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                             ♠        A Q 6 5 2

                             ♥        J 10 9

                             ♦        A Q 10 3

                             ♣       3

          ♠        K 10 8 4 3                      ♠        9 7

          ♥        7 4                            ♥        6 2

          ♦        K 4 2                           ♦        J 9

          ♣       K J 10                           ♣       Q 9 8 7 5 4 2

                             ♠        J

                             ♥        A K Q 8 5 3

                             ♦        8 7 6 5

                             ♣       A 6

The opponents have got off to the best safe lead of a trump..

An initial count of winners comes to 9 by way of 1 spade, 6 trumps, and 2 Minor suit Aces.

You need to therefore generate three extra tricks and you will have to go for the 75% chance in Diamonds and play for split honours and also ruff a Club in dummy, the short hand.

You can afford to play one more round of trumps before ruffing a Diamond in dummy.

As the cards lie, the trumps now broke, so you can take the Diamond ruff any time. So while you are in hand, play a low Diamond to the 10 which loses to the Jack.

When you immediately regain the lead in hand do another Diamond finesse and  when West turns up with the King you can claim

You make 1 Spade, 6 trumps 3 Diamonds 1 Club and 1 Club ruff.

You can also watch the following movie to see how the hand pans out. To view this programme you will need  to download htttp://www.haroldschogger.com/bridgevu.setup

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