Board 21 of the second half of the US-Poland match featured Bob Hamman and discarding:



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Both tables were in 3NT by East and both South players led a fourth best heart. Declarer ran off four club tricks and South had to make two discards. Hamman discarded two small diamonds! Now declarer took a spade finesse, cashed the other high spade, put Hamman in with a heart, but found out he had a spade exit and that was down one. At the other table, South discarded a spade and a diamond on the clubs, and South found himself endplayed in the red suits (either forced to lead away from the diamond king, or forced to play small in hearts so that declarer wins the trick). That made it 110-84 Poland-USA after this board and gave hopes to a USA rally.