A teams-of-four match was, in effect, won and lost on this week’s deal. Both teams bid a slam, but one erred — only minutely — in the play . . .
North’s 4H bid was a cue-bid, showing A♥ and inviting a slam. At the first table, the declarer won the heart lead in dummy with Q♥ and called for dummy’s J♠. East covered this perforce with Q♠ and South won with A♠. However now, when South led a low spade towards dummy’s 10♠, West played low, and is left with ♠K8 sitting over declarer’s ♠ 94. West must score two trump tricks and the slam is down.
If the K♠ and Q♠ aren’t both with West, declarer should be OK. However, the trump intermediate cards are weak so you need to protect the tens and nines. In case East holds a singleton honour and West has four to an honour, declarer must lead 5♠ from dummy first.
East produces her Q♠ and South wins with A♠. (If East plays low, South finesses with 9♠, and later returns to dummy to lead J♠ for the second finesse.) No high cards have been wasted in pushing out the singleton honour, and South still holds ♠J109 between her two hands. West can only score her K♠. That is what the second declarer did and, as a result, her team took a commanding and, unassailable lead, in the match.
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