One of the active members of the Karachi Golf Club has a special knack of dividing his time in work and relaxation. He is disciplined man who equally enjoys hard work in daytime and recreational activity in the evening.
In his recreational activity he devotes his time for indoor and outdoor sport. He plays golf early and in the later part of the evening he plays bridge.
In a casual meeting he very proudly narrated a bridge hand that he played well in a duplicate bridge contest some time back and he still relishes the memory of his achievement. He is an average bridge player with some strokes of good play at the bridge table. One evening he and his partner played a hand in duplicate bridge, which the opponent failed to make the contract in the closed room with the same cards with the same bid for four spades.
THE COMPLETE DEAL WITH BIDDING IS REPRODUCED BELOW:
(1) A conventional bid showing positive hand with good trump support and no check in other major.
West led heart king
When the dummy was opened the South realised that he had gone overboard in bidding particularly when the West made a takeout double. He took a long time to plan his play before winning the ace of hearts in hand.
Soon he reached a conclusion that the contract could be made only if the opponents' cards behaved favourably. Otherwise there was no chance of success of the contract.
With that necessary assumption the declarer proceeded to play a small diamond to the ace of diamonds in the dummy and played the queen of diamonds from dummy and came back to hand with the king of diamonds, keeping his fingers crossed that any opponent might not ruff the suit with a small trump.
Heaving a sigh of relief, the South played a small spade on which West won the ace of spades and cashed the queen of hearts and got stuck with what to play next.
If he had played another heart he would give a ruff and discard to the declarer and if he would play the ace of clubs that would possibly leave the King of clubs off the hook, which the declarer was bound to have for his opening bid. The West hoping against hope played the ace of clubs and followed with a small club, which he thought that his partner would have the king of the clubs. But it was not so.
The declarer won the trick with the king of clubs and played two more rounds of trumps ending in dummy with the king of spades and discarded a losing club on the good 8 of diamonds from the dummy and made the contract, which the South luckily found the distribution of cards with the opponents to succeed in making the contract.
DEALER SOUTH
BOTH SIDE VULNERABLE:
========================================== North West East South ========================================== S K 962 S A S 753 S Q J 1084 H 94 H KQJ 87 H 6532 H A 10 D A Q 85 D 1097 D J 63 D K 72 C J 65 C A 1087 C Q 42 C K 93 ==========================================
THE BIDDING:
========================================= North East South West ========================================= 1 S Double 2 NT(1) Pass 4 S Pass Pass Pass =========================================
Necessary assumption is an inevitable tool for the success of the contract.