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6, and dummy’s king wins. Your best bet is clearly to find West with Q, in which case it can be finessed. But if you finesse and East wins Q, a spade return might make life distinctly uncomfortable.⇓
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Here is the full layout:
Both the diamond and spade queens were poorly placed, but the resourceful declarer wrapped up two overtricks, without the defenders doing anything wrong.
South realized that if the Q was onside, it didn’t need to be finessed. He would happily lose the first round of diamonds to West’s queen, as that would leave the spades doubly protected.
So at trick 2, he led a small diamond off the dummy! One can hardly blame East for playing low: it would have been ludicrous for him to go in with the queen, when it was so likely that declarer was about to win A and then finesse the diamonds back to him. West won the diamond ace and played a second spade. Voila – 11 tricks.
It would have made no difference if West had ducked the diamond: South, knowing who held the queen, would have played to the king next.
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