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West led the singleton spade and declarer rose with the ace. Bearing in mind that East might be short in diamonds, George cashed the queen and ace of trumps before playing a diamond to West’s ten and dummy’s queen. West won the second diamond and played a third trump to prevent a diamond ruff.
Declarer placed East with spades and clubs, as a 2] bid with just ]KJ and a nine-high diamond suit seemed unlikely. Placing East with the {KQ for his bidding, George decided to play for a squeeze. He ran the remaining trumps and the }K to reach this position:
] Q 10 [— }— {AJ7
]— ]KJ [— [— }97 }—
{ 10 8 3
]53 [— }J8 {5
{KQ9
When George played the }J, East had no card to spare. If he threw the ]J, dummy’s ]Q10 would pro-
vide the tenth trick. If he threw a club, then declarer could play ace and another club, forcing East to open up the spades and concede a trick to the queen.
With 4[ failing at the other table, this board was a 10-imp pickup against the eventual champions, Sweden.
Page 8: Under-26 team Zac Ross, Matthew Sieredzinski & George Bartley, Bertie Morgan, Kate MacDonald, Heath Watkins, with Mike Doecke npc. Page 10: Heath Watkins South, Matt Sieredzinski North. Page 11: Under-21 team Jade Wilkinson, Alexis Wilsmore, Tom Langdon-Macmillan, Pete Hollands npc, Aadhi Hariharan, Adrian Le, Taydon Gold. Photos by Mike Doecke.
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