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West leads the Spade King and you hold up the Ace until the third round. With only six top tricks you must develop the Diamonds. You need East to hold the Diamond King but this is not enough. You must arrange the play so that you duck a Diamond trick to East rather than West. How can you do this?

At Trick 4 you cross to dummy with a Club and lead a Diamond towards your hand. If East rises with the King, you will allow the card to win. He will have no Spade to play and your Diamonds will be good. It is more likely that East plays the nine of Diamonds. In that case you finesse the Queen, pleased to see the card win. If you play the Ace of Diamonds next you will go down because West will win the third Diamond. You could succeed by playing a low Diamond next but that would simply be good guesswork. When Diamonds break 3-2, there is no need to guess!

You should return to dummy and lead another Diamond towards your hand. If the King appears from East, you will duck. When East started with K-x-x and he plays low on the second round of Diamonds, you will win with the Ace and concede a third round to the safe (East) hand.