Grosvenor's lifeless body is eventually found bludgeoned to death, his dealing fingers broken, shortly after a bridge tournament in which he used his gambit against the wrong opponents.
A subsequent article by Kit Woolsey in The Bridge World, titled The Grosvenor Gamble,[2] extends the original idea, farcically expounded in the 1973 story, to possible at-the-table applications.
South will regret not having finessed, and – per Grosvenor's theory – will be furious with himself for not taking the illogical play, for not guessing that West would misplay from ♦Q 10 6.
East-West are expected to reap even more benefit on the following boards, due to the emotional storm that West has stirred up for North-South.
In his 1973 article,[3] Turner describes various other examples, including one in which a Grosvenor gambit is successfully deployed by declarer.