In Monday’s column, I gave a deal from a team match in which both Souths played in spades with a low-club lead. One declarer won 11 tricks, the other only 7. I wondered whether there were deals with a greater disparity of tricks taken.

Larry Cohen of Boca Raton, Fla., sent me the diagramed deal, which occurred during the Mitchell Open Board-a-Match Teams at the 2006 Fall Nationals in Hawaii (rotated to make South the declarer).

It shows a different disparity, because at the other table East-West took a phantom sacrifice in six spades doubled, down 500, over six hearts, which could have been defeated by two tricks.

In the given auction, Fulvio Fantoni, an Italian who represents Monaco and is currently the top-ranked player in the world, was sitting West. He opened three diamonds.