This
deal
from
an EBU duplicate demonstrates a useful piece of
defensive technique.
West
led a heart against four spades. Declarer won
in dummy and played a spade. East won with the
ace and played back the eight of hearts to give suit
preference for diamonds when West ruffed the heart.
How
do the defenders ensure that they get all their
heart ruffs?
West
should return the queen of diamonds, East wins with
the ace and plays back the seven of hearts to
indicate possession of the diamond jack as an entry.
West
can now underlead the diamond queen to get East in
to play a fourth heart to allow West to get all his
heart ruffs.
Similarly
if West had started with KQJx of diamonds and East
had A10xxx West can start with the jack of diamonds
and East can show the ten of diamonds by playing a
high heart.
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