Five clubs can be defeated by two tricks.
This contract can be defeated by two tricks but would probably have escaped for down one.
If West leads a club, five hearts can be defeated by two tricks; even four hearts is too high.
If West had doubled one no-trump, maybe East would have passed (bad), or run to two clubs (worse if doubled because it can be defeated by two tricks), or escaped to two hearts (best because it can be made).
After West, presumably because of the prevailing vulnerability, decided not to show his second suit (three spades can be defeated by two tricks), Judi Radin (North), a four-time world champion, responded with a three-diamond transfer bid and passed when her partner only completed the transfer.
However, each Noise exists in two "zones" simultaneously, and can only be defeated by two players fighting the Noise from separate zones; Players are therefore required to form a pact with another player to survive the Noise.
Both four diamonds and four hearts could have been defeated by four tricks, and surely South would have doubled either contract.
The Neue Zurcher Zeitung, a Zurich newspaper, reported that F.C. Thun players received a total of about $22,000 to ensure that their team was defeated by four goals.
In the United Arab Emirates last winter Masood, the studious left-hander who can make Alastair Cook look like Matthew Hayden, faced 17 balls from Anderson; he was defeated by four of them.
With a spade lead the contract could have been defeated by four tricks, for 400, or 1,100 if somebody had doubled.
