Not Everything You Read is Necessarily True

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Dealer: North
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spade
  2. heartA
  3. diamond10
  4. clubQ 10
  1. spade
  2. heartJ 6 5
  3. diamond
  4. club2
Green square in centre
  1. spade
  2. heartK 10
  3. diamond
  4. clubK J

Contract: 4spade
Declarer: South
Lead: diamondA
  1. spadeJ
  2. heartQ 8 7
  3. diamond
  4. club
West North East South
1diamond Pass 1spade
Pass 2club Pass 2diamond
Pass 2spade Pass 4spade
Pass Pass Pass
Declarer knows that East must have started with nine cards in hearts and clubs, whereas West has only seven such cards - making the club finesse odds against. My correspondent suggested that we consider what happens if declarer decides to play off four rounds of trumps, cross to dummy with clubA and cash the other two diamonds. In the diagram, as the last diamond is played East is caught in a deadly trump squeeze. To discard a club creates a winner for North via a club ruff in hand, and to throw a heart allows declarer to cash heartA and win the last two tricks with a trump and heartQ.

Maybe bridge columns,and certainly this one, should carry a disclaimer. Not everything you read is necessarily true!

03/10/2023 How generally true that is these days - especailly stuff online.
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