It's All About Timing

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Dealer: North
Vuln: N-S
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spade2
  2. heartA 10 9
  3. diamondK Q J 6 4 3
  4. clubJ 5 2
  1. spadeK 9 7 6 5
  2. heart5 4 3
  3. diamondA 7
  4. club10 9 3
club diamond heart spade NT
N 4 3 - - 1
S 4 3 - - 1
E - - 1 2 -
W - - 1 2 -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeA Q 8 3
  2. heartQ 8 7 6 2
  3. diamond10 8 5
  4. clubQ

Contract: 5club
Declarer: South
Lead: heart4
  1. spadeJ 10 4
  2. heartK J
  3. diamond9 2
  4. clubA K 8 7 6 4
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1diamond Dble Rdble
2spade Pass Pass 3club
Pass 3diamond Pass 3spade
Pass 4club Pass 5club
Pass Pass Pass
Partner does not have a big hand does he? He must have made a very sporting double without heartKJ and clubAK. The two pointed Aces are your only obvious defensive tricks. There is no need to panic though, and you should duck this trick. Time and time again defenders can ruin declarer's timing by ducking. Here there is no danger of a declarer having a singleton, for partner will not have four diamonds on this bidding. In this case, declarer will probably play a spade from the dummy and now the defence must be careful. Whoever wins the spade, East-West must win their diamond now and play a spade, locking declarer in dummy and forcing him to concede a trump promotion.
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