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This
deal is from the Swiss Teams at the EBU mid-week
congress
You
lead the jack of diamonds, declarer plays
low from dummy, the seven from partner and
the three from declarer. What do you
play now?
Scroll
down for analysis.
Why
didn't declarer play a diamond honour from
dummy?
It
looks as though declarer is worried about a
shift to another suit and is leaving you on
lead as it will be more difficult for you to
shift than partner.
The
only suit declarer can be worried about is
hearts and his holding must be three small
for you to have a chance. You have to
switch to a low heart to partner's
king. Partner will return a heart and
you can give her a third round heart ruff to
defeat the contract. If you continue
with a diamond declarer trumps, plays a club
to the ace, discards a heart on the other
top diamond and eventually makes ten tricks
with a club ruff in dummy and the winning
trump finesse.
Declarer
was Raymond Semp, who was successful when
West failed to find the heart switch.
Thanks to Raymond for reporting the deal.
The
full deal was
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