Yet
another deal from the Tollemache Qualifier.
You
are defending against two notrump. You choose
to lead the four of hearts, dummy plays the jack,
partner wins with the king, the six from declarer.
Partner
returns the five of hearts to the eight, seven and
ace. Declarer plays the diamond queen from
dummy, the three from partner, four from declarer,
you duck smoothly. Declarer now plays the
diamond jack, the two from partner, five from
declarer and you win with the king. What now?
Scroll
down for solution.
Declarer
seems to have the queen of hearts and the ace
of diamonds, yet passed two notrump. It
looks as though he has no more honour cards,
so switch to a club. Partner turns up
with AQ10x in clubs, you take four club tricks
to defeat the contract.
The
full deal was as below. Note that
ducking the first diamond was a slight error
in that declarer now had eight tricks, but
from his point of view the hearts may well
have been 4-2 and the diamond finesse appeared
to be working.
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