World Championship Depends On You

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Dealer: South
Vuln: N-S
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spade6
  2. heartA K 9 2
  3. diamondK J 6
  4. club10 9 5 4 3
  1. spadeQ 8
  2. heart4 3
  3. diamondA Q 10 9 4 2
  4. clubA Q J
club diamond heart spade NT
N 3 - 3 - 1
S 4 - 3 - 1
E - 1 - - -
W - 1 - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeJ 10 9 3 2
  2. heartQ J 5
  3. diamond8 7 5 3
  4. club6

Contract: 4heart
Declarer: South
Lead: diamondA
  1. spadeA K 7 5 4
  2. heart10 8 7 6
  3. diamond—
  4. clubK 8 7 2
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1spade
2diamond Dble 4diamond Pass
Pass Dble Pass 4heart
Pass Pass Pass
If the trumps are four-one, you would be very hard pushed to make this contract, so ruff diamondA, cash heartAK and play ace, king and ruff a spade. Now lead a club and cover East's six with the eight. West will not want to open up the clubs so he leads a diamond. You finesse and cash diamondK, throwing clubs, and play club from dummy. West must now lead either a club, which allows declarer to make his trumps separately, or a diamond - ruffed in dummy. A club winner now allows South to make his last trump en passant. What really happened..?
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