[kgr]

Scoring: IMP

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Bidding (EW silent excecpt for DBL of East):
1D-2C
2NT-3NT-(DBL)
P-RDBL

(could be that DBL asked for Club lead)

Play:
1: ♣J lead and North can hold his Q
2: ♠J for Ace of East
3: Small ♣ for Ace of South
4: ♦ to ♦A in North
5: ♠9 for Q and K
6: ♠ return for ♠T of East for -1

The situation at trick 6 (defence made one trick):

Scoring: IMP

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Double dummy this makes on a squeeze.
Shouldn't an international player not have found this?

[temp3600]

Declarer has several possible ways of setting up a ninth trick at trick 6 : 1) the diamond finesse, 2) playing West for the ♠10 (10xxx - AQ or 10xx - AQx), 3) playing East for ♠AQ10(x) and the ♦Q.

Declarer went for 2).

I find East's double aggressive. From declarer's point of vue, East has already shown ♣K10xxx and the ♠AQ. He probably needs the ♦Q for his double, but the bidding suggests that card will be poorly placed in East's hand. (Again, I think the double is very optimistic.) Declarer seemed to believe that East had it, and was right. Does he need the ♠10 too? Are the poor club suit and the likely badly placed ♦Q enough indication that East holds AQ10, and not simply the bare AQ? Tough decision...

[inquiry]

Placing the diamond queen is easy, placing the spade TEN as noted above is difficult. But three rounds of hearts to see what EAST plays (and to get a count) might be useful.

Someone wanting to punish EAST might try a heart to the ten. Now, 4H, 1S, 2D, 2C and EAST still has a vulnerable diamond stopper, a spade guard, a club guard. It could get ugly.

On the last heart, dummy plays a club and EAST? If a spade, spades run. If a diamond, diamond run. I could see a spade discard and pain would follow quickly in a redoubled contract. But either way, there is a reasonable shot at an overtrick.

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But the cash hearts, cash spade KING, enter dummy and throw EAST in could have been found, but if you play EAST for 5♣KT, the diamond queen, and the spade AQ, you almost have to figure the heart JACK with WEST for the initial pass and with clubs 5-2, the heart hook seems reasonable too boot.

[Fluffy]

just to note that this is a redoubled conrtract, going only 1 off can be very important