More Defending to Do

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Dealer: South
Vuln: N-S
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spade6
  2. heartA 8 2
  3. diamondA J 2
  4. clubA K J 10 7 5
  1. spadeA 2
  2. heartK J
  3. diamondQ 10 9 7 5
  4. club8 4 3 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N 3 - 3 - 2
S 3 - 3 - 2
E - 3 - 1 -
W - 3 - 1 -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeK Q 5 4 3
  2. heartQ 7 6
  3. diamondK 8 4 3
  4. club9

Contract: 4heart
Declarer: South
Lead: spadeA
  1. spadeJ 10 9 8 7
  2. heart10 9 5 4 3
  3. diamond6
  4. clubQ 6
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
Pass
Pass 1club 1spade Pass
1NT Dble 2diamond 2heart
4diamond 4heart End
It's hard to get this one right, but a spade continuation is the winning defence. Declarer is forced to ruff in dummy and will do well to hold the loss to minus 100. If clubs are continued then East ruffs and forces dummy again with a high spade. Now South must return to hand with a diamond ruff and exit with a trump to make nine tricks.

How can West get this right? The duck of the trump at trick two is the give away - declarer will not be playing like this with six trumps or heartQxxxx - he'd be going up with heartA at trick three. At the table West gave East a club ruff, but South's problems were over. In the other room ..
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