Beethoven
Kreutzer Sonata: Violin And Piano
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 17, 1938.
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By ELY CULBERTSON
Informatory Double
Mr. Culbertson is conducting, North opened the heart jack. You through this column, an examina-must win with dummy's singleton What card do you then lead tion of bridge players. Rate your-[ace. self by subtracting from 100 the from dummy, and what card do you points for each wrong answer. play from your own hand?
Yesterday's questions were: Question 41: Both sides
vulner-
able. You are South. The bidding
has proceeded:
West
North
East
1 spade
2 diamonds Pass
South ?
You, South, hold:
S.-6 4 3, H.-7, D.-K J 10
9 8 6, C.-Q J 9.
TODAY'S HAND Match point duplicate. South, dealer.
Both sides vulnerable.
NORTH S.-Q.6.4
•
H.-9 2 D.-Q J 10 3 2
C.-K J 10
WEST
pass.
A S.-9 2
What, call do you make?
Answer: You
should
double-would-not-be-conventionally H. 8 7 5 4 3 for penalties. It would be a con- D.-K 6 4 ventional takeout (informatory) [C-8 6.5 double. Obviously you dare not invite your partner to bid. Hence, despite your strength against
the
two diamond bid, you must, at least temporarily, hold your peace. (Two points 'demerit for any call. other than pass.)
1
EAST
S.-A J 10 8 3 H.-K J 10 D.-9 7 C-7 4 2
SOUTH S.-K 7 5 H.-A Q 6. D.-A 8 5 C.-A Q 9 3
East
The bidding: South West North
Pass 1 diamond 1 spade Question 42: Both sides vulner-1 club able. You are South. The bidding 2 no trump Pass 3 no trump Pass
has proceeded:
West
1 spade
South East North
? 3 spades Double You, South, hold: S.-Q J 2, H.-3 2, D.-7 4 2, C.-A K Q J 4.
What call do you make? Answer: You should bid three no
Pass
Pass
The South player, who deliberate- ly chose to open the bidding with lone club, "fixed himself" badly by that strange choice. Obviously, one no trump was the perfect opening bid.
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The opening lead of the spade
AT THE ORIENTAL “Sanders Of trump. You have a stopper in the nine was ducked all around. Now, The River", with Paul Robeson, and continuation, Leslie Banks. A real thriller based on adversely bid suit and a solid five on the spade deuce card suit of your own.
Your dis-East shrewdly. read that if he again the Edgar Wallace stories. tribution is such that you cannot be ducked he probably would lose his sure of making five clubs. Hencé ace and, at match point duplicate, four one trick more or less would mean there is no reason to bid clubs, thus going past the three no a big difference. The spade trump level. (Two points demerit winning, the heart jack was for passing; one point demerit for turned. Declarer finessed doubling or bidding four or more fully, entered dummy with a club, and finessed diamonds. West hav ing the king, the hand then was spread for four odd.
Declarer could have recovered his Question 43: You are West, dé-bidding error by a super play at clarer at a three no trump contract, the very first trick. That was to in rubber bridge. Your hand and put up dummy's spade queen! East dummy are as follows:
clubs).
WEST
TODAY'S QUESTION
S-J 8.4.
H-K Q 6 2 D.-A K 4 ∙C.-A 10.5
S.-A. 5 8.
H.-A
-success-
would have been helpless. To win EAST (dummy) with the ace would mean that he never could regain the lead. To permit the queen to hold would con- DJ 10 9 7 2 cede declarer a second spade stop- C-7 6-3 2
per.
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