| Solution: Start by winning your ♦6 with the ♦A and then returning
the ♣4. Ruff this with your
last trump and play the ♠8 (this is very important it cannot be the
♠5). Everyone is down to just
spades and you need only one more trick.
If West wins the first spade trick then your ♠K is guaranteed to
take a trick so assume West plays the ♠6 in an attempt to not win the
trick. You now play North's ♠2
forcing East to win with the ♠Q or ♠J (now you see why it was
important to play the ♠8 and not the ♠5 and it is also important
that even if West covers the ♠8 with the ♠9 you still play low
from North). If East returns the
♠Q or ♠J (whichever one they kept) you cover with the ♠K,
if East returns the ♠7 you play low.
Either way West will need to win this trick with the ♠A (the
first scenario he obviously needs to cover the ♠K, in the second
scenario if West doesn't play the ♠A then North will win the ♠10). Now the final trick will be won by either
North's ♠10 or South's ♠K depending on which of the above
scenarios takes place. |