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Dealer
W E-W Vul.
Another
deal from the Tollemache qualifier.
You
reach four hearts on the above auction, and are
lucky to escape a black suit lead.
West
leads the diamond five, on which East plays the
jack.
How
do you play?
Scroll
down for solution
Solution
This is an exercise in not drawing trumps. If
you draw even two rounds of trumps, the defence will
be able to play a third round at some point and you
will run out of tricks.
You
will need reasonable breaks, so play three rounds of
diamonds discarding a spade from dummy.
Then
play a spade or a club. There are many
variations but you will eventually make either two
spade ruffs and a club trick, or two spade ruffs and
the fourth diamond or a spade ruff, the fourth
diamond and a club trick.
In
practice declarer played a spade after the diamonds,
West won and played a trump won by South who then
played a club. West won the king, played a
club to the queen and ace. East now played a
spade ruffed in dummy, declarer played two more
rounds of trumps ending in dummy and threw the
losing spade on the jack of clubs.
The
full deal was
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