The Other Lady

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Dealer: East
Vuln: N-S
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeK Q J 9 7 3
  2. heartA J 9
  3. diamondA 8 3
  4. club6
  1. spade5
  2. heartQ 8 7 5
  3. diamondQ J 10
  4. clubK 9 7 5 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N 2 5 - 5 3
S 2 5 - 5 1
E - - 2 - -
W - - 2 - -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeA 10 4
  2. heartK 10 6 4 3 2
  3. diamond7 4
  4. club8 3

Contract: 6spade
Declarer: North
Lead: heart4
  1. spade8 6 2
  2. heart—
  3. diamondK 9 6 5 2
  4. clubA Q J 10 4
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
2heart Pass
2NT* 3spade Dble~ Rdble
4heart Pass Pass 5club#
Pass 5diamond# Pass 5heart#
Pass 6spade End

! Weak
* notionally an enquiry
~ spade feature
# cue bid

Unless you find East with an unlikely 3-6-3-1 shape, when a red suit squeeze against her will work, or an even more unlikely diamondQJ10 doubleton (!) with West, you will need to find clubK favourably placed for a ruffing finesse against West - very likely on the bidding. The winning line therefore is to ruff the lead and follow with clubAQ. If West covers the defence is dead, so he will duck. Declarer ditches a diamond, plays a diamond to the ace and ruffs his other heart loser before cashing diamondK and playing on trumps. The vital unblocking of diamondK is similar to the familiar "Dentist's Coup", after which dummy can no longer put on play and East cannot organise herself a trump promotion.

By the way, just in case yo're wondering,,the other lady sat South.
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