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By ELY CULBERTSON
Economy Of Honours
Mr. Culbertson is conducting, through this column, an examina- tion of bridge players. Rate your- self by subtracting from 100 the points for each wrong answer. Yesterday's question was:
You, South, hold:
What
S-A 10,8 H.-K J 10 8
D.-J 4 3
C.-A K 9
call do you
make
over
TO-DAY'S HAND
Question 45: You are East, de-East's one heart bid? . fending against a four heart con- tract, reached on this bidding: South
West North
East
1 heart Pass 2 hearts 2 spades
4 hearts Pass Pass
Pass
Your hand and dummy are--as
follows:
NORTH [dummy]
S.-6 5 2
H. Q 10 8 4
D.-7 8
D-A 6 4 2
EAST
S.-A Q.9 8 7
D.-K. Q.9.5
C.-K 10
H-3 2
West leads the spade jack. What
pard do you, East, play?
South, dealer.
. Both sides vulnerable..
NORTH
WEST
S.-K 9
H.-J 7
S.-10 8 5 4 H.-Q-10.6.3.2
D.-J
C.-J 9,5
EAST
S.--J
H-A 98574
D.-AK Q 10643 D.-9 7 5 2 [C.-—K 7 -
C.-8 3 2
SOUTH
S-A Q 7 6 3 2
H.-K
D-8
C.-A Q 10 6.4
The bidding:
South West
North
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Answer: You should play the 1 spade 3 no trump Pass
or at any rate 4 clubs 4 diamonds 4 spades Pass nine of spades, should fail to play the ace or queen. Pass Pass Your partner's lead of the jack West's first overcall was, of showed that he had fewer than course, an effort to steal the game four spades, since with that num-]by camouflage methods. ber he would have led fourth best. The defeat of the four spade con-comic situations. Declarer's king, therefore, cannot tract was a triumph for partner- be blank. There is no reason to ship confidence. West opened the suppose that partner's jack was a diamond king and, when his part-1 ingleton. If you play the ace on ner played the deuce, West had the jack, declarer, who very likely such perfect faith in East's judg- started with the K-10-small, willment that he did not even consider have a finessing position against continuing with diamonds. He your queen and, thus, will lose only knew that East was a careful one spade trick instead of two. This player who thought before he Is simply an example of economy followed suit. Hence, that dia- of honours. [Two points demerit mond deuce was not merely a for playing ace or queen of spades casual follow-suit card, but a dis- to the first trick)..
TO-DAY'S QUESTION
tinct warning. More than that, it conveyed the idea that East could stand a shift of leads. With sub- lime faith, West shifted at the se- Question 46: Rubber bridge. You cond trick to his low heart, East are South, not vulnerable. Oppon-won, and declarer later had to con- ants are vulnerable. The bidding cede tricks to both of West's black Las proceeded:
West North East. South
Рава Pass
1 heart
kings.
Obviously, any other lead at the second trick would have been fatal.
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