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on dummy's right it will be played on pa the knaya, and if the irick is taken by dummy's see the ton is simosă certain to make. It may be taken as granted that the opponent holding aligher honour will always cover an honour led with that The finesse at bridge is described by the obvious intention of firewing, thus mak- dictionary sa an attempt, when seconding it necessary to employ yet a higher or third player, to take a trick with a honour to win the trick. Now, if the lower card, when a higher not in declarer has the other high cards no harm sequence with "it, is in the hand, in the can be done by taking two ponours to hope that, the intermediate card or cards win a single trick, but obviously it ia may be with the right-hand adversary," otherwise 'needless extravagance. If the For example, holding the aos and queen) ace and small cards of a suit are in the of a suit, if a player puta down the dummy, and the queen and small ones in queen to a lead to that suit, he is said the hand of the declare there can be
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opponent on his left, who plays after him, will be played by whichever opponent the trick will be lost, but if it is held bolde it, and the only trick that can be by the right-hand adversary the queen won in that suit by the declarer will bo will win the In the The only to play a
value of his hand a player would count combination is to lead a small, card of
the ace as a certain trick and the queen the suit from dummy, and if the king of that suit as a possible, and the one is on the declarer's right the queen must chance of converting most "possible." | make a trick. But this is not a finesse. tricks into actual ones is by fincasing. The declarer is sometimes in the happy! There are, of course, occasions on which position of being able to finesse a suit in is is not advisable to risk a free, Uterther hand, and when it is important Jess the declaration of an opponent has to keep a certain opponent from win- given any mdication of the probable ning a trick the finese will be taken position of the king there is an even accordingly. chance of finding it in either hand, and special reason against it the alternative But where there is no
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queen, must, in ordinary circumstances the declarer to hold the ace and small be taken; but if the left-hand adversary clubs, dummy holding a king, knave, d is known to have, in "no trumps, a long ten sad another; the kave should be led and established suit, or if for any other first and, whether or not it is covered by reason it is undesirable that he should the queen, the trick should be taken by secure the lead, it would be advisable to the ace, the declarer the leading from take no chances, and to play the ace his own hand to fines the ton The instead of the queen. It may be that the advantage of this is that the opponent declarer sees that he cannot secure the may cover the first led, the knave, and game unless he is able to bring off a thua simplify matters; and, of course, if certain nesse successfully, or having the hands were reversed, the king, kuavo, secured the necessary tricks for game and ten being in the declater's hand and the contract, he may see a chance of making ace in dummy, the chance of his doing a slam if a finesse comes off, and in such so is still greater, as the position of the cace the amount of loss if the Edesse other honours would be doubtful. This were a failure would have to be great lay, also, gives effect to a sound princi to justify him in "funking, the finesse.ple, that Whether or not a finesse should be at on the second round of a suit, Whan is generally better to finesse tempted in a certain suit depends not only possible, in the hope of "dropping the on what is known of that unit, but on opponent's card and this saving the risk the general circumstances of the hand, of a finess, but there are comparatively few cases in which the finesse, should not be taken.
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It sometimes happens that the king,. knave, and others of a suit are held in ono hand-say dummy' and only small The simplest form of finesse is the illus cards of that suit in the declarer's, and it tration just given when the ace and is desirable that dummy should win & queen are held the same hand, but trick with the king or trave as the only there are various other combinations of chance of securing a lest form that hand; cards which give opportunity for a chances of the opponent on dummy's left for it may be advisable to reduce the ful, if not as easy, finessing. These occur chiefly in the declarer's play of the curing the lead. Normally, it would be combined hands, for, generally speak correct to finesse the karo, but in this ing, the opponcats
instance it is important to win the trick portunities for judicious Encasing. There is dummy and the king should be played will be for example, the case where the first round. To play the knavo gives the opponent on dummy's left a the dummy hands holds the acer chance to win the trick, whether he holds. queca, ten of a suit, the declarer the queen or the ace, one of which he holding only small ones; here both the king and the nave are held by the probably does hold, but if the king is opponents, and the declarer must attempt holding the ace and of the king winning played there is an even chance against his two finesses. If both the king and the the trick. Daily Telegraph knave are in the hand of the player on dummy's right then all will be well, provided that the declarer can lead the suit twice from his own hand and that he finessen the ten first; if the queen in the first to be finessed then eithed the king or knave must make, unless the suit is unevenly divided The probability is, however, that one of the hostile cards will be held by vach opponent, in which case, assuming again, a normal distribution, one of them must win a trick, and the risk is the same whether the queen or the ten is first finessed. Bearing in mind, however, that they may both be in the band of the player on dummy's right, it is always advisable to finesse the ten, unless there is any reason for reducing the chances of the opponent on dummy's left, securing the lead.
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is the Englishman really changing his traditional habits? Dr. Saleeby, well- known ongenist, recently asserted that his highest hope was to see sunlight and milk substituted for beef and beer in the Eng- lishman's cred. Whatever progress may have been made towards the realisation of this dream, it is, at any rate, a fact that since 1913 there has been no less than a fifty per cent, fall in the consumption of beer at Home. To ascribe this decline to an increasing preference for sunlight and milk would be fantastic; the actual cause, indeed, would appear to be something much more proenig, namely, the excessive A frequent combination of the card's taxation, low wages, and unemployment giving opportunity for finesse is when the experienced since the War. Nevertheless, ace with small cards is held in one hand it is not unreasonable to suppose that, (say, the declarer's), and the queen, in many cases at least, habits and rea knave, tea in the other. In this case traints enforced by stern neccosity may the queen should be led from dummy, and continue to prevail when the necessity for if the king is played by the next player them no longer exists For the present, the trick can be taken by the ace in the everything favours the cause of the declarer's hand, and the kuave and ten "Pussyfoots," for it i atated that the are "good"; but if the king is not put would be consumer is unable to buy any down at once the declarer should play a but the very smallest quantity of his mall card on the chance of the player favourite beverage, owing to its price bay- on his left not having the king The ing soared beyond the reach of his pocket. knave and ten can then be led in turn, and the king, unless very well guarded, must fall. The advantage of this com bination of the cards is that the lead re mains in the same hand, and the finesse can be repeated without the necessity of taking a card of re-entry from that hand
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Sir Elgar Bonham-Carter, in' a letter to The Times, ou January 15th, on the of women, expresses the opinion that the subject of capital punithment in the case best solution of the problem would be to vest the judges with discretion upon There is another combination which, the verdict of murder, allowing them to although in fact quite different from the pass the sentence of penal servitude for above, is yet sufficiently alike to deceive life in lieu of the death sentence. He the beginner. Where, for instance, the points out that s provision to this effect dummy has ace, queen and two small is contained in the indian petal code, cards of the suit, the knavo and others and both in India and other countries boing in the declarer's hand, it is wrong where it is in force it is generally con to lead the knave unless the declarer alan sidered an improvement on the. English holds the ten, as even if the king is held law.
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