Such Elegance

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Dealer: West
Vuln: N-S
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeA 9 6
  2. heartJ 10 8 4
  3. diamond5
  4. clubA K Q 10 9
  1. spade10
  2. heartK 6
  3. diamond10 9 3 2
  4. clubJ 8 7 5 3 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N 4 5 6 3 6
S 4 4 6 3 6
E - - - - -
W - - - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeK J 7 5 4 2
  2. heart9 5
  3. diamondQ 8 7 4
  4. club4

Contract: 6heart
Declarer: South
Lead: spade10
  1. spadeQ 8 3
  2. heartA Q 7 3 2
  3. diamondA K J 6
  4. club6
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
Pass 1club 2spade 3heart
Pass 4NT* Pass 5spade
Pass 6heart Pass Pass
Pass

*Roman Key-Card Blackwood

If you decided that East has six spades for his weak jump overcall and therefore you could afford to take the trump finesse, I have no doubt that you would have also been successful in 6heart. But you would not have had the satisfaction that Hackett Snr. derived.

Paul won the spadeA and crossed to the ace of trumps. No heartK appeared, so he now began running the clubs. When the clubK was ruffed and over-ruffed, he found himself in the wrong hand for a diamond finesse, so he continued diamondA, diamondK and a diamond ruff. A club was ruffed in hand and the last diamond ruffed in dummy to reach the following position.
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