This
deal
was
from a duplicate at Bramhall and Cheadle.
The
auction, like the final contract, was a thing of no
great beauty, however the play was interesting.
West
led a diamond to East's ace and a diamond was
returned. When declarer played a trump to the
king West initially discarded a heart, but then
replaced it with a small spade. Declarer
(Gilbert Lee) may have thought that West had got a
trick ahead of herself and successfully finessed the
seven of spades on the second round of trumps.
With the 4-1 break revealed he had to shorten his
trumps in order to coup East. So, a club to
dummy followed by two hearts throwing two
diamonds. Then trump the queen of hearts, a
diamond to dummy, trump the jack of hearts, then two
top clubs and another club forced East to ruff and
declarer had the rest. This is a double grand
coup, double because you reduce your trump length
twice and grand because you are ruffing winners.
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