Run your long suit
This article explains a specific bridge card game strategy involving the 'long suit' tactic used by expert Martin Schaltz. It analyzes the decision-making process during a hand to illustrate how to maximize scoring potential.
Why it matters
It serves as an educational piece for enthusiasts of competitive card games, focusing on tactical analysis.
We don’t understand North’s twospade bid and it was not explained to us. It must have had a conventional meaning in this partnership but we don’t know what that was. South was Danish expert Martin Schaltz
Schaltz won the opening club lead, which looked like a singleton, with dummy’s ace and fell back on the age-old tactic of running his long suit. There was nothing better to do. This was the position with one diamond left to cash:
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