An elegant end play.
Bridge Column for September 10, 2000, By HARVEY BERNSTEIN
Neither side vulnerable.  South deals.
                              NORTH
                              S: 10 9 3           
                              H: Q 7         
                              D: A K 6       
                              C: J 10 9 3 2 
            WEST                             EAST
            S: Q J 5 2                       S: 6 4          
            H: 8 5 2                         H: 10 6 3     
            D: 10 8 4 3                      D: 9 5 2             
            C: 8 4                           C: K Q 7 6 5   
                              SOUTH                         
                              S: A K 8 7 
                              H: A K J 9 4  
                              D: Q J 7     
                              C: A        
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                  SOUTH    WEST    NORTH    EAST                  
                   2C      Pass     2D      Pass
                   2H      Pass     3H      Pass
                   3S      Pass     4D      Pass
                   4NT(1)  Pass     5C(2)   Dbl
                   5D (3)  Pass     6H(4)   Pass                  
                   Pass    Pass
        (1) Roman Key Card Blackwood for hearts.
        (2) One key card.
        (3) Do you have the queen of hearts?
        (4) Yes.
     Ralph Katz of Chicago (formerly of Youngstown) reported this
deal from the first round of play in the Spingold Knockout Teams
at the recently completed Summer North American Bridge
Championships in Anaheim, CA.  Although Katz's team advanced to
the next round and ultimately finished in a tie for third place
in this prestigious event, their opponents found a pretty line of
play on this slam deal. 
     North-South bid to the excellent heart slam.  After Katz,
sitting East, doubled the Blackwood response, West led the C8,
and declarer won the ace (dummy and East played low). 
     Declarer was concerned about the possibility of clubs being
6--1, so she played three rounds of trumps ending in hand,
crossed to the ace of diamonds and  called for the jack of clubs.
Katz covered and South trumped. Dummy was reentered with the king
of diamonds and the club ten was played.  Katz again covered and
declarer trumped with her last heart.  West discarded a diamond,
and this was the position:
                            S: 10 9 3
                            H: Void   
                            D: 6
                            C: 9
              S: Q J 5 2                 S: 6 4
              H: Void                    H: Void
              D: 10                      D: 9
              C: Void                    C: 7 6
                            S: A K 8 7
                            H: Void
                            D: Q
                            C: Void  

     Declarer now played the queen of diamonds, eliminating
West's last non spade, and continued with the ace of spades, and
then a low spade. West won the queen of spades, but was forced to
concede the last two tricks.  Bidding and making six spades was
an incredible result on this hand.
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