Index--Items beginning with D

Danger hand/safe hand

Declarer play

• Some basics
• First thoughts
• First card played from dummy
• Counting winners and losers
• Ruffing in dummy
• Ruffing in declarer's hand
• Cross-ruffing
• Top tricks--when to take them
• Ducking
• Establishing a suit
• Finessing
• Playing the cards in a suit in the right order
• Unblocking
• Playing for the drop
• Percentage plays
• Entries
• Ruffing finesse
• Leaving an opponent's trump out
• Safe hand/danger hand
• Making tricks from a long suit
• Delaying the drawing of trumps
• Ruffing out a suit

Defence

• General principles
• Passive opening leads vs trump contracts
• Passive opening leads vs no-trump contracts
• Active opening leads vs trump contracts
• Active opening leads vs no-trump contracts
• Returning your partner's lead
• Communications and signalling
• The forcing defence

Discards

Doubling

• For take-out
• For penalties
• One no-trump
• Lead directing

Ducking

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