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Contract: 6 |
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
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6 |
Pass | Pass |
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Pass | Pass | 6 |
| Pass | Pass | Dble | Pass |
| Pass | Pass |
A at trick three West shows out, but now you cross to hand with a club and ruff another diamond. East discards on the next club but you win in hand, cash your remaining trumps and revert to playing clubs. East can ruff when it suits him, but will be faced with leading a heart back into the jaws of 
KJ. East missed a chance. He should have ruffed the second round of clubs and exited with a heart. Now South cannot enter his hand without shortening his trumps too far.
7 by South is ice cold, of course, but that would be a boring story - albeit a very high scoring one.
29/03/2026 It struck me that South could get home by discarding a diamond at trick one and then ruffing the expected diamond switch in dummy. Dummy cashes A10 and declarer returns to hand with a club to draw trumps. East could defeat this plan by returning a club at trick two, because now South cannot return to hand safely after the diamond ruf.
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