Here is a somewhat difficult declarer problem from a recent hand I observed on BBO. You are South with the hand and bidding shown:
Opening lead is the eight of diamonds. How many losers do you have and how are you going to handle the trump suit?
You have one or two losers in clubs. After you take the ace and king of diamonds you may be able to ruff a diamond loser or two. After you win the ace of hearts you may be able to ruff a heart loser or two. Spades look like they can come in with no losers if you get the likely 3-2 break.
Since it looks like you are going to have to do some ruffing of red suit cards, maybe you should not get in a rush to draw trump.
Say you draw two rounds of trump. Now you can ruff two heart losers in hand. That would get you to 10 tricks as long as the ace of clubs is onside.
It looks best to ignore trumps from the get go. Cash the ace of hearts at trick two. Ruff a heart. Cash the king of diamonds. Ruff a diamond. Ruff a heart. Ruff a diamond. You are almost assured of 10 tricks.
The hand will make five spades against perfect defense. It’s a nice double dummy problem. Here is the entire hand if you would like to give it a try:
Declarers who drew three round of trump went down one.