BRIDGE NOTES: Never ending magic

There are plays in bridge that are very simple to execute. Others are a bit complex requiring vision and farsightedness. Of course the average player takes his chances as per the human limits of the mental vision that he possesses.
But bridge is a vast terrain of innumerable possibilities and those whose comprehension is as vast and sound, quickly move into the realms of bridge expertise. Let us see the vastly different approaches that players adopt and also understand that in bridge, it's always the positional advantage that wins the day.
Suppose I played you in the east chair with the following hand:
Your opening bid in the standard system would be 2NT (20-211), playing transfers partner holding would make a 2D transfer call to show minimum 5 hearts. On your mandatory 2H, he would now bid 3NT placing south with the opening lead. Let me now give you the NS hands:
Obviously the opening lead would be the 10C, you see the obvious disadvantage that the bidding has provided to the declarer. For 10C is a killing lead. Declarer on the table found himself a trick short when he took the diamond finesse in the end after winning the opening club lead with JC, to knock south's AS, south played another low to club to give the declarer 2 club tricks along with 3 spades, the 2 red aces and KD making it 8. The declarer has two possible lines of play at the beginning when he first took the club jack to either to play a heart to the 9 hoping to find J9 or JX on side or go for the spade option and finally in reserve the diamond finesse. At the other table where they were playing the big club, it was west became the declarer in 3NT and as such got a favourable low diamond lead giving him the positional advantage of a free finesse. Now out of the heart spade options, when declarer took the right spade choice, he had little problem mustering up 9 tricks with 2 in spades, 3 in diamonds, 3 in clubs and the heart ace for 3NT to make, which failed on the other room on the club lead, when the diamond finesse failed.
But the point is there is more to bridge than meets the eye. Sitting east can you spot the winning play rejecting the diamond finesse? This is what makes bridge so intractably fascinating.
As said earlier it is all up to the mental vision that you possess and the ability to anticipate the possible ending in store. See what happens if the declarer plays back a club instead of the diamond finesse giving the defenders their 3 club tricks along with ace of spades. Do you see the devastating squeeze descending on north. To keep a 4 card ending he must maintain KJ of hearts and unguard the diamond queen. True dummy is getting squeezed too before him, holding in the end Q10 of hearts and KJ of diamonds. But the declarer sits over the defender in the final analysis and he can always keep AH and 3 diamonds. If north unguards the hearts holding to 3 diamonds, south would keep his hearts doubleton. Either way declarer is home and the magic of bridge is a never ending one.

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KQ73        842   North   South

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A9       Q10742    1076     A95

A632        KJ7     KJ5     862

KQJ          53   Q1054      98

                    642  A10987

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