Imaginative Play is A Real Winner

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Dealer: South
Vuln: Game All
Scoring: Pairs
  1. spade5 3 2
  2. heartQ
  3. diamond9 8 3
  4. clubA K Q 10 8 3
  1. spade9 8
  2. heartK J 8 5 4 3 2
  3. diamond10 4
  4. clubJ 7
club diamond heart spade NT
N 6 3 - 3 3
S 6 3 - 3 3
E - - 1 - -
W - - 1 - -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeA J 10 4
  2. heart10 9 6
  3. diamondQ J 7 6
  4. club9 2

Contract: 6club
Declarer: North
Lead: heart10
  1. spadeK Q 7 6
  2. heartA 7
  3. diamondA K 5 2
  4. club6 5 4
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1NT*
2heart 3heart Pass 3spade
Pass 6club End

* strong

East's imaginative play turned out to be a real winner. Imagine he flies in with spadeA on the second round and plays, well, anything. Declarer wins and rattles off all the trumps to catch East in a spade/diamond squeeze - twelve tricks are the result.

The irony is that East's play could be a winner even if declarer does rise with dummy's queen on the second round. Instead of playing off his trumps to catch East in a squeeze without the count, declarer might still play for a 3-3 spade break. That would lead to defeat by one trick. By the way, East was Bob Hamman.
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