I Wonder What Would Have Happened

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Dealer: South
Vuln: N-S
Scoring: Rubber
  1. spadeJ 10 3 2
  2. heartK 8 4
  3. diamondQ 9
  4. club9 8 7 2
  1. spade4
  2. heartQ 10 9 6 5 3
  3. diamond8 3
  4. club10 6 5 4
club diamond heart spade NT
N - - - 4 1
S - - - 4 1
E - - 1 - -
W - - 1 - -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeK 9 8
  2. heartJ
  3. diamondA K J 10 4 2
  4. clubQ J 3
  1. spadeA Q 7 6 5
  2. heartA 7 2
  3. diamond7 6 5
  4. clubA K
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1spade
Pass 2spade 3diamond 4S
Pass Pass Pass
What is East up to? Why has he underled his top diamonds on the third round, forcing his partner to ruff? There can be only one answer. He's attempting to weaken dummy's trump suit so that his own trumps are promoted. In this case you must decline the overruff and throw your heart loser - one which would probably have been lost anyway - and certainly on this distribution. You win the club return, cross to heartK and pick up the trumps with the finesse. There still remains spadeJ in dummy to take care of heart7 - ten tricks. This neat littlle loser on loser play could easily be overlooked by an unwary declarer... But I wonder what would have happened if West started with spadeK4?
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