six spades would produce a winning option for willy and hilly; at equal vulnerability it's down 5, for -1100 or -1400, and they're not playing matchpoints...
Like Hery's phantom partner holding the North hand, I would have bid 4♠ at my first opportunity after pard's takeout double. That said, after North has bid spades and spades, does South really have an option after 3♠ gets around to him. Doesn't he know ...
Typo has been corrected. Discussion is interesting, but I am not sure how the original point of the article (and, incidentally, Barry Rigal's original report on the hand) is affected. The question if whether East's discard of the "extra" heart remains a Neutrino, allowing declarer to get an ...
There is no reason to junk the article, and I for one am glad you did not.
the important thing here is the analysis of the alternatives and the thought process. As a famous judge (whose name I cannot recall) once said, it's not the answer that is important ...