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A
defensive problem from a Cheadle duplicate in January.
You
lead the spade six against five hearts, declarer
plays the two from dummy, partner the three and
declarer the five.
Somewhat
to your surprise you are on lead at trick two.
What do you play now?
Solution
Declarer
has a singleton spade and partner knows
that. Why has he left you on lead, rather
than overtaking and playing a diamond through?
The
answer is that he has a void diamond, so play
a diamond for partner to trump. You
still have the club ace and diamond king to
come for two down.
The full deal was
Declarer
needed to play the spade king from dummy at
trick one to escape for one down.
Well
defended by Neil Thomas who found the play
of the spade three.
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