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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1933
CONTRACT BRIDGE
By W E. MoKenney
The choice between suit and no trump bida is one of the oldest points of argument in bridge.) Experts have held violently, di- fferent opinions since the first days of auction, and these differ- 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 neglara-i tion lies in the ability to ruff the opponents' winning cards with emall trump. The ability to ruff depends not only on long trump but on uneven distribution in the other three suits..
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June to Jona 23 June 29 July 4
A deal having even distribution in both declarer's and dummy's hands will generally produce just as many tricks at ne trump; and should normally be played at that declaration.
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The Bidding To-day's hand was played in duplicate.
South and West passed in all cases, but North's first rid 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 naning a biddable suit. If possible.
However, the one ever one play- ers recognize in the North band an ideal one no trump bid. Besides
having distributed strength and even distribution, it had the gren' advantage of holding tenaces in three suits and a remote tenace ir the fourth. so that any lead Eas! might select would be likely to cost him a trick.
Nearly all of the approach bid ders plaved the hand at a spad declaration because of the excel lent spade support held by South
The one over one bidding was North one no trump, South two ne trump, North three no trump.
The Play
East's natural opening against a no trump contract was the deuce of spades, since that soft had not
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firat 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 sce of Clubs and they 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 if West should ever be in the lead he would almost certainly play a diamond.
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One North player 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 defenen 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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The declarer immediately took 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 wisely refusing to play dia. mands, East returned another club, which was won with the king in dummy and a small heart- returned to North's king.
East realized that if he refused to play the ace of hearts,... he would be thrown in with it later and the diamond lead would te unavoidable, therefore he took the
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