BRIDGE MASTERCLASS

YOU are West in 4♥, having reached this position from yesterday’s play. South is on lead, and you must win all the remaining tricks.

IT TAKES a lot of practice and experience to be able to visualise four-card endings when you set out playing a hand.

In this case, there was the additional problem of resisting any play on the trump suit, so that you could eventually force the opponents to lead trumps for you, or give a ruff and discard.

If South now leads the ♣10, you discard your diamond and ruff in dummy, followed by ♠6. If instead he plays a trump, you pick up the suit for no losers and make the master ♦9.