To make your contract, you will need to score a third Spade trick, but before playing Spades, you must take that ruff in Dummy, and draw trumps.  So your sequence of plays starts like this:

            Win the Diamond in Dummy

            Draw two rounds of trumps (West shows out on the second round)

            Cash the ♦A

            Ruff a Diamond in Dummy

            Ruff a Club

            Draw the last round of trumps

So far Declarer has done just fine, getting the Diamond ruff in Dummy while at the same time minimizing the chances of an overruff.  The enemy trumps are now gone, and it’s all down to the Spade suit.  The ♠Q is finessed and let’s say that it wins the trick, the defenders following with the Three and the Four.  What next?  What are the alternatives and which one do you choose?

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