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West opened the king of hearts, and South began his maneuvers by refusing the first trick. One heart trick had to be surrendered in any case, and it was safe to lose this trick to West, who could not afford to attack diamonds.
For lack of anything better to do, West continued with the deuce of hearts to dummy’s ace. Now declarer made his next move to keep East out by leading the jack of spades from dummy. East covered with the king, and South won with the ace. South ruffed a heart in dummy and led another trump. When East played the seven, South took a deep finesse with the eight.
UNIMPORTANT OVERTRICK
This deep finesse happened to win, and South could draw the last trump with the queen and run the clubs to get rid of a diamond. South made five, but the overtrick was unimportant. South could not lose his contract. If West had started with the 10-9 of trumps he could have won the second trump trick with the ten. But then all the trumps would be out, and nothing could stop South from running the clubs to get rid of one diamond.
This would assure the contract. If South made the “normal” play of the queen of spades on the second round of trumps East would ruff the third club with the ten of spades. Then a diamond lead through the king would defeat the contract.
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