[nige1]

Franco Baseggio describes this beautiful ending in his Squeeze Topics series on BridgeWinners.
South to lead at No-trumps and make 2 more tricks,

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[pilowsky]

That's very neat Nige1
I hope you don't mind, I used my Samsung tablet to help solve it - I hope this is the right answer

[AL78]

Play the ♠K. If West throws the ♥A, cash ♥2. If West throws the ♦A, overtake and cash the ♦2. If West throws the ♣A, play low, then throw East in with the ♣2, who has only a spade left to lead to North.

Is it realistic for anyone to identify the possibility of such a situation in real time and play for it?

[pilowsky]

I doubt it. It took ages to glue the little cards onto the blocks for starters.

[nige1]

 AL78, on 2020-June-25, 02:58, said:

Play the ♠K. If West throws the ♥A, cash ♥2. If West throws the ♦A, overtake and cash the ♦2. If West throws the ♣A, play low, then throw East in with the ♣2, who has only a spade left to lead to North. Is it realistic for anyone to identify the possibility of such a situation in real time and play for it?

Well played Pilowski and AL78. For the full deal, see http://bridgewinners...eeze-what-else/. As you can verify, declarer succeeded at the table, even although the actual play was more complex, requiring what superficially appears to be a practice finesse

[sfi]

If you want a few more of these, you can try Coffin's great 88: http://www.rpbridge.net/8g01.htm

I'll leave it to you to work out if this ending is in there (I had a quick look but it didn't jump out at me).

[FelicityR]

I hazard a guess it's some form of entry shifting squeeze but I usually guess wrong

[Cyberyeti]

 FelicityR, on 2020-June-25, 08:55, said:

I hazard a guess it's some form of entry shifting squeeze but I usually guess wrong

It's solved above, it's a nice little squeeze where when W has to discard on K♠, he has to pitch the club or you're just solid, whereupon you simply lead your club as a stepping stone and E has to give you the other spade.

[mythdoc]

I dare say no one not playing with the cards face up has ever gotten to the last three tricks of a hand where all the aces and two of the kings have yet to be played. Of course, those Aces could be queens or kings and the squeeze position would still work. Bridge is a fascinating game.

[nige1]

 sfi, on 2020-June-25, 04:20, said:

If you want a few more of these, you can try Coffin's great 88: http://www.rpbridge.net/8g01.htm I'll leave it to you to work out if this ending is in there (I had a quick look but it didn't jump out at me).

Hugh Darwen's amazing Double Dummy Corner https://www.doubledummy.net/ is even more challenging.