{"id":27,"date":"2009-01-19T11:06:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T19:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/2009\/01\/19\/newcomer-novice-3-leads-against-suit-contracts-it%e2%80%99s-a-ruff-life\/"},"modified":"2009-01-19T11:06:57","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T19:06:57","slug":"newcomer-novice-3-leads-against-suit-contracts-it%e2%80%99s-a-ruff-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Newcomer &amp; Novice #3: Leads against suit contracts &#8211; it\u2019s a ruff life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/Services\/eMagazine_Archive\/eMag_NN_3_0306.htm\">READ THE NEWSLETTER<\/a><\/p>\n<p> In our continuing saga of opening leads, this month our feature article shifts from leads against Notrump contracts to defending against opponents\u2019 suit contracts. Whether declarer or defender, playing a suit contract is often a \u201cruff\u201d life.<\/p>\n<p>Last month&#8217;s article on Laws discussed the opening lead out of turn, but things could be worse \u2013 what about when partner exposes a card before the opening lead? Rubber Bridge players, check out Law 23.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve discussed the Rule of 15 and Rule of 20, so let\u2019s have some fun with the Rule of Anticipation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>READ THE NEWSLETTER In our continuing saga of opening leads, this month our feature article shifts from leads against Notrump contracts to defending against opponents\u2019 suit contracts. Whether declarer or defender, playing a suit contract is often a \u201cruff\u201d life. Last month&#8217;s article on Laws discussed the opening lead out of turn, but things could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}