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If West had Q then was nothing that could be done to prevent the trump promotion so why was right to go in with J at trick four?

Without Q, and seeing the threat of dummy's diamonds, it would look much more attractive to East to cash A first before playing a third spade - from his point of view where else could the setting trick possibly come from? The "mercurial" East's failure to cash A means that South is almost invited declarer to pitch a club loser on the spade continuation - and that's why South should not! South needs the diamond finesse anyway - so why not rely on the suit for four tricks?
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