overruffed, returned a spade to dummy and led a fourth diamond: ruff, overruff. He next threw a club from dummy on his ... «San Jose Mercury News, Jun 15»
Bridge: May 16, 2015
If Millard keeps his jack of trumps, he can overruff dummy on the fourth round of diamonds. "Notice that I made a good play by putting up the ten ... «San Jose Mercury News, May 15»
Bridge: April 29, 2015
Instead of ruffing the third spade and risking an overruff, he must pitch a heart from dummy. If West shifts to a heart, South wins with the ace, ... «San Jose Mercury News, Apr 15»
Venice Cup Women's Qualifying Unfolds
Many players would have ruffed a low diamond in the dummy, but East would have defeated the contract by refusing to overruff. And when ... «New York Times, Apr 15»
At a Benefit Event, Pressure Takes a Seat at the Table
West takes that trick and leads a winning spade, allowing East to overruff the dummy (or, if declarer discards a heart from the dummy, East does ... «New York Times, Feb 15»
Semifinals in the Bridge Trial for the Bermuda Bowl
When that drew trumps, South had 10 tricks: three spades, five hearts, the diamond queen and the diamond overruff. But note that if the hearts ... «New York Times, May 14»
Selecting USA-1 Bridge Team for the Next Bermuda Bowl
So he understandably ruffed a couple of diamonds in the dummy and suffered an overruff to go down. At the first table in the Gordon-Diamond ... «New York Times, May 14»
Silodor Open Pairs
Inexperienced players would overruff with the spade king and be happy with down one, probably not realizing that they had blown a trick. «New York Times, Mar 13»
