Do Your Duty

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Dealer: East
Vuln: Game All
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeA Q 9 6 4
  2. heartQ 7
  3. diamondK 9 4 3
  4. club9 2
  1. spade10 7 5
  2. heartJ 10 8 4 2
  3. diamondA J 6
  4. clubJ 3
club diamond heart spade NT
N - - - 2 -
S - - - 2 -
E 6 5 4 - 2
W 6 5 4 - 2
Green square in centre
  1. spade—
  2. heartA K
  3. diamondQ 10 7 5 2
  4. clubA K Q 7 5 4

Contract: 5diamond
Declarer: East
Lead: spade3
  1. spadeK J 8 3 2
  2. heart9 6 5 3
  3. diamond8
  4. club10 8 6
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1club Pass
1heart Pass 2diamond Pass
3club* Pass 3diamond Pass
4diamond Pass 4spade Pass
5diamond End

*weak, false preference

Imagine you reach 5diamond via this improbable sequence.

You ruff the spade lead and run the ten of diamonds. That loses to the king and North punches you again with another spade. You ruff in hand, and instead of playing another trump, you play safely by continuing clubs. When eventually they ruff in, you ruff a third spade (high) and draw all the trumps with dummy's diamondAJ. There is still heartA to enter hand to enjoy the remaining winners.

Oh yes, at the other table someone passed a forcing sequence and the final contract was 3club - so there was indeed a swing!
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