The road home

Today’s woody is from a lucifer betwixt a squad from China and a squad from Trinidad and Tobago. At the different table, the declarer for Trinidad and Tobago made 4 hearts aft the pb of the ace of spades.

The Chinese declarer astatine this array got the ace of diamonds pb followed by the queen of diamonds. He won with dummy’s king and ran the queen of clubs to West’s king. South ruffed the diamond continuation successful hand, and cashed the ace of clubs, seeing the 10 autumn from West. This was the position

South led the 9 of clubs, ruffed by West and over-ruffed with dummy’s queen. The defence had to prevail from this point. If South ran the 9 of hearts, helium would person to ruff a spade to get to his hand. East would pb different spade erstwhile helium got the pb and South would person 2 trump losers. Should South overtake the 9 of hearts with the 10 and currency the ace, East would person 2 earthy trump winners. The winning play successful the fixed presumption is to pb a debased bosom to the queen. East volition triumph but tin bash nary damage.