[zenbiddist]

So this hand came up last night in a Sydney tournament:

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6♦ South
On the ♠K lead..
On a club lead..
Which lead breaks 6♦ by North? The only guy to bid the slam made it on that lead. So what did the opponents need to do to beat it?

Cool hand

[Cyberyeti]

6♦ by N on a heart lead is interesting also if they lead another heart when in with the club (Overtake Q♦ at trick 2, draw trumps and play a club).

Declarer ruffs a club and rumbles all the diamonds leaving:

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and the 2♦ executes the double squeeze.

It appears a spade switch when in with the club breaks this up.

K♠ lead v 6♦S:

A♠ and ruff one, ♦ to Q and ruff another then rumble the trumps leaving:

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Now you cross to a top heart and exit with the spade.

On a club lead, you have to switch to a spade, if you switch to a heart the double squeeze above works.

[ahydra]

I must be getting better at this game - I saw that there might be a double squeeze involving spades as the common suit but couldn't figure it out exactly.

In the second case (squeeze-endplay) the problem I've got atm is envisaging layouts where the squeeze works - for example on this hand you have to assume West has 5+ spades and the HQ if you want the endplay to work, and I find myself just stuck thinking "fails if spades are 4-4, perhaps there's something better" (such as the rather ordinary heart finesse).

I recently bought Love's seminal book on squeezes - much recommended for any who haven't read it btw. Hopefully this can help me move from "hmm, I can sort of see that a squeeze might work" to "yep, you do this and it works".

ahydra

[nige1]

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[nige1]

Pretty problem zenbiddist!
Simplified version

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