dummy reversal
reverse dummy

The opening lead had forced South into a dummy reversal play.

The easy road to success is a dummy reversal.

The winning play required South to ruff three clubs in his hand, a dummy reversal.

She looks for a way to succeed if both suits break badly, and finds it in a dummy reversal.

Some indicators that a hand may lend itself to dummy reversal are:

This would permit declarer to run a dummy reversal.

The dictionary gives the diagramed example of a dummy reversal.

This completed a classic dummy reversal maneuver, and he was the only player to bring home the grand slam.

The heart king was still in the dummy, so he had executed a dummy reversal to make his contract.

After a diamond lead, Ledeen achieved a dummy reversal.

A minor-suit lead would eventually have defeated the grand slam, since a dummy reversal attempt just fails.

He led a club at the second trick and maneuvered to take two club ruffs in his hand, a dummy reversal.

This dummy reversal play succeeded because one defender, West as it happened, had the minority of the missing spades together with a singleton heart.

Hoffman calculates that the chance that the dummy reversal play will succeed, given the heart lead at the second trick, is 13.7 percent.

Unless declarer is playing for a dummy reversal, he usually intends to ruff losers in the short trump hand anyway.

Notice that this dummy reversal plan would have failed, for lack of entries, if East's tripleton trump had included the ten or the jack.

The purpose of dummy reversal is to yield more tricks than the normal technique; the technique can be adapted for use in other trick-taking games.

This was a remarkable way to play the first round of trumps in a grand slam, and it led to a declarer reversal, the opposite of a dummy reversal.

The ending following this dummy reversal plan was this: South now knew that East had begun with nine minor-suit cards and that his plan was very likely to work.

One conspicuous exception is the dummy reversal play, which was used on the diagramed deal from a Knockout Team match at the Bermuda Regional Championships in January 1994.

West was left to discover that a trump lead or a club lead would have removed a vital entry from the dummy prematurely, preventing Bell's elegant dummy reversal and unblock maneuver.

Declarer, being the first to have bid the suit, usually has more trumps than his partner (the eventual dummy) and so the term "dummy reversal" is used to describe the case where during the play, dummy is made to have more.

In order to gain tricks by trumping, the ruff has to be taken in the short hand, or enough ruffs must be made in the hand which was originally longer in trumps to make it shorter than the other hand (dummy reversal, described above).