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South successful today’s woody was Polish World Champion Katarzyna Dufrat. She recovered herself successful a mediocre slam aft a highly competitory auction that forced North to marque a cardinal determination astatine a precocious level. North made the assertive prime and present Dufrat had to play it.
She won the opening bosom pb with her ace and led a nine to dummy’s 10. This won, but East’s discard connected the ace of clubs was a disappointment. West’s opening bosom pb was surely a singleton, truthful Dufrat could beryllium reasonably definite astir the distribution. She discarded a diamond connected the ace of spades and ruffed dummy’s remaining spade, cashed her 2 precocious diamonds, and led a nine to West. She ruffed the forced spade instrumentality and started to tally her clubs. This was the presumption with 1 nine near to cash:
She cashed her nine and discarded a diamond from dummy. East was finished. Whatever East discarded would let Dufrat to instrumentality the past 2 tricks. Beautifully played!
