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BRIDGE NOTES
WELL BID SLAM.
(By ELY CULBERTSON) Vi
trumps separately, by means cross-ruffing, Declarer could see
of AMBITIOUS
RUSSIAN
SCHEMES
| only twelve tricks as absolutely
certain..
For the thirteenth trick there'
were three definite possibilities.
One line of play would be to play Harnessing the Warm
Gulf Stream.
TO MELT SIBERIAN` SNOW
Helsingfors.
Famous Composer Passes
He
Wrote Lyric Which Made for the diamond suit to break 3—3,
Fortune For Others. thus setting up the two long · dia- There is nothing particularly] having more tricks than the need-monds in Dummy, This, due to the
HELPED JOHN MCCORMACK spectacular or remarkable about ed.
Opening lead of the diamond ten this hand. It merely shows intel-
A GUESS?
which appeared like a shortsuit.
London. ligent bidding which allowed the It is the theory of several of the lead, was immediately discarded
A vast scheme to transform the
The man who wrote "I hear you no by Declarer as being two danger- partnership to reach a practically leading experts that there is
calling me," the song which sev lay-down Small Slam. After all, such thing as an absolute guess for ous. This left the choice of auninhabited and barren wildernesses John McCormack, the famous there are only about two or three a really fine player during the club or spade finess, and this of ice-bound Siberia into a fertile tenor, on the path to fame, has died' hands in an evening's play which play of a hand at Contract Bridge. choice had to be made immediate garden by diverting a warm ocean in London at the age of 51. really provide fireworks, and most These Individuals contend that is, as, If a hand is to be cross-
He was Mr. Harold Lake. of the evening is devoted to con from either the bidding, the early ruffed, the high-card winners must stream, has been evolved by a Rus-
alan engineer.**
wrote his lyric-in 20 minutes and tracting for normal games and play, the distribution, the type of be cashed early in the play. ↑
One must admit that the Declarei According to reports, from Rus-sold it for three guinene. slams as well as part-scores.
defence put up by the adversaries, The hand is also an instance of or even he emotions shown by them. had pretty close to an absolute sia, the authorities are seriously the safeguard afforded by th such as signs of distress, a good guess at this point. He knew that considering the project. four no-trump convention, which player should be able to make some whether or not Weat held the spade kept the partners out of a Grand sort of deduction which will in King he would not have opened ned to make Vladivostock-at pre- As "Harold Harford," Mr. Laks Slam contract which they might dicate the winning line of play to that suit, and that his choice of Ment ice-bound for three months in first began writing lyrics when he very well have. bid had they not him.
diamonds rather than clubs might the year-navigable all the year was assistant master in the Choir
round.
School of Westminsters Abbey. known that their opponents held an I agree with this to a very great indicate that he feared to lead away
To be from a high honour in the latter Tsushima Stream flows by way of Betty Brown,"
A warm current known as the His first lyric was "The Ballad of Acc.
extent but not entirely. slightly facetious on the subject, I suit and thus give up a trick. On Kara Sound, past the island of published.
which Boosey's would ask these expert whether, the other hand South knew that Saghalin and thence to the Sea of if the opponents reached three no- West, being very deceptive and a Okhotsk. Running in the opposite ing me."
Then he wrote "I hear you call- trump by one of the players bidding fine defensive player, would be just direction is a cold stream.
Boosey's rejected it but eventually it got into the hands of one notrump and the other Jump- the one to deliberately lead away; The engineer plans to construct a Charles Marshall, the composer. ing immediately to three, the player from a King in this situation to dam between the Island of Saghalin who set it to music.
North, Dealer.
Both sides vulnerable. North:-
S.-Q
H-A Q 5 43
D.-K Q 2
West:-
C-A J 10 B
SJ 6 2
H-~8
D.-10 6 4 2
C.- 6 4 3 2
East:--
S.--A 0 7 6 4 3 H.-J 10 2
D. 9 G CQ 7
South:-
S.-K 10 8 H.-K 9 7 6 D-A J 8 7 C.--K 6
The bidding. (Figures after bics refer to numbered explanatory paragraphs).
North East 1-8
Pass
South West
3-H (1) Pass 4-C (2) Pass 4-D (3) Pass ANT (4) Pass 6- (6) Pass Pass (6) Pass
to the left of Declarer, holding.
