At the Long Island Fall Regional Justine Cushing, Melih Ozdil and Joel Wooldridge of New York, and Lew Finkel of Jupiter, Fla., were by far the most successful players at the Long Island Fall Regional in Smithtown, N.Y., last week. They entered five team events and won all of them, amassing 93.26 master points each. The next-best players gained only 40.83 points. The diagramed deal occurred during Thursday's Swiss Teams. In the given auction, two clubs was fourth-suit game-forcing. Four clubs was a control-bid (cue-bid) expressing slam interest. What did Cushing (West) lead against six hearts? At the other table the auction was more accurate. Finkel (North) and Wooldridge bid one diamond - one heart - one spade - two clubs (fourth-suit) - two hearts - two no-trump - three no-trump - four diamonds - four hearts - five clubs (control-bid) - five spades (control-bid) - six diamonds - pass. East led a club. North won with dummy's king and cashed the diamond jack, noting the fall of the nine. North now played a heart to his jack, which held; led a diamond to dummy's ten, confirming the 4-1 break; and played another heart to his ten. When that won, North led a third heart. West returned a club, but declarer won in the dummy, ruffed the last club in his hand, overtook his remaining trump with dummy's ace, cashed the diamond seven and claimed. He took two spades, three hearts, four diamonds, two clubs and a club ruff in his hand. Against six hearts, Cushing listened carefully to the auction. It seemed that her opponents had an eight-card diamond fit, so she led a diamond. She won the second trick with her heart ace and gave her partner a diamond ruff. Plus 1,370 and plus 100 gave the Cushing team 17 international match points on the board. While the opponents are bidding, do not stare around the room or out the window. Construct pictures of their hands and calculate the likely point-count strength of your partner.