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CONTRACT BRIDGE
By W. E. McKenney
Today's Contract Problem
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Solution to Provious Contract Problem
Does it ever pay to devinte from the established rules of a system of bidding? Yes, this must be done occasionally to produce. best results.
Fox example, take to-day's hand. South has five and one-half high card tricks. He has nino certain tricks at no trump, and 10 if a diamond is opened. To open this hand with a bid of two no trump would be foolish, as it might be passed by partner.
The rules say that an original bid of three no trump shows every suit doubly stopped and only four-card suit-in other words, It is a hand heavy in high card tricks. According to the rules, therefore, we do not hold either a two or a three no trump bid here. The rules also state that to make an original two bid, your hand must not con- tain more than three losing tricks in the majors or two losing tricks in the minora,
However, I will be frank to say that if I held the South hand I would be inclined to open the con- tracting with three no trump. To open with two clubs, the response that you can expect from partner is two no trump. Then the oppo- nents might lead through your king of diamonds and you would lose game. With your opening bid of three no trump, there is no lend that the opponents can make that will defeat your contract.
However, when this hand was..... denlt, South opened with two clubs, his partner responded with two
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trump, and North bid our clubs. South went to five clubs. The bid- ding in my opinion, was very bad,
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but the declarer made up for it by playing the hand well,
The Play
West opened the queen of dia- monds, Enat won with the ace and returned n diamond. South won with the king and then led the ace of clubs. He had lost a diamond and still had two losing spades.
- Declarer now realized that his only chance to make his contract was to got into dummy, so he played the acp and king of hearts and then led the eight of clubs, West showed out, discarding a spade, and the nine was played from dummy.
This deliberately was granting East a club trick, but it was the only way that the contract could be made,
Enst won the trick with the ten. When ho returned a diamond, the declarer tromped with the jack of clubs and then led the four of clubs, winning in dummy with the soven.
He then led the queen and jack of hearts, discarding his two losing spades. and ninde his contract of five clubs with 100 honours.
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