In the recently concluded Willingdon Swiss pairs tournament in Bombay, my partner from Seattle made a very nice defense.
Arvind had opened 2S (red vs white) with the spades being AKQT9x, and his LHO eventually ended up in 3NT.
I was on lead with 642 of spades and led the 2 of spades.
Dummy showed up with a void and declarer had J8xx.
Arvind smoothly played the SK and followed with the ST!
Declarer now had to guess whether I was leading from Qxx or not. If I had the Q, the correct play is to duck. If not, playing the J was the winning play.
Declarer guessed wrong, and was -2.
Very nice defense!
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