Length in dummy can be valuable if we ruff out the suit, but length and strength in dummy can used in a variety of ways to produce extra winners.  

Establishing a long and relatively weak suit in dummy is usually done by ruffing the suit out.  We look at how best accomplish this!

In suit contracts, shortness in the dummy is extremely valuable.   Here we look at how to best make use of dummy's short suit.

Playing a suit contract requires some skills for how to get rid of our losers in that suit.  We look at how to play suits that are equal in length in both dummy and declarer's hand.

The order in which we develop our winners, called Timing, is just an important as which choices you make in developing winners.  Let's see how timing a hand wrong can cause the play to go astray.  

Developing winners is an important part of declaring a notrump contract.  But if we cannot get to those winners after we have developed them, then they are not useful.  Here we look at Transportation and making it part of our plan in notrump contracts.

When and how to give up control to the opponents is a difficult decision.  In notrump contracts this can be particularly dangerous as the opponents may take many winners.   Here we look at how to give up control of the hand and how to use hold up plays to try to make it safe to do so.

This month we look at some Declarer play tools that are effective in Notrump contracts.  We begin by examining the concept of the danger hand (and the safe hand) and look at how to make us of this to make our best declarer play choices.  

Playing a suit contract without a big trump fit isn't easy.  But sometimes it is the best part score (or even game) that we can find.  We look at these misfits and see how we are forced to play them differently!

When we can ruff our losers in the short trump side we produce extra tricks for ourselves.  Let's see how we evaluate our hand when we have these ruffing values.