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A
deal from a Manchester online league match.
Dealer S Game All.
You
reach four spades on the above auction.
West
leads the ten of diamonds, form a plan.
Solution
The key play is to duck the first diamond. This
forces the defence to play a trump at trick two to
prevent a diamond ruff, while you retain the ace
of diamonds as an entry.
After
the trump switch you draw four rounds of trumps,
they break 5-1 with East having the singleton
queen.
Then
the king of clubs and a club to the ace, it
doesn't help West to trump this. If West
throws a diamond on the ace of clubs you can ruff
a heart in hand cross to the ace of diamonds and
ruff another heart in hand for six trumps tricks,
two clubs and the red aces. If West throws a
heart on the ace of clubs, then ace of hearts
throwing a diamond, and the jack of clubs.
East wins the queen of clubs but the only other
trick the defence gets is the winning trump as
there is a winning club in dummy to throw another
diamond on.
The
full deal was
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