Dick Anderson, a two-time Super Bowl winner with the Miami Dolphins, said, “If we have the opportunity to rebid, we will do so.”

In today’s deal, what should South rebid? How should the auction then proceed? Also, how should South plan the play in four spades after West leads the club king?

South should raise two diamonds to three diamonds. The alternative of two no-trump is unappealing with that weak heart holding. If three no-trump is the best contract, probably (though not certainly) North should be the declarer. (Do not rebid two spades. Bend over backwards never to rebid in a five-card suit.)

After South’s raise to three diamonds, North should jump to four spades. Double fits are delicious and generate more tricks in the play than the combined point-count would typically suggest.

South is faced with a potential loser in each suit. There will be a strong temptation to lead a heart to dummy’s king (West should signal with the 10 and East with the queen, both playing the top of their touching cards when they cannot win the trick) and to take the trump finesse. Here, though, West will win with his king, cash the club queen, and lead a heart. When East gets in with the diamond ace, he can cash the heart jack to defeat the contract.

The spade finesse is a black-suit herring. South should cash his spade ace and play another trump. West wins, takes the club queen, and shifts to hearts, but declarer wins that trick on the board, draws the last trump, and drives out the diamond ace. He loses only one spade, one diamond and one club.