Slight Variation

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Dealer: North
Vuln: Game All
Scoring: Rubber
  1. spadeK 7 6
  2. heartA K
  3. diamondA
  4. club10 9 7 6 5 4 2
  1. spade—
  2. heartQ 7 5 4 2
  3. diamond9 8 5 3
  4. clubA K Q J
club diamond heart spade NT
N 2 - 4 6 3
S 2 - 4 6 3
E - 4 - - -
W - 3 - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spade9 5 4 2
  2. heart3
  3. diamondJ 10 7 6 4 2
  4. club8 3

Contract: 6spade
Declarer: South
Lead: clubA
  1. spadeA Q J 10 8 3
  2. heartJ 10 9 8 6
  3. diamondK Q
  4. club—
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1club Pass 2spade
Pass 3club* Pass 3heart~
Pass 3spade Pass 4heart#
Pass 4NT Pass 5spade
Pass 6heart Pass 6spade
Pass Pass Pass

*ugh
~ also questionable
# ugh

It must be lovely to bring home a big contract like this via the spectacular line that the author recommended. After ruffing the opening lead and cashing spadeA, declarer sees that convenient entries to hand are scarce. Because the trumps break badly, South is unable to take a straightforward line and it was suggested that South continues to draw all East's trumps, throwing diamondA from dummy in the process. diamondKQ follow, now throwing heartAK from dummy(!), and all that remains is for declarer to force out heartQ and use his last trump to get in again.

Agree? Well, almost. The recommended line leads to losing the last trick to West's heart7, so South must cash only one top heart first before drawing trumps.
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