Those Brilliant Italians

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Dealer: North
Vuln: Game All
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spade10 7 6 5
  2. heartJ 6
  3. diamondQ 8 4 3
  4. clubK 8 6
  1. spadeK 9
  2. heartA 10 8 5 4
  3. diamondK 10 7 5 2
  4. club3
club diamond heart spade NT
N - - - - -
S - - - - -
E 4 6 5 3 5
W 4 6 5 3 5
Green square in centre
  1. spadeA 3 2
  2. heartQ 9
  3. diamondA J 6
  4. clubA Q 10 7 5

Contract: 6diamond
Declarer: West
Lead: club6
  1. spadeQ J 8 4
  2. heartK 7 3 2
  3. diamond9
  4. clubJ 9 4 2
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
Pass 1club Pass
1diamond Pass 1NT Pass
2club Pass 2diamond Pass
3diamond Pass 3heart Pass
3spade Pass 4diamond Pass
4heart Pass 4spade Pass
4NT Pass 5club Pass
5diamond Pass 6diamond End
Ask yourself this: with a doubleton in dummy would you have covered heartQ with South's heart holding? Probably not - it could easily be wrong if declarer has heartAJ10xx(x). What about covering with heartKx or heartKxx? That's much more likely! The subtle inference that South had not covered was not lost on Duboin - the hearts were not breaking. He therefore abandoned thoughts of establishing hearts and adopted a cross-ruff line..
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