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Dealer: North
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: Aggregate
  1. spadeA K J 10 5
  2. heartA
  3. diamondK Q 8 6 4
  4. clubA 7
  1. spade9 8 3 2
  2. heart8 5 3 2
  3. diamondJ 3
  4. club9 5 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N - - 3 3 -
S - - 3 3 -
E 1 3 - - -
W 1 3 - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeQ 7
  2. heart10 7
  3. diamondA 10 9 7 2
  4. clubK 10 8 3

Contract: 6heart
Declarer: South
Lead: heart2
  1. spade6 4
  2. heartK Q J 9 6 4
  3. diamond5
  4. clubQ J 6 4
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1spade Pass 2heart
Pass 3diamond Pass 3heart
Pass 4club Pass 4heart
Pass 5heart Pass 6heart
End
How about playing diamondK from the dummy when this is the situation that confronts you? Imagine you had reached this appalling slam and West again leads a trump.

You win and play diamondK as before, but now it is absolutely essential for East to play diamondA even though he has been given no chance of a count in diamonds from his partner. From his point of view you could have the hand shown on the previous page.
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