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Dealer: East
Vuln: E-W
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spade8
  2. heartA K 10 8 7 4
  3. diamondQ J 8 5
  4. club8 3
  1. spade10 9 7 6
  2. heartQ J 9 5 2
  3. diamond—
  4. clubJ 10 9 4
club diamond heart spade NT
N 4 6 4 3 4
S 4 6 5 4 4
E - - - - -
W - - - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeQ 4 3 2
  2. heart3
  3. diamondK 10 6 4 2
  4. clubK 7 2

Contract: 6diamond
Declarer: South
Lead: heartQ
  1. spadeA K J 5
  2. heart6
  3. diamondA 9 7 3
  4. clubA Q 6 5
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
Pass 2diamond*
Pass 2spade~ Pass 3diamond#
Pass 4NT! Pass 5club
Pass 5NT+ Pass 6diamond
Pass Pass Pass

* Multi
~ to play if South has spade
# strong 4-1-4-4
! Roman Blackwood
+ How good are your trumps?

Declarer knew that East would be highly unlikely to have twelve black cards and therefore he must have discarded on the club to retain a strong trump holding. South pitched a club on heartK, finessed clubQ, cashed spadeAK and ruffed a spade, returned to clubA and ruffed a second spade. When a heart was led from dummy at trick nine East had only trumps remaining, but he could only muster one trick. At trick twelve the lead was in dummy and South had diamondA9 sitting over East's diamond106. This had been the five card ending ..
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