A famous Abba Song has the lines:
We just have to face it
This time we're through
Breaking up is never easy, I know…
The reader might think that refers to East-West's partnership on the hand below, but nothing could be further from the truth, as Vampyr found a nice endplay for a top on this board:
West decided that she didn't want to double and risk the ox opposite getting his hands on the dummy in Four Spades. And how right she was! 4S is clearly making, losing two clubs and a trump, and it seems that 3NT has only nine tricks. However, the defence was difficult. Jim, North, led the ten of hearts and dummy's jack won. Now declarer lost the spade finesse and the spotlight focused on North. He needed to switch to a club at this point to break up the impending endplay on South, but, as the Swedish group sang, "breaking up is never easy".
North continued hearts and Stefanie won, cashed all her spade, heart and diamond winners, and now threw South in with the fourth round of diamonds to lead into the king of clubs for a deserved tenth trick and a top.
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