Difficult Timing

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Dealer: West
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: Pairs
  1. spadeA Q 8 3 2
  2. heartA K J 8 4
  3. diamondA K
  4. clubA
  1. spadeK J 10 6 5 4
  2. heart10 9 6 2
  3. diamond3
  4. clubJ 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N 2 5 6 3 4
S 2 5 6 3 4
E - - - - -
W - - - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spade9 7
  2. heart5
  3. diamondJ 8 7 5
  4. clubK Q 8 7 6 5

Contract: 7diamond
Declarer: South
Lead: spadeJ
  1. spade—
  2. heartQ 7 3
  3. diamondQ 10 9 6 4 2
  4. club10 9 4 3
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
2spade* Dble Pass 5diamond
Pass 5spade Pass 6club
Pass 7diamond End

* weak

Win spadeQ throwing a heart, ruff a spade as before. Now cash heartQ, cross to dummy with a diamond and ruff another spade to reduce South to the same number of trumps as East. When declarer crosses to diamondK he finds out about the trumps but because he has already cashed one heart then he can play spadeA from dummy to fix East. This is the ending ..
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