Lovely Deal From South Africa

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Dealer: East
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spade8 5
  2. heart8 7 3
  3. diamondK 10 6
  4. clubA Q J 9 2
  1. spadeQ J 7 3
  2. heart9 6 2
  3. diamond7 3 2
  4. club7 6 4
club diamond heart spade NT
N 4 - 3 - 1
S 4 - 3 - 1
E - 3 - 3 -
W - 3 - 3 -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeA K 10 9 4
  2. heartA 4
  3. diamondQ J 9 8 5
  4. club3

Contract: 4heart
Declarer: South
Lead: spadeQ
  1. spade6 2
  2. heartK Q J 10 5
  3. diamondA 4
  4. clubK 10 8 5
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1spade 2heart
Pass 3heart Pass 4heart
Pass Pass Pass
PART THREE - THE DEFENCE HAS THE LAST WORD! Declarer should have been rewarded for thwarting East's plan, but the defence were not yet done. East found a countermeasure to declarer's recovery and launched a further attack. He lead a fourth round of diamonds and declarer was between a rock and a hard place. If he ruffed low (either in hand or dummy), West would score his precious nine of hearts, so he was forced to ruff 'high', say with the ten. When declarer drives out the Ace of trumps (he must lead a 'high' trump, say the King) then East gets in with the Ace and he pushes thru' his last diamond! Either West makes heart9 now, or if declarer ruffs 'high' again, West still has heart9 and heart6 over declarer's heartQ and heart5 and must score a trump trick.
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