NEIL HAYWARD BRIDGE

Recommended Line: You have four losers. If you win at trick one, and draw trumps, they might be able to discard informatively on the second round of trumps, allowing them to find the switch to a diamond. That will lead to defeat.

You need to nudge them into a misdefence. Try this line: win the first trick, and lead a heart to the ♥T. West wins, and is quite likely to try to cash a club.

You ruff this, draw trumps, and unblock the top hearts in your hand, hoping that they break 3-3. If so, you cross to a spade on table, and cash the thirteenth heart. A losing diamond goes away. Ten tricks. If Shakespeare had been a bridge player, he might have said: “Oh, what a tangled web weave,” hoping it would be taken as his own. *