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...Since both diamond and spade finesses are losing, the latter play will prove essential. Most West players led 10♣, which declarer won perforce....
...Instead, declarer should take the doomed heart finesse and, whatever is returned, win in dummy. Then, he can lead a diamond....
...If declarer could score four club tricks, he could pitch a diamond from dummy and, later, ruff his third diamond from hand....
...Declarer should draw trumps, use Q♦ to throw a spade from dummy, and cross-ruff spades and diamonds. This is all easy, but what about the heart suit?...
...Only one successful minor suit finesse is required. Having drawn trumps, South took the diamond finesse, losing to East’s king. East exited passively with another diamond....
...Now, South led his final diamond....
...What made declarer finesse in diamonds? Simply to ensure that East could not win the trick, since a high spade led through declarer’s precarious stopper scuppers 3NT....
...Q♦ is led next and, when East plays small, declarer pitches his 4♥ — a classic ruffing finesse, pitching a loser on loser....
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...Three rounds of trumps followed but if South drew East’s final trump she would be without trumps herself, so she tried the diamond finesse....
...If East did not hold K♠ and discards low spades, a diamond at the end is just as good, furnishing South with tricks 8 and 9 via his K♦ and dummy’s A♠....
...“To me, it looks like a diamond, it sparkles like a diamond and makes me feel like I’m wearing a diamond,” says the 36-year-old writer and actor, who lives in New York....
...If declarer opts to trump diamonds in dummy, there is no quick entry back to hand to enable the final ruff; if she chooses to ruff only two and finesse for Q♥, she fails....
...He took the heart finesse, which also won, and followed with a fourth round of diamonds, ruffed in hand. He crossed back to dummy’s A♥ and played his fifth diamond....
...If West retains two diamond winners, declarer must now guess whether to finesse the spade or play for the drop. Many good players will misguess....
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...Now, he can cash A♣, cross-ruff clubs and diamonds, and then draw East’s trumps. The unlikely extra chance brings home the vulnerable game....
...West led 5♠; declarer considered, since a club loser is inevitable, that the hand rests on how the diamond suit is handled. Should he play for J♦ to drop, or take the finesse?...
...A lazy declarer draws trumps and takes the diamond finesse, claiming very bad luck with it loses....
...If the trump suit divides — or the club finesse is right — all is easy but, if trumps break poorly and East holds Q♣, what should declarer plan to try to secure his contract?...
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...Perhaps he does overtake and tries the spade finesse. That doesn’t go well. Did you spot the potential blockage of the diamond suit?...
...Declarer wins in dummy and takes the doomed trump finesse. West leads a second diamond for East to ruff and a heart comes back to West’s K♥....
...When West follows low, South finesses by playing dummy’s 9♦. When this holds, he can cash A♦, throwing a heart loser from hand....
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