The bridge game in Moonraker

Just wondering if anyone could decipher the bridge game in MR for me, or if there's a link online anywhere that has it covered. Thanks.

No one? I ask because I'm trying to write a Bond screenplay, and I feel like I can't get much further with the villain's character without first writing the bridge game he cheats in.

Satchmo, I recommended either learning Bridge, or have your villain play a banking game that you're familiar with. Just not scrabble.

I've been trying to teach myself bridge. Somehow I haven't found much time for it though!

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Bond dealt himself Q and seven small diamonds and AQTxx in clubs. He bid 7 Clubs, making clubs trumps, not diamonds. Drax (on Bond's right) doubled, and he redoubled.

Because Bond held AQT over Drax's KJ9, he could finesse clubs by leading from dummy and simply covering whatever card Drax played. To get to dummy, he ruffed diamonds twice (having dealt M a diamond void), which would drop Drax's AK doubleton. Once all the trumps had been drawn by finessing through Drax, then the diamonds were all winners.

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