[Terry_Gao]

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South is on lead in a ♠ contract, in need of 4 out of the last 5 tricks.

He can achieve this goal by leading ♥9 and west has to pitch a ♣, then north ruffs, and leads ♣5, if east plays low, south ducks to west, pitching a ♦, and has west endplayed, if east puts up ♣K, south ruffs, and exits with ♦5, either east or west will concede the last 2 tricks.

Does this interesting end game have a name, or is it a variant to a known end game?

[FelicityR]

I hazard a guess here that it is some form of "Winkle Squeeze". Though someone more experienced than me will probably correct me on that

[Terry_Gao]

 FelicityR, on 2019-August-28, 21:44, said:

I hazard a guess here that it is some form of "Winkle Squeeze". Though someone more experienced than me will probably correct me on that

Agree. Some variant of winkle squeeze, as described in wiki, in which a trick is offered to the defenders but whichever wins the trick is then endplayed. Often one defender would be forced to offer a finesse or ruff and discard while the other could overtake and thereby promote a trick in that suit for declarer.

[gszes]

guard squeeze (west has to shed a club) followed by winkle

[Lovera]

 Terry_Gao, on 2019-August-29, 20:37, said:

Agree. Some variant of winkle squeeze, as described in wiki, in which a trick is offered to the defenders but whichever wins the trick is then endplayed. Often one defender would be forced to offer a finesse or ruff and discard while the other could overtake and thereby promote a trick in that suit for declarer.

Interesting: the 9♥,3♠,10♥ are in the same way as 9♥,A♥,10♥ and the difference is the trump card in S.(Lovera)