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The card won and the slam was home
 NORTH’S
4S rebid showed a flat hand. with a singleton club, for example, he
would rebid 4C - a splinter bid, agreeing spades and showing club
shortage. North’s Roman Key-card Blackwood response showed two aces
and the trump queen. How would you play 6S on the heart king lead?
 You must seek to avoid two
diamond losers when the suit breaks 4-1. Declarer won the heart lead,
drew trumps in three rounds, and ruffed a heart, eliminating the suit.
He next cashed three rounds of clubs, eliminating that suit. He then led
the two of diamonds from his hand. West played the 3 and dummy the 5!
This card won and the slam was home. If East had won with a singleton
diamond honour, he would have been endplayed, forced to give a
ruff-and-discard. If instead East had won with an honour from Q-J-10-4,
he would have had to exit with another honour, won with dummy’s king,
and declarer could then have picked up the rest of the suit. On the
actual layout it would make no difference if West had inserted a high
diamond on the first round. Declarer would duck in dummy, endplaying
West. The contract was cold, however the diamonds lay.
— David Bird
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