West overruffs, and has to defend in this position: The clever lead of the spade eight stops the ruff.
The Spade commission was a clever variation of his past work and at the same time an effective platform for the company's products.
East did much better by shifting to the spade deuce, and South, in trouble, resorted to a clever deception.
Together, they have opened Partners & Spade, a gallery-cum-concept shop filled with cool, clever -- and, as with the gloves, occasionally oddball -- art objects, curated installations and vintage curios.
And both are skilled at spinning raw content into informational gold, through high editorial quality, speedy delivery and clever packaging of information.These, incidentally, are all attributes shared in spades by Bloomberg, which may yet also go on the block.
Thom Jerek of Allmusic said the song had "a clever, if somewhat cloying, tune, but it gets the feeling across in spades".
So six clubs always succeeds, but change the spade layout slightly, giving East a top spade for example, and Messer's clever thought is crucial.
Left to himself, South would surely have taken a normal spade finesse, failing by one trick, but luckily for him, West decided to be clever: at the third trick he led the club queen rather than the four.
