Unusual defensive play decides six diamond contract
In a bridge deal from 1943, South reaches six diamonds after a normal start. West’s counterintuitive trumping of the heart queen in the diagram allows declarer to claim the slam, while the correct defense would have given East or West the setting trick with careful trump management.
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