The European Bridge Championship has been a regular annual feature since 1956, which has been organised at different capital cities in Europe. The competitions in Europe have added new countries in the list of bridge teams, which encouraged them to participate in international bridge events.
With more European teams groomed to play in international bridge contests along with Italians, British and French teams, which used to dominate in sharing bridge honours in the world bridge competitions. The interesting development in European bridge championship was that it was open to all countries in teams and pairs bridge events. The idea behind inviting other non-European countries was to add experience and knowledge of the contemporary game to improve bridge standards.
In the European pairs championship held in 1995, a match was played between the pairs Dutch and Indonesian pairs. The proceedings of the match were marked with tough competition, which ultimately the Netherlands won by applying superior technique of play. That interesting deal, is reproduced below with complete set of bidding and play in making a slam in hearts.
West led spade three
This deal was played by the Indonesian pair in the European championship in 1994. The declarer was L. Spier of Holland, who bid six hearts as shown and found a very unusual line of play to succeed in making the slam.
Spier won the spade lead with the ace and drew three rounds of trumps, discarding a club from dummy. He then cashed the ace of diamonds, on which East showed void. The East's original distribution thus became an open book - he had obviously started with seven spades, three hearts and no diamonds, and therefore had to have exactly three clubs. The good news was that dummy's clubs could be established by playing the A-K and ruffing a club; the bad news was that there was no visible entry to dummy to cash the good clubs.
One possible approach to the play was for South to cash all his trumps and the king of diamonds, forcing East to come down to four cards. If East discarded down to one spade and three clubs, the rest would be easy. The spade deuce would put him on lead and forced his club return into the A-K-J would hand declarer the contract. The trouble with this was that if East came down to two clubs and two spades, South would have to guess whether to play the A-K of clubs to drop the queen (if East had it), or to finesse the jack (if West had the queen).
Spier solved the problem in a brilliant fashion, finding a sure way to produce 12 tricks. At trick six he led a club to the ace, then cashed the king and discarded the king of diamonds on it! A club ruff established the suit, and the diamond three was then led towards dummy's J-7.
West took the queen, but since he had only diamonds left, he had to return one. This allowed Spier to dispose of his two spade losers on dummy's good clubs and made a slam in a brilliant card play.
NORTH-SOUTH VULNERABLE:

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North          West          East             South
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S 64           S 3           S KQJ 10875     S A 92
H 42           H 87          H 963       H AKQJ 105
D J 75         D Q 1098642   D --            D AK 3
C AKJ 875      C 1096        C Q 43             C 2
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THE BIDDING:

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South          West          North             East
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2 H            Pass          3 S                4 S
6 H            Pass          Pass              Pass
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