Talk:Law of total tricks

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Looking at this article it seems to be written in a fairly negative light. I personally find 'the law' much more useful than it would seem to be from this article. What do the rest of you feel? I still think it is a good article, however. Perhaps it should show how swapping cards (eg moving a king so the finesse fails) does not normally affect the total tricks - only changing the distribution (even breaks = less TT, bad breaks = more TT).Cambion 12:20, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Oh and how can we 'verify' the hand? Use suitplay? heheh. (See suit combinations...) Cambion 12:24, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

I ran the current example through GIB's double-dummy solver. It verifies that NS can make 4S. However, GIB says that EW can make 2H rather than 1H as the text states. Even the text lists only five defensive tricks. Radius 01:48, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

D'oh. Thanks. The example went through several consecutive rearrangements, and, according to the Murphy's Law, ended up in the wrong one. I think hope I fixed it now. Duja► 07:56, 23 July 2007 (UTC)