And after he chose one no-trump, he should not have bid three hearts; he should have preferred three diamonds.
With such a soft hand having half its points in quacks — queens and jacks — he should have preferred three no-trump.
As this was highly likely to be a 5-1 fit, he should have preferred three spades, with a guarantee of at least seven trumps in the combined hands.
To a daughter, he wrote, "I should have preferred it to have been wiped from the earth, its beautiful hill sunk, and its sacred trees buried, rather than to have been degraded".
Should Morita have preferred Tokyo to San Diego?
For these reasons, the committee should perhaps have preferred the Saudi activist Wajeha al-Huwaider, who this year has started small with a conspicuous campaign to allow women in Saudi Arabia to drive.
Preferred shares -- as in, maybe you should have preferred not to invest?
When asked if he was getting off too easily by being charged with crimes that carry terms of life in prison, she said, "Certainly, I should have preferred the death penalty myself".
She liked the loose, naturalistic style: "I should have preferred to fill our cracks with a mixture of sand and fine soil so that tiny green plants would creep along the stones but this was one of the things that Walter would not have at any price.
The fun continues: "If you disagree with BAA's choice, is there another option you think we should have preferred?" followed by a list of incomprehensible and unexplained options (option B in mixed mode, option B in segregated mode, option C in mixed mode, etc).
If White tries to avoid the exchange by 8 Qe2, Black does well with 8... Nd4! 9 Nd4 Qd4 because 10 Rd1 is brushed aside by 10... Bg4! Since 16 Bg5 does not compel the exchange of dark-square bishops, Shirov should have preferred 16 Bf4 to secure his e5 pawn.
