THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1933.
CONTRACT BRIDGE
By W. 'E. McKenney
The choice between suit and no! trump bids is one of the oldest "points of argument in bridge. Experts have held violently di ferent since
first
ARISTOCRATS OF THE, PACIFIC ays of auction, and these differ-
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ences were by no means lessened with the advent of contract,
Certain systems insist on open- ing with a suit bid if the hand contains a biddable suit, but the one over one system recognizes the advantage of opening hande of a certain type with a bid of one no trump.
The strength of a suit declara- tion lies in the ability to ruff the opponents' winning cards with small trump. The ability to ruff depends not only on long trump but on uneven distribution in the other three suits.
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A deal having even distribution in both declarer's and dummy'a hands will generally produce just as many tricks at no trump, and should normally be played at that declaration.
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The Bidding
To-day's hand wis played in duplicate.
South and West passed in all cases, but North's first bid de- pended upon the system he fol- lowed. Players who invariably use approach bidding opened the North hand with one'spada, since their system requires naming a biddable suit if possible.
However, the one over one play.. era recognize in the North hand and ideal one no trump bid. Besides having distributed strength and even distribution. it had the grea' advantage of holding tenaces in three suits and a remote lenace in the fourth. so that any lead East might select would be likely to cost him a trick.
Nearly all of the approach bid- ders plaved the hand at a spade declaration because of the excel- lent spade support held by South.
The one over one hidding was North one no trump, South two no trump., North three no trump.
The Play
East's natural opening against a no trump contract was the deuce
of apadea, since that suit had not
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'Brst heart trick and exited with the nine spot of that suit.
North was careful to let this trick ride to the jack in his own hand, after which he led the ace of clubs and then his last heart, putting dummy in the lead. The ten of diamonds was le and finessed, but when East won with the jack, he was obliged to con- cede the declarer the last two tricks. Thus North made his three no trump contract with one overtrick.
To execute this strip and end play it was necessary to concede the first club trick to East, for-i West should ever be in the lead he would almost certainly play, a diamond.
One North olayer made four spades by exactly the same play, but most of the spade bidders failed to make game: The three no trump contract was perfectly safe and could be made by normal play against any defense. The four spade contract required fortunate distribution of cards and expert play, and even then did not equal the score possible at no trump.
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FAIL TO SEE SOUDAN
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INHALANT
been mentioned in the bidding. A PLEASING
and he was naturally averse to FRAGRANCE leading away from his diamond tenace.
& POWERFUL
The declarer immediately took INHALANT....... IN ONE! four rounds of spades, winning the last trick in the dummy. He now led a small club and finessed the ten spot which, of course, East won with the jack.
Still winely refusing to play "dia- monds, East returned another the club, which was won with king in dummy and a small heart returned to North's king.
East realized that if he refused to play the ace of bearts, he would be thrown in with it later and the diamond lead would le unavoidable, therefore he took the
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