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CONTRACT
BRIDGE
By W. E. McKenney
If games and slams were bid on- ly when they could be made gainst the best defence, contract would lose much of its thrill. A player who never bids more than the cards guarantee is far too
conservative, for he falls to allow for the human element. Good de- fence is difficult, and the most akilful opponents sometimes fall short of perfection.
Probably the most interesting hands in the game are those in which the declarer kas overbid slightly, and requires just a little help from his opponents to make the contract. Here we find a true battle of wits, with the opponents trying to discover the perfect de fence which will beat the contract, and the declarer doing his best to conceal it from them.
The Bidding
To-day's hand was played in a rubber game, with North and South vulnerable. East and West not vulnerable. South opened with one heart, West passed, and North bid one spade, preferring to make A one-over-one force rather than to assist the hearts immediately. East bid two diamonds, South two hearts
hearts, and North four which closed the bidding/
The Play
West opened with the eight of diamonds in response to his part- ver's bid, and East won with the king. South unhesitatingly played the ning of diamonds to the first trick. carefully concealing the three. The eight was presumably
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West's highest diamond, so the ed clarer knew that East' could im- mediately mack him (South) with the queen and nine. To play the three at this point would expose the fact that he held at least three diamonds,
East followed with the ace of diamonds, on which South played the queen and West the six, and this, gave East n difficult guess. The fall of the cards indicated that South had no more diamonds, and that West held the missing three spot, for if he held 8,6,3 orl ginally be would play them in that order. A careless East player might have led his singleton spade, hoping West would have the nee jand return the suit for a ruff.
However, a moment's thought about the bidding woukl make it clear that South minst hold the ace of spades and five practically solid hearts, for otherwise he could not have opened the bidding and then re-bid his heart auit. In that case the only trick remaining for East and West would be the king of clubs, and that would not be suf ficient to defeat the contract.
There also existed the faint por- sibility that South had false-card- ed in the diamond sult, and West's singleton heart was on honour that could over-ruff dummy. West grasped this possibility like a drowning minn at a straw, and it proved to be the actual situation. He was later able to make his king of clubs, thereby defeating the con- tract one trick.
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