No Cost Blind Spot Gets Just Deserts

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Dealer: East
Vuln: E-W
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spade10 8 7 2
  2. heartK 10 4 2
  3. diamond6 5 2
  4. club8 6
  1. spade—
  2. heartA J 9 6 5
  3. diamondK Q 10
  4. clubA K 9 5 4
club diamond heart spade NT
N - - - - -
S - - - - -
E 7 7 6 4 7
W 7 7 6 4 7
Green square in centre
  1. spadeA K Q 5
  2. heartQ 7
  3. diamondA J 9 4
  4. clubJ 10 3

Contract: 6NT
Declarer: East
Lead: diamond7
  1. spadeJ 9 6 4 3
  2. heart8 3
  3. diamond8 7 3
  4. clubQ 7 2
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1NT* Pass
2diamond~ Pass 2heart Pass
3club Pass 3NT Pass
4club Pass 4heart Pass
4spade Pass 6club Pass
6NT End

* 17-20
~ transfer

You can afford to overtake diamond10 with the jack and run clubJ. If that loses you now have twelve tricks, and if it doesn't you can take another finesse. Whatever happens, you are assured of success.

At the table, East had one of those horrible blind spots. He won in the dummy and followed with a small heart from the table. North ducked and declarer continued in a fog by playing a heart to the nine and ten. East won the spade return, crossed to dummy with a diamond and cashed heartA to learn about the bad news there. After cashing his diamond winners North discarded a spade so South was eventually show-up squeezed in the black suits. A lucky 1440, so what's all this prattle about 12 IMPs?
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