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A play problem from an online league match.
Dealer
W Love All.
You
reach four hearts, West leads the king of clubs,
with East showing an even number of clubs.
West
now switches to the seven of diamonds.
How
do you play?
This
problem is quite tricky.
Solution
There
are enough tricks with five hearts, two spades
(assuming the finesse is right) the ace of diamonds,
the queen of clubs and a diamond ruff. The
problem is getting at them all without getting
locked on table and giving West a spade trick.
The
only way to achieve this is to play the jack of
diamonds from dummy and duck East's queen.
Say
East returns a trump, you draw trumps and lead a
diamond finessing the ten, cash the ace of
diamonds throwing a club, then play a spade to the
jack and exit with the queen of clubs. West
is endplayed to give you a spade trick or ruff and
discard.
If
you fail to unblock the diamond jack this line
will not work if East returns a second diamond,
when you cannot discard a club.
The
full deal was
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