This
deal
is adapted from a duplicate at Bramhall and Cheadle.
After
a routine auction, you play in three notrump on the
lead of the spade seven.
You
play the king, East wins with the ace and returns a
spade. You now play the jack of diamonds which
West takes with the ace and returns a club to the
ten and king.
What
now?
If
either minor suit plays for four tricks you now have
the rest, if not it is likely that each opponent
guards one minor and they will each be squeezed in
hearts and the minor.
A
plausible line of play is cash the remaining spades
throwing hearts from dummy, East can afford to throw
one heart. Then cash another top club, leading
to the position below. When a club is played
to the ace East has to hold the diamonds, so must
relinquish her heart guard. Now a diamond to
the queen and another diamond puts pressure on
West. She must hold on to the jack of clubs,
so must also give up the heart guard. Now
declarer makes three heart tricks.
This
is a non-simultaneous double squeeze.
At
the table, unfortunately for squeeze technicians,
West held A10 doubleton of diamonds, so eleven
tricks were easy.
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