Elegant Line to Lose 9 IMP

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Dealer: West
Vuln: N-S
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeA 6
  2. heartQ 10 9 6 5 2
  3. diamond—
  4. clubA K J 10 8
  1. spade9 5 3 2
  2. heart8 4 3
  3. diamondQ 10 8 5
  4. club7 6
club diamond heart spade NT
N 3 5 2 6 4
S 3 5 2 6 4
E - - - - -
W - - - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeJ
  2. heartA K J 7
  3. diamond9 4 3
  4. clubQ 9 5 4 2

Contract: 6spadex
Declarer: South
Lead: heart3
  1. spadeK Q 10 8 7 4
  2. heart—
  3. diamondA K J 7 6 2
  4. club3
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
Pass 1heart Pass 1spade
Pass 2club Pass 2diamond*
Pass 3club Pass 3diamond
Pass 3spade Pass 5spade
Pass 6spade Dble Pass
Pass Pass

* 4th suit forcing

Sandra inserted dummy's heart9 and ruffed East's jack. A diamond was ruffed low, spadeA cashed and heart10 led from dummy, again covered by East and ruffed in hand. After drawing four more rounds of trumps, diamondAK were cashed in the hope that diamondQ would appear. When that failed to materialise, South crossed to clubA in a four card ending. East had been forced to reduce to AQxx, and when declarer exited from dummy with heartQ East was end-played into conceding the last two tricks.

As you would expect, there was a swing .
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