Sentence examples similar to spade case from inspiring English sources

She would fear that South had seven spades, in which case leading a low heart would concede an expensive overtrick.

First, declarer might have started with Q-x-x of spades, in which case returning the jack, pinning dummy's ten, would allow the defenders to take the first five tricks.

The analysts at first thought that West could have prevailed by shifting to a diamond after taking the spade ace, but that was not the case.

Declarer took the second trick in his hand and led the spade queen, just in case West had the king and erred by covering.

Games was astute enough to learn lessons from modern art, including surrealism, and often fused incongruous objects to make his point: in this case a spade becomes a ship for the wartime government 'dig for victory' campaign aimed at raising Britain's self-sufficiency at a time when many merchant ships were being sunk.

For one thing, such an aggressive stance is bound to provoke exactly the kind of response the hotel was hoping to avoid in this case in spades.

The total number of trumps for the two partnerships in their best fit is 18, in this case in spades or diamonds for North-South and in hearts or clubs for East-West.

There was a case for a spade (but dummy had bid the suit), a heart (but it might help declarer play the suit without loss) and a diamond (but no one likes to lead from a suit headed by the ace without the king).

East cashed the spade ace and played a third spade.

Fantoni ruffed, cashed his spade ace and led another spade.

He cashed the spade ace and led another spade.