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...East won with K♣, and led a third diamond to West’s king. The case for the defence began immediately: “Both finesses wrong — as usual — couldn’t be made.”...
...West led K♠. Declarer assessed two spade losers, a diamond and two clubs....
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...“The most concerning trend is Isis-K plotting overseas.” Additional reporting by Bita Ghaffari, Polina Ivanova and John-Paul Rathbone...
...East took A♠, returned 2♠, and South won deceptively with K♠ in hand....
...“[The Paul Weiss raid] has disrupted the myth that once you have reached Kirkland, you can’t go anywhere else.”...
...When West passes, North’s forced 2D response promises nothing, but South must hope that North holds something to make game a good shot: a couple of low spades, plus K♥ or J♣ make it pretty much lay-down....
...However, if trumps split 2-2, or West holds K♣, all will be well....
...To succeed wherever Q♠ and K♦ lie, West must be stripped of a safe way of getting off lead once he wins the first finesse....
...You draw trumps: East holds both A♥ and K♥. He returns a club each time he wins....
...Declarer won K♣ in dummy, played to A♣, and ruffed a low club in dummy. Danger seemingly averted, most now played a trump, West winning....
...Lead J♣ from hand, West covers — if he does not, declarer runs the jack — and declarer wins with dummy’s K♣....
...He crossed to dummy’s A♦, and led a low spade towards his K♠, losing to West’s A♠. West switched to 10♦, taken with dummy’s K♦. Q♠ and a spade ruff in hand followed, eliminating the suit....
...On 6♥ lead from West however, dummy’s queen is worthless and East soon took five heart tricks as well as A♦ and, sometimes, K♣ also....
...South covered with K♣, and West ruffed and switched to 7♠. Declarer is committed to taking the finesse now; it lost, and East cashed his winning club. One down....
...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♠....
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