Why Did I Not See This 22 Years Ago

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Dealer: East
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: Rubber
  1. spade—
  2. heartA Q 8 7
  3. diamondA Q 10 8 3
  4. clubA 7 5 2
  1. spadeQ 9 7 5 3 2
  2. heart6 4 2
  3. diamondJ 7 4
  4. club8
club diamond heart spade NT
N 6 5 6 - 3
S 5 5 6 - 3
E - - - 2 -
W - - - 2 -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeK J 10 8 6 4
  2. heart5
  3. diamondK 5 2
  4. clubQ J 6

Contract: 6heart
Declarer: South
Lead: club8
  1. spadeA
  2. heartK J 10 9 3
  3. diamond9 6
  4. clubK 10 9 4 3
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1spade 2heart
3spade 4NT* Pass 5club
Pass 6heart End

* what does this mean?

Declarer won East's clubJ with the king and drew three rounds of trumps ending in hand. Thinking that East could have diamondKJx, after throwing a club on spadeA, South ran diamond9 to East.

What could East do in this situation? A club lead would forfeit the trick in that suit, a diamond would allow four winners there and a spade would allow a ruff and discard. In this last case declarer ruffs in hand throwing another club from dummy and follows by ruffing out diamondK. Very neat!

As it happened diamondJ was with West, so the slam came home without complication, but ...
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