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"TWELFTH
NIGHT"
BRIDGE NOTES
CHOOSING THE BEST
PLAY
By The Four Aces
It would have been very easy for South to choose a losing line of play for the slàm he had so neatly bid, bụt he managed to steer clear of dangers:
North, Dealer
Neither side vulnerable
▲ A 4
AK Q 18 6 оказа
* 10 &
THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 31, 1940.
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a plece of crashing
her
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diamond.
4 Q 10 5
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prized
the floor.
AKJ 9 8 6 3 2
♡ 7 8 ◊ 10 ♣AK 7
The bidding:
North
East
South West
10
Pass
14
Pass
20
Pass
34
Pass
54
Pass
6
Pass
Pase
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WEDNESDAY,
South took the opening club lead with the club Ace and thought first of leading out the Ace and King of trumps. If the
SIM CARD VARNIS
OF THE
could.
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Ignore
china
ANSWER: Bid one
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cheapest response and dres not guarantee any particular amount of high-eard strength. Το bid no-trump, because of the hand's weakness, is to force any further Exploration to a higher level -- just what is most undesirable with a weak hand.
Score 100% for one diamond, 30% for one no-trump.
Question Nɑ. 602
To-day you hold the same hand, FOURAGES YVETEN trump Queen fell, but the opening bid is different
he ‘ACE
inish
Scheurlem Butastene **Tom Javoby KING....2 drawing trumps
10
Paes
(7) then QUEEN 1| und
easily
What do you bid? (Answor JACK!.... take the slam with dummy's top hearts. But he saw in time that if the trump
AVERAGE MAPED OTS
Queen
Thursday.)
(Released by The Bell
failed to fall, the slam cate, Inc:) would depend on getting a very good heart break. Since. as a matter of fact, the hearts were not. well distributed, South was very
wise to reject this play. EXACTLY
The play which next occurred to South was to take the club King, ruff the low club, cash the trump Ace and then run the top heart's. If two rounds of hearts
got by safely, the slam was home; for he could discard the losing diamond on the third heart and
then could afford to give up a
trump
The only flaw in this play was the order of the tricks, There was no reason to ruff the club before cashing the Ace of trumps. So at the second trick, South led a trump to dummy's Ace and then returned a club to his own King. The next step was to ruff the low
8th January, at 5.30 p.m. club; and when East discarded,
THURSDAY,
1940 on the Company's Deben- 9th January, of 5.30 p.m.
tures, at the rate of 7%
per
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31st December, 1940.
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South congratulated himself on his effective precaution. He then laid down dymmy's high hearts, dis- carding the losing diamond on the last. West could ruff if he liked, but couldn't win another trick.
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Schenken's partner and, with nei-OFF THE RECORD
ther side vulnerable, you held:
#J 9 6 4
♡ 8 6 OK.Q.9. 3 #Q 10 5
The bidding: Schenken
1
Barnstone You Jacoby
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| 2nd January, 1941.
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