Unusual Choices All Round

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Dealer: North
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeA 4
  2. heartA Q
  3. diamond7 6 5
  4. clubJ 10 9 8 7 2
  1. spade8 7 3
  2. heart9 7 4
  3. diamondK J 10 8
  4. clubK Q 4
club diamond heart spade NT
N 5 3 1 - 1
S 5 3 1 - 1
E - - - 1 -
W - - - 1 -
Green square in centre
  1. spade10 5
  2. heartK 10 6 5 2
  3. diamond9 4 3
  4. clubA 5 3

Contract: 4spade
Declarer: North
Lead: spade5
  1. spadeK Q J 9 6 2
  2. heartJ 8 3
  3. diamondA Q 2
  4. club6
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1NT Pass 2heart*
Pass 2spade Pass 4spade
Pass Pass Pass

* transfer

The winning defence is to continue with a trump. At the table declarer won the diamondJ return on the table and crossed to heartA in hand. After ruffing a club in dummy, North threw his last diamond on heartJ and ruffed dummy's losing diamond with spadeA. The last four tricks were taken with dummy's trumps.

East's strange lead - not everyone's choice but made at three of the four tables, would have worked out OK had West been able to envisage North's off-centre opening bid. A initial lead of diamond9 would have proved very effective against 4spade, so someone questioned whether 3NT would have been better...
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