This might be the most beautiful hand I’ve ever seen. I came across it while reading one of the old bridge books in my collection (Test Your Play as Declarer by Paul Lukacs and Jeff Rubens), and was bowled over by the solution: the pure logic of it came as a sort of epiphany. Forgive me if you’ve seen the hand, or a variation of it, before — but if you haven’t, I hope you find, like I did, that your mind has entered a higher dimension. Cover up the East/West cards:
West leads the ♦K to East’s ace. East returns a trump to your ♠Q, West showing out. Assuming West started with seven diamonds, how would you proceed? Amazingly, this hand isn’t a matter of weighing up the odds. It is guaranteed, against any distribution.
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