Good News Required

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Dealer: South
Vuln: N-S
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeK Q 2
  2. heartJ 7 3
  3. diamond8 6 5
  4. clubA 9 4 2
  1. spadeA 9
  2. heart9 2
  3. diamond7 4 3
  4. clubK J 8 6 5 3
club diamond heart spade NT
N - - 4 2 2
S - - 4 2 2
E - 1 - - -
W - 1 - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeJ 10 7 5
  2. heart10 6 4
  3. diamondA Q 10 9 2
  4. clubQ

Contract: 4heart
Declarer: South
Lead: heart2
  1. spade8 6 4 3
  2. heartA K Q 8 5
  3. diamondK J
  4. club10 7
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1heart
3club* 3heart Pass 4heart
Pass Pass Pass

* weak

Chagas won the opening lead in and hand and led a spade to West's ace. That was very good news, and Chagas won the trump continuation in dummy to led a diamond towards hand. It was now East's turn to give declarer some good news by flashing in with an ace and continuing with a trump. Chagas considered that a squeeze might be required for the tenth trick and led a low club intending to duck, but when West also played low Chagas assigned a club honour to East and went up with dummy's ace, dropping East's queen. Declarer continued to count out West's shape by ruffing a diamond and crossing to dummy's spadeK.

This was the four card ending ..
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