West leads the K♦ against your 6NT. You have 11 tricks if the spades are breaking with an easily established twelfth in diamonds. How do you play? |
If you win the A♦ and run the spades, you lack the entries to establish a second diamond trick. However, if you lead the J♦ now, you will be finished if spades do not break - as dummy has no good discard.
The solution is to play spades backwards or, as I call it, the Everything-Is-Okay Block. Play to the A♠ and back to the K♠. If the spades are breaking, you only need to establish a diamond. If spades are 4-1, you are now in hand to take advantage of the very favourable heart and club lie found below - with a low spade available as a discard on the J♦. 3♠+4♥+2♦+3♣ = 12 tricks.
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