I saw this on one of the Cayne vs Weed Team Match on BBO the other day:
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| West | North | East | South |
| p | p | 1♦ | 1♥ |
| 1♠ | 2♥ | 3♦ | p |
| 4♦ | p | p | p |
After losing 2 hearts, drawing trumps, playing the spade to the J and A, Garozzo won the spade continuation and ran trumps to reach:
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South still has a club guard after North discards a club, but Garozzo now just runs the J of club to score the tenth trick.
By Terence Reese and Julian Pottage.
50 problems, first easiest, last hardest, but the rest in random order. Most of the problems involve inferential reasoning from the lead and play, as well as some visualisation of end-positions.
As some of the problems are rather hard, I would say the book is targetted at Intermediate/Advanced players. A keen appreciation of squeezes would be good.
Most of the themes and hands I would expect to regularly appear at the table.
Not really much to mention.
7 teams left in the consols. 6 rounds of 16 boards each.
First match against the ladies team ended with a loss.
I sat out the match against NUS. As it was the round before dinner, and after dinner was our sitout, I went home for a break, returning only for the last 8 boards against Blue Moon. We lost to NUS as well as it turned out.
The half-round against Blue Moon ended 32-22 in our favour. 8 boards declared by NS, S taking 7 of them. (I was EW)
Lost to Mokymouse 41-19 in IMPs. I single-handedly threw away 20 IMPs in 2 boards through sheer loss of concentration.
Nothing much else to play for except for pride. We managed to get a win against LCY. I sat out the last round against X-deer, which we lost.
Still managed a 5th in the Consols. LCY did a great job all round to win.