[Zloty]

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West leads 4 of ♥

Any solution please.

Kind regards.

[eagles123]

How about

Trick 1:) win with Ace
Tricks 2-4 AKQ clubs
trick 5 spade to ace
trick 6 heart chucking??? so west gives us a ruff/sluff

apart from that i don't know!

I don't think that would work but all i could come up with!


Eagles

[jgillispie]

Zloty, on 2014-January-18, 11:07, said:

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West leads 4 of ♥

Any solution please.

Kind regards.

What was the bidding? If you know that W is void in D, then the double diamond finesse seems obvious...

[Zloty]

No bidding on this problem.

[uday]

This is all very double dummy, but i think you can make it looking at all the cards as follows.

Win the HA and ruff a heart high. Play two rounds of trumps. Either west keeps the C2 or he doesn't.

a. He has the CJ (or T) left.
Now you can play a club. he has to win and give a ruff sluff. You ruff on the board, pitching a spade. You play a Diamond ( east has to split) to your A or K.
Now you cash your last trump, throwing a diamond from the board.

Everyone is down to 5 cards, and east must unguard either spades or diamonds, so u have the rest of the tricks.


b. He throws the CJ and CT, keeping the C2. Now you cannot force him to win the third club, but instead you can overtake the C8 with the C9 and play a Diamond, east splitting.
You can cross to the board with the C4 to the C7.

Now everyone is down to 6 cards and East must hold 3S and 3D. so you can finesse Diamonds , cash the other high diamond and exit with a diamond loser to East, who will have to break spades for you, again giving you the rest of the tricks.

Someday GIB will play like this. Or not

[Zloty]

Great Uday,thanks.

[Cyberyeti]

Uday's solution is flawed, W wins the club 10 and exits his spade.

[uday]

Well, I was right - GIB already plays like this , then

I still think I am on the right track, tho.

OK, what about this? Cash the SK after the CAK. that will remove west's spade. Then can proceed as before.

[Cyberyeti]

uday, on 2014-January-18, 17:24, said:

Well, I was right - GIB already plays like this , then

I still think I am on the right track, tho.

OK, what about this? Cash the SK after the CAK. that will remove west's spade. Then can proceed as before.

I think this works

[Fluffy]

it doesn't work, East is no longer endplayed if you cash ♠K early. EDIT: It works, but you cash ♠K or not depending on what west does on the clubs.

[Zloty]

Dixit Uday: a. He has the CJ (or T) left
At this stage you play K of ♠
Now you play a ♣ West wins and plays ♥ and gives a ruff sluff.(ruff on the dummy) pitching a spade. Dummy plays ♦to south's A or K. South plays last trump throwing a diamond from the dummy.

Then proceed as Uday's explanation.

[Cyberyeti]

Fluffy, on 2014-January-19, 05:39, said:

it doesn't work, East is no longer endplayed if you cash ♠K early. EDIT: It works, but you cash ♠K or not depending on what west does on the clubs.

I assumed he meant that as there was only a problem with the first line