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BRIDGE NOTES
Playing For The Contract
By The Four Aces
When played in a tournament, to-day's hand was mode only by the player who safeguarded contract:
South, Dealer
Both sides vulnerable Duplicate Bridge
AK 10 7 4
♡ J 7
OK 7 6 6
♣ J 10 4
5 2
AJ 6 3
♡ A K Q 9
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FUR
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The bidding: South
A 9 8 7 2
10 8 6 3
2
8 4 3
JA
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North Pass 3 A Pass
Bust
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THE CARD VALUES OF 776 FOUR-ACES SYSTEM
Acr KING..2 QUEEN 1 JACK...Y
A game contract was reached at only three tables and the bidding diffl- culty should have convinced the three Declarers that they could carn a Rood score without mäk ing overtricks.
But two of them fell by the
In wayside.
each case West
of
opened the hearts, and South ruf red the second round. But one Declarer made the mistake drawing three rounds of trumps West got in with the club Queen to lead another heart, punching out dummy's last trump, and then West still had two established hearts to take when he regained the lead with the club King.
The second Declarer drew only
the Are and Queen of trumps, properly though, but then led a diamond to dummy's King to take the club finesse. West won with the Queen of clubs and returned the Queen of diamonds. Then nothing could stop
West from making a diamond trick as well as the inevitable heart and two clubs.
The successful Declarer drew two rounds of trumps with the Ace and Queen -and then cashed the club Acn! A low club allowed West to win, but now no defence could defeat South. A heart re- 11271 would give South eleven tricks and a diamond return by West would be taken by dummy, and East's last trump would be drawn. Then another club would be conceded, and South get the
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Saturday you were Oswald Jacoby's partner and, with neither side vulnerable, you held:
Q 4 3 ♡ J $
O A Q 6 6
A J7 G
The bidding: JACOBY Schenkên
Pass Pass
You Maler 10 Pasa (?)
ANSWER: Bid three clubs. It would be unwise to bid no-trump yourself with so little in the un- bid suit, but your jump in clubs shows the strength of your hand and indicates that you lack the spade strength necessary for no-trump.
Score 100 per cent. for three clubs, 40 per cent. for two no- trump, 10 per cent, for three no- trump.
Question No. 601
To-day you are Howard Schen- ken's partner, and with neither side vulnerable, you hold.
J 9 6 4
8 5
OK Q9 3
Q 10 6
The bidding:
Bebanked
Burnetobe You Jacoby
Раза (?)
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