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First, consider the given suit combination in a heart contract.
In the abstract, there is almost always a right and wrong way to play a suit combination.
The normal way to play a suit combination may be wrong in light of the bidding.
Experts rarely have to think about suit combinations as such.
Most fundamental, the play of any suit combination is a zero-sum game.
Does anybody still think suit combinations are kids' stuff?
A suit combination allows for all possible lies of these remaining cards in those hands.
Even without psychological factors, the analysis of complex suit combinations is not straightforward.
Consider the suit combination represented in the figure.
This player plays a card from their hand and calls one of the four suit combinations on it (for example: three cubes).
This play was normal in terms of the suit combination and was further indicated by East's opening bid.
In the abstract, this suit combination is much harder if the opponents are silent and unhelpful.
SOME suit combinations look simple, but can become highly interesting in certain circumstances.
MOST players think of suit combinations as kids' stuff.
That contract provides a suit combination that is regularly misplayed.
First, a suit combination is a two-person zero-sum game.
There is one common suit combination that calls for expert defense, but also opens the door to a double-cross by the declarer.
Suit combinations have a chameleon-like quality: depending on circumstances, there can be half a dozen or more ways to play the same combination.
Other possibilities include editing hands, storing them, playing bridge "movies" and analyzing suit combinations.
The optimum treatment of a particular suit combination guarantees a certain minimum likelihood of success against any possible defense.
Roudinesco was the world authority on suit combinations.
One other convention is to put the greater number of cards in dummy, North, if the suit combination comprises two unequal holdings.
The book has 300 deals, many in quiz format, covering topics varying from suit combinations to deception and psychology.
The diagram shows a heart suit combination with six in dummy and four in declarer, or a "6-4 fit".
The adjacent table shows the eight possible lies of those three cards; the suit combination and its diagram implicitly include all eight possibilities.