East-West vulnerable. South deals.

East-West vulnerable. South deals.
NORTH
A 8 4 2
Q 7 6
3 2
Q J 10 8
WEST EAST
K Q J 10 9 6 5 3
10 9 J 8 4 3
10 9 8 6 4 Q J 5
9 7 6 4 Void
SOUTH
7
A K 5 2
A K 7
A K 5 3 2
The bidding:
SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST
2 Pass 2 Pass
3 Pass 4 Pass
4NT Pass 5 Pass
7 Pass Pass Pass
Opening lead: King of
Sometimes, we must look at life the wrong way up. Here's what its like at the bridge table.
The auction started with a game-forcing two clubs and a waiting response of two diamonds. After clubs were bid and raised naturally and Blackwood elicited the information that North held the missing ace, South contracted for the grand slam since North needed some other values as well to move beyond three no trump.
West led the king of spades and South was reasonably satisfied with the contract. If hearts were 3-3, 13 tricks were laydown. That was also the case if trumps broke 2-2, since declarer could ruff two red losers safely.
Declarer won the opening lead with the ace and immediately ruffed a spade low in hand. When declarer led a trump to the queen and East discarded a spade, declarer was forced into another line.
A spade was ruffed high, declarer crossed to the table with a heart and another spade was ruffed with South's remaining high trump. A trump was led, declarer taking the marked finesse of the eight. Trumps were cleared, South letting go of a card in each red suit, and the A-K of hearts and diamonds took the last four tricks. In all, declarer scored four trumps in dummy, three spade ruffs in hand, the ace of spades and four red-suit winners -- 13 tricks in all.
You'll find this technique under "D" for dummy-reversal.
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