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THE HONGKONG· TELEGRAPIL THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1932.
CONTRACT BRIDGE.
By W. E. McKenney,
Secretary. American Bridge League.
LADIES' NIGHT AT ·
THE Y.M.C.A.
ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMME
ARRANGED.
The Inst of a series of entertala. ments-entertainments that have proved the most popular of the different forms of recreation instituted nome years ago by the Y.M.C.A.-takes place this oven- ing in the now theatre lounge of the Institute at Kowloon.
There are several systems for valuing hands at no trump, but perhaps the most popular is the
These entertainments, known an pitch count system which was ex- plained in our previous articles. "Ladies' Nights" have permittel An opening bid of one first hand Y.M.C.A. Members to entertain shows a count of 13; second band their lady friends to dinner on the A count of 12; third hand 14, and premises, the dinner usually fol fourth hand 15. Partner should lowed by some novel recreation- a concert, a dramatic evening, or support to two no trump with other form of diversion. combined count of 22, and to three j
of 24.
of
no trump with a combined count; The programme arranged for this evening is as usual, of very
standard, comprised Under the straight forcing sya-high tem, however, it is not advisablo vocal and instrumental items by to open harde with one no trump local artistes and two one-act that contain a biddable four-card plays, the one a comedy, the other suit, especially if the hand con- a drama, by the Y.M.C.A. Drama- The many patrons tains a werk doubleton. In other tic Players. worda, an opening bid of one no of these special evenings can look veritable treat, for trump normally shows distributed forward to n strength and no biddable four. It will be remembered that the card suite. Four-card suits in or Dramatic Players were extremely der to be biddable must be at least popular during the winter season a strong as uce, queen, nine. 10 of 1930/31 when they established themselves by producing the first or king, queen, nine. 10.
plays of a series from their re- pertoire.
In addition to the count, a hand should contain at least two quick tricks to open with one ro trump, while in auit bids you are required
to hold two and one-half quick GEN., MA · CHAN-SHAN. tricka.
Original Suit Blds of One. Original sult bids of one are made when holding at least a bid- dable four-card suit and two and one-half high curd tricks, All writers have their favourite high card trick tablen, but the simplest one advocated by the writer is na
follows:
A K of same suit
AQJ of same suit
2
1
1
I
A of aume suit
K of same suit
K of same suit
QJ of same suit
Only one Q J may be counted in
n hand.)
1/2 1
A Q (if bid) A Q (if not bid)
You will notice that the Inst three valuations have restrictions. Only one QJ must be counted In a land as one-half quick trick. When holding a hand containing two Q J'a, the other is too suscep- tible to squeezes when being play- ed at a suit declaration, but on practically every hand that you would hold two and one-half tricks, if both Q J's were counted, you would have an original no trump bid. QJ's should not be counted in suit bida if the hand does not contain an ace, but they must be counted in a no trump hand.
You will also notice that the writer advocales an A Qas only one trick unless the suit is bid. If you hold a biddable suit headed by AQ and a side trick, you may count your A Q as one and one- half, or if your partner bids a suit and you hold A Q in that suit, you may value it as two tricks. While if it was bid by your left-hand opponent, it should he counted as only one trick. If your right-hand opponent bid n sult in which you. held the A Q, you would count that As two tricks.
The reason for not valuing an A Q when not bid as one and one- half tricks, is because so many times you may be called upon to make the opening lead and as we do not like to lend away from an A Q. sometimes an opening lead very detrimental to the hand Is made in an endeavour to protest the AQ suit.
While opening bids of one ure required to hold two and one-half high card tricks as a minimum, there are many hands containing as high as five to five and one- half quick tricks that must be opened with one due to a bad dis- tribution. Opening bids of one should not be passed by partner If his hand contains at least one and one-half tricks. This feature will be explained in our next ar- ticle.
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