Spoder Hearts
KJ8 Q 7
Diamonds QJ 100 Clubs
Q J 10 9
Six weeks later its appealing sentiment had swept the world and Under the scheme it is also plan-made a fortune for others...
try to deceive the opponents, (and the coast of Siberia, thus divort-
John McCormack, then singing After five minutes' thought, in-ing the course of the cold stream and for a few guineas an engagement cluding a mental loss of a coin, De making the warm stream wash the happened to hear the song, liked it clarer finally decided on the club snow-clad coasts of Siberia. finesse because, as he explainedj
Another Russian engineer named
and sang it.
Boosey's published should open a diamond or a club, I afterwards, "West looked like the Andreje wants to harness the Gulf it and it was an instant success- contend that either lead would be type of person who held the club Stream in the same way. At pre- Reuter.
the result of an absolute
guess. King."
sent the Gulf Stream warme the
Of course this is an unusual in- Was this winning decision a western coasts of Europe but en- stances wherein a player has very guess or a brilliant bit of deduc counters a cold sea stream off the Zemlya and the Siberian mainland. ittle to go by and must rely pure- tion? Whatever it was, South, coasts of Scandinavia.
Then the Gulf Stream will warm ly and simply on instinct.
after having won the club finesse, Andrejeff, thinks he can eliminate the northern coasts of Russia and did succeed in cross-ruffing the the Influence of this cold stream by Siberia and make barren land fit for hand to make his contract.
building dam between Novaya "cultivation-Reuter,
On the hand below the Declarer had to make a decision at trick and on which rested the success or failure of his efforts to fulfill a Grand Slam contract.
South, Dealer
Both sides vulnerable.
East:-
S.-10
D.-K J (
D.-A K 76 2
CA Q (4
North:-
S.-K 9 6 H.-5 3 2 D.-10 9
C.-K J 9 8 7
West:-
S.-J 4 3 2 H-9 4 D-Q 8 42., C.--10 3 2
South:-
S.-A Q 875
H-A Q 10 8 7
D.-J G
-South has a very good three- heart bid and is almost strong enough to bid four. The four trumps and the doubleton clut make the heart
response superior to any amount of no- trump. 2-Showing another suit on thie definite type of bidding is a Slam try. The four-club
bid aske partner to take some posi- tive action if he has more than a minimum three-heart bid. S-South responds to North's Slam
try in a positive manner. This showing of a new suit is at the refer to numbered explanatory least A mild acceptance
of paragraph). Siam try and, of course, is in South West ferentially Forcing.
IS Pass 4-North, holding a very fine fit 3-H PREA with the new suit disclosed to 5NT (2) Pass him by his partner, including 7-H (4) Pass. the King of that suit, is now justified in making a four-no- trump bid. This bid shows two Aces and the King of one of the bid suits.
6 South does not hold two Aces "and even though he has the
C-5
The bidding: (Figures after bids
North East
3-D
4NT(1)
PARE PAND 6-H (3) Pass
Pass
PASE 1-The four-notrump bid shows two Aces and the King of one of the bid suits. The newly found fit in hearts Justifies North in making this bid even though
he has previously shown great strength by making a Forcing Takeout.
Kings of two of the bid suits bez-The correct response holding
cannot possibly bid five no- trump. However, since his hand fits almost perfectly with his partner's and has at least a little more strength than be bas previously disclosed, ม is justified, holding one Ace and both Kings in immediately con- tracting, for the Small Slam in | 4—South, ~ having considerably
the remaining twà Acas. North, having overbid his hand up to this point, does not bid soven hearts even though he knows his partner has the other two Aces, for there very well' might be a heart or spade loser (in the hand."-
hearts, 6-North'e pasa is now obvious. He
more than a minimum, a mild fit with his partner's diamonda knows his partner has a very and two pretty good suits of his strong hand but he also knoWI own, must contract for seven in that the Ace of spades, or pos- view of his partner's very sibly the Ace of diamonds In-strong bidding. stead, is missing. Therefore he West's Opening lead was the dia- xcannot contract fer-seven. - mond ten. Before playing a single There is nothing to the play of card from the Dummy Declarer had the hand. East opened the Ace of to decide upon his plan of play spades, and after drawing trumpa Counting his top tricks and the Declarer claimed the rest, actually possibility of making his "eight|
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