Disrupted Engineers

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Dealer: West
Vuln: N-S
Scoring: Pairs
  1. spadeA K Q 5
  2. heart9 8 5 4
  3. diamond2
  4. clubQ 9 7 4
  1. spadeJ 9 7
  2. heartA J
  3. diamond10 8 6 4
  4. clubA J 8 6
club diamond heart spade NT
N 2 1 2 2 3
S 2 1 2 2 3
E - - - - -
W - - - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spade10 6 4 2
  2. heartK 3
  3. diamondJ 9 7 5
  4. clubK 5 3

Contract: 4heart
Declarer: South
Lead: spade7
  1. spade8 3
  2. heartQ 10 7 6 2
  3. diamondA K Q 3
  4. club10 2
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1club* Pass 1diamond 1heart
2diamond 3heart Pass 4heart
Pass Pass Pass

* weak No-Trump type

At the table declarer quickly cashed three rounds of spades to ditch a losing club, heaved a mental sigh of relief when that passed off peacefully, and led a trump. Unfortunately that was not good enough - even though the trumps were two-two. West was Patrick Jourdain, prolific writer, Welsh International and no mean player. Realising that declarer would not be in such a hurry to discard clubs if he held the clubK, he led a small club to his partner. The spade return enabled the defence to take three trumps tricks.

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