Relatively Small Margin

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Dealer: South
Vuln: N-S
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeQ 7
  2. heartA Q 8
  3. diamondQ 10 9 2
  4. clubQ 6 5 4
  1. spadeJ 5 3
  2. heart7 5 4 3
  3. diamondJ 4
  4. clubK J 9 8
club diamond heart spade NT
N - 4 3 - -
S - 4 3 - -
E 2 - - 3 -
W 2 - - 3 -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeA K 9 6 4
  2. heart9
  3. diamond7 6 5
  4. clubA 10 3 2
  1. spade10 8 2
  2. heartK J 10 6 2
  3. diamondA K 8 3
  4. club7
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1heart
Pass 2club Pass 2diamond
Pass 4heart Pass Pass
Pass
In the other room the Hackett twins found an absolutely brilliant defence against Tony McNiff's 4heart contract. A spade lead went to the king and East switched to ace and another club! Declarer had to ruff this, but what could he do now? The obvious line is to play a spade with the intention of ruffing a third round in dummy, but East won that and played another club. Not only did this promote a long trump winner for West, there was also clubK to come.

The actual swing on the board was 13 IMP to Rees where it could be have been 8 IMP to Crook. A huge swing in the context of a 20 IMPs overall win.
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