Posted 2013-December-17, 11:12
The normal line would probably be to hook the diamond Queen, play the diamond Ace (checking for Kx onside and removing that card from Dummy), and then running the spades, playing for either a simple club hook or possibly some sort of squeeze in the remaining three suits.
With the club lead, that line is gone. So, instead you are forced to hop the club Ace and then run the spades, cash the heart Ace, and hope for the diamond Kx to be onside (which would have worked anyway) or for the diamond King onside but only East protecting hearts. If East started with the diamond King plus KQJ in hearts, or the diamond King plus any six hearts, the lead forces a line that works but that would have failed on the normal line.
I think that's what happens.
Or, maybe CSG's line is better...
"Gibberish in, gibberish out. A trial judge, three sets of lawyers, and now three appellate judges cannot agree on what this law means. And we ask police officers, prosecutors, defense lawyers, and citizens to enforce or abide by it? The legislature continues to write unreadable statutes. Gibberish should not be enforced as law."
-P.J. Painter.