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JACOBY
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Even the Experts Forget About Bids
BY OSWALD JACOBY
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T least once a year I come out in print with the state- ment that the average
ployer forgets all about the bidding as soon as the play begins. Just in casc that average player thinics I'm picking on him, I'm happy to report that experts are Bome- times just as bad. For example, here's a hand in which two ex- perts forgot the bidding.
for from lond, and I think I YOUR BIRTHDAY.... By STELLA untucky),
my hu-
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Не to SCA.
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20
& ORIENTAL something I could not hear.
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East's bid of three no-trump was, of course, the old mullar- key. If spades were led, he could expect to take a spade, six dia- monda (unless he were
wind then maybe whatever happened to be lying around loose.
If hearts were led, East might not do
no- so well at three trump-particularly if North won and returned a club. (East couldn't tell that his partner had stoppers in hearts of clubs). In spite of the danger, East was willing to play three no-
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18, dumma ko. Aulaja e ciência, BASI
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 22)~-
Be co-operative and helpful, Try being peace-maker if there
are differences between friends.
LIBRA
times in his career, And It's always based on a long, solid sult (usually a minor). So when tries such a bid an opponent
that expert against an expert, should wonder only, "Does the rascal have clubs or diamonds?"
However, when this hand
Was played
In a national tourna (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)-ment in England recently, West It. you want something done forgot about what his partner's mcent. He right, do it yourself. Don't sit bld undoubtedly on the side lines and snipe. Be should have realised that the three no-trump bid was based helpful.
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and A dia- mond opening lead would have been the normal course. Against that defence South would have béen helpless. He would have lost two diamonds, a spade, and
club.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) Avold too much excitement. It .all will work you stay calm, out well.
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Insanity. Either he's right or he has a rare senac of humour.
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But, as we have said, West forgot what the bidding menat. He led the jack of cluby. This gave South the chance to make his contract.
South won in his hand with the ace of clubs and ran three rounds of hearts at once in order to get rid of a diamond from dummy. Then he led a trump,
East took the ace of spades, ashed the king of clubs, and then returned the deuce of diamonds.
Right here is where South should have remembered the bidding. It should have been absolutely clear to him that East had solid diamonds anything) for his bid of three no-trump. And if East had solid diamonds, what was he leading a douce on the first round of the
suit?
doing,
If South had asked himsel those simple
he would questions, have come to the only sensible conclusion; and he would have put up the lack of diamonds. That would have won a rather surprising trick.
But South also forgot the bid-
POCKET CARTOON ding. He played his low dia-
JEWELLERY.
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Londen Keyren Service
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mond, and West was ablo to win with the ten. By this time, of course, West
fully awake. After winning with the ten of diamonds, ha led another club, and gave his partner a ruff.
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