For Christmas this year I am giving you a double-dummy problem. Too generous, I hear you cry — but better than another pair of socks.
DD problems are usually found in books: specially constructed deals where you get to see all the cards, and then have to work out how to make your contract against best defence. Occasionally they pop up in real life, like the hand below which occurred in a regular Monday night duplicate at Young Chelsea. Deep Finesse, the program that analyses the deals for the hand records, seemed to think that South could make 3NT but North could not. The first hurdle is to find out why that is so, the second to work out how to succeed from the South hand. If you like puzzles, cover up the solution, pour yourself a festive cuppa and try to solve it.
Good luck! (See diagram).
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