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DAILY BRIDGE CLUBFor release 12/11/08

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DAILY BRIDGE CLUBFor release 12/11/08

NIGHTGOWN PLAY

By FRANK STEWART

Tribune Media Services

I was sitting in the club lounge with my friend the English professor when a player stalked in from the noon duplicate and complained that her partner had been negligent as declarer.

"Love that word 'negligent,'" the prof mused. "Conjures up an image of a woman absentmindedly answering the doorbell in her nightgown."

"What happened?" I asked.

"We got to four hearts. East took the top clubs and led a third club (not best). West ruffed with the seven of trumps, and my partner overruffed with dummy's queen ... and led ...

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