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Dealer: North
Vuln: N-S
Scoring: Aggregate
  1. spade7
  2. heartA K Q J 9
  3. diamondQ 7 3
  4. club9 8 7 6
  1. spadeQ 10 5 3 2
  2. heart10 6 5
  3. diamondJ 6 2
  4. clubA 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N 4 2 3 - 2
S 4 3 3 1 2
E - - - - -
W - - - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeK 6 4
  2. heart8 7 3 2
  3. diamondK 10 5
  4. clubQ J 3

Contract: 3NT
Declarer: South
Lead: diamond2
  1. spadeA J 9 8
  2. heart4
  3. diamondA 9 8 4
  4. clubK 10 5 4
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1heart Pass 1spade
Pass 2heart Pass 3NT
Pass Pass Pass
It's all hypothetical really. at the table declarer won East's ten with the ace and immediately returned a diamond towards dummy, finessing the seven when West played low. Even if West had flashed in with diamondJ declarer still had a vital heart entry so declarer was always booked for nine tricks on a diamond lead.

Is there a passive defence that would have succeeded? Yes indeed - West has to find a heart lead or an immediate heart switch if a spade is led originally. Forced to cash the hearts or abandon them forever, South's hand is mercilessly suicide-squeezed on the run of the hearts and can now come to no more than eight tricks.
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