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by Richard Pavlicek

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Miscellany
Broken Scoring Fix	Chess Follows Suit	Believe It or Not
Notrump Technique
Counting To Avoid a Guess Combine Your Chances Bold Bidding Wins	Man’s Best Friend Finesse Missed Wrong Suit First	Timing and Control Self-Destructing Misfit Troubles
Timing at Suits
Planning the Play Guessing a Queen Moysian Fit Matchpoint Tricks A Matter of Time	Trump Handling Major Two-Suiter Feasible Foresight? Fateful Discard Foiled Again	A Chess Game Let Them Eat Clubs! Delicate Timing Equal Opportunity
Trump Control
Which Way To Finesse Where’s the Queen? Retaining Control Moysian Mission	Transfer Trauma Delicate Decisions To Finesse or Not? World’s Worst Suit	Tenuous Trump Tale Hard Knocks in The Big Easy
Ruffing Technique
Dummy Reversal Ruff Day At Work Elope! Don’t Finesse Those Pesky Queens U.S. Wins Big!	Key Defense Missed Crossruff Elopement Wound & Rewound Bridge on Ice? Ruff Day at Work	Close but No Cigar Never Give Up! When in Doubt… Moysian Slam Silver and Gold
Suit Establishment
Precision Defense Sparkles Slam Bidding Gadgetry	Suit Establishment Two 4-1 Breaks	22-Point Slam Delicate Decisions
Squeeze Plays
Apparent Danger The Metz Grand Compound Squeeze Ruffout Squeeze Amazing Grace Greed Costs Slam Holiday Flashback	Pushed Around The Step-Winkle The Poison Queen Subterfuge The Florida Squeeze No Strings Attached U.S. Tops Norway	Transfer Trauma Leading a Lady Olympic Preview Canada Wins the Gold Cash and Carry Bizarre Triple Squeeze The ‘46 Deuce Coup
Throw-in Plays
Bridge For All Ages Waugh of Arabia? Ten Tricks On Ice No Squeeze	Little Known Facts Eight Never, Nine Ever Wrong Ending Elusive 12th Trick	Wasted Deuce Two Missed Boats What If in History? Hammerin' Harmon
Deceptive Play
Schneidered Beautiful Bidding?	Back To the Future Reverse Geometry	Low from Dummy
Defense
Florida Belles Are Ringers Slam Bid Wins Match Amazing Ending Can’t Get There! An Extra Chance Easy Does It Hold That Ruff!	Squeeze Defense Jack Be Nimble Grand Adventure Play or Defend? Foresight on Defense Third Hand Low Two-Bid or Zoo-Bid?	Dramatic Finish Heart of the Matter Minor Blackout Holiday Gifts The Jettison Defense Passive Suit Preference