Plan your in play in 6© to  try to make all 13 tricks  

On this hand from the OK Bridge site you end playing 6© which is a particularly easy contract considering you have an initial count of 12 tricks without doing any work at all – 3 Spades, 6 trumps 2 Diamonds and 1 club but can you eke out a 13^th trick for all the Match Points.

You might think you could chuck a Diamond loser on the third round of spades and then establish the suit but there is one slight problem – you will not be able to get back to them as you don’t have another entry to dummy.

Since we have exactly 12 tricks on top, the hand is ripe for a squeeze. In squeeze play you need to be one trick short of your target figure - if the player who has three Diamonds also controls the Club suit then we can squeeze that player.

With this in mind we take the first trick and cashed all the Hearts and Spades, At trick 10 East is caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. If he continues to guard Clubs he will have to release a Diamond and then all the Diamonds will be good and if he releases the other top Club then dummy’s Jack is high.

 You can also view  watch the following movie to see how the hand pans out. (You need bridgvu.exe programme  or BridgeBase programme on your machine already to view it ) and it is available free from   http://www.haroldschogger.com/videos.htm

 alternatively watch the film www.haroldschogger.com/movies2.htm