3rd March – Board 13: Game All. Dealer North.
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There were loads of different contracts and results on the featured hand but for once I am not interested in the bidding but the play in 6D from the North hand, as it should feature a smart play straight from the textbooks. Superficially it looks as though the contract depends upon the heart finesse, for if that works declarer has one spade, two hearts, six diamonds and three clubs. With the king badly placed you might think that declarer would lose two heart tricks but that needn’t be the case. Here is what should happen: Declarer wins the spade lead (say), draws trumps in two rounds and cashes the ace of hearts. He then crosses to the South hand with a club to ruff the remaining spade, cashes the remaining two clubs ending in dummy and leads a heart to the queen. If the king is well placed there is no problem, but if East holds that card doubleton then he will find himself endplayed. With only black cards left he will be forced to give declarer a ruff and discard and his twelfth trick in the process. It’s the same old story: so many times when a finesse is working you just don’t have to take it.
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