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This must be the week of the double-squeeze - they seem to be appearing all over the place at the moment! In the position shown declarer plays A, ruff a club, so what does East throw? Naturally South has to read the diamonds correctly, but that was always the case even if declarer had taken the two-way (thankyou James) diamond finesse for his twelfth trick!

This particular variety is one of the awkward double/compound squeeze positions where declarer has to decide quite early which defender has abandoned which suit, purely because dummy also comes under pressure when South cashes the long trumps
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