THE END PLAY

Above deal was presented to me by Virenbhai Shah, a legend rubber bridge player at the Wilmington club. It was played by his friend, Bindiya.

Bindiya boldly bid 3♥ with three card support of her partners 1♥(four card bid) ♣Q led by West is surely absurd after West’s partner supports the spade suit, in spite of having four trumps! Any way South won the lead with the ♣A. cashed the ♠A and ♠K and ruffed the spade. South now played the ♥K, ducked by West but took the ♥Q and played back ♣9 which was taken with the ♣K by East. I wonder why he didn’t give his partner the ruff! Now East plays ♦4, South plays low and West the ♦K which was ducked by North, West continued the diamond which was capture by ♦A and North returned a diamond which was taken by East’s ♦Q.

At the end Bindiya was left with ♦5 and ♣J and ♣5. When South played the ♣J West was end played. If he ruffed with the ♥8 South will over ruff with ♥9 and remove the last trump with the ♥J and dummy is good. If West discards the spade South will discard the diamond from dummy and play the master diamond from the hand, the situation would be the same. Eventually East is caught in squeeze end play!

Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack.

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