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for East is to cash merely one trump and play a diamond at trick five - this gains if the diamonds are 3-2 with North holding four trumps in a 4-2-2-5 shape. North wins with A and continues with, say, a heart, so declarer unblocks K, crosses to dummy with Q and runs the diamonds through North. When North ruffs declarer over-ruffs and returns to dummy with the last trump to finish the job. Nevertheless this line would have failed too because of the 4-1 diamond break, so ..
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