This
deal is from the recent NBL round 4 match.
West
led the spade ten ducked to the jack, the queen of
spades was returned with declarer discarding a club
and winning with the king in dummy.
With
only eight tricks and little prospect of a ninth
declarer resorted to the tried and trusted technique
of running his long suit and hoping that the defence
went astray.
On
the diamonds West threw the seven of spades, a club
and two low hearts, dummy discarded spades and East
a club. The ace of hearts followed by another
heart led to this end position with East on lead.
Now
declarer can always succeed. The most
challenging defence is for East to play the club
king which declarer can either duck or win and play
a spade to endplay West. In practice East
played the nine and six of hearts which made it easy
for declarer.
To
beat the contract West must keep one more heart and
one less club and East must keep three clubs.
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