Four
No-Trump was too high, but as the play developed it took a combination of
brilliant plays for the defence to
prevail.
North led
the ♠6. South took his ♠Q and rather than
simply continue spades, he switched to the ♣8,
declarer winning in dummy as North followed with ♣6.
Declarer
unblocked the ♣A and played a spade to the Jack. South went in with the ♠A and
exited with a spade, declarer winning in the dummy and cashing the remaining
spade winner, discarding two hearts from his hand.
Now came
the Ace and King of diamonds, on which North delivered the ♦Q. That avoided the first possible endplay.
When
declarer continued with dummy’s ♦4 the
crocodile reared his head and South went up with the ♦J, avoiding the second possible endplay.
He exited
with a diamond and the declarer had to surrender a heart trick at the end.
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