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Suitably assisted, one defender has known which suit to attack to gain sufficient tricks to defeat the contract. Now let’s move to trump contracts. South is in four spades. West leads the heart ace.

South looked at his beautiful spot cards in the spade suit and found a solution. South did not play the ace of spades at trick one, rather playing low and allowing West to win the trick.

South should win the first trick with his club ace and lead a spade to the ace (not vital, but it will save an undertrick if spades are 4-1 and the defender with one spade has at most two diamonds).

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If NS have 8 spades here, remaining 7 cards are with EW. Thus, EW too have a fair bit of trump possession and they can look to make good use of their trump power.