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By W. E. McKenney
Bolution to Previous Contract: Problem
Don't think just because you have a winning trick in your hand, that it always is safe to cash 16in to-day's hand the declarer throws West in the lead, granting him a good trick and leaving him with another good trick.
Before cashing that good trick, Weat should stop to reason why South has let him in to make those two tricks. Of course, the answer is that South, the declarer, wishes to get a squeeze on the East player and has no squeeze card of his own; so he deliberately throws West in the lead, in an endeavour to get him to squeeze his own part-
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.The bidding is normal and West's natural lead ls the eight of spades. A small spade is played from dum- my and East wins the trick with the king.
He returns the douce of spades, West wins with the ace and returns the ten of spades. A club is dis-
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carded from dummy, East discards a club, and South wins the trick with the jack,.
South canhos the ace of hearis and then leads the sight of hearts, West's queen dropping. Dummy wins the trick with the king. A small diamond is led, East playing the ten, and declarer finessing the queen which holds the trick.
The drop of the queen of hearts by West marks East with four hearts. The fact that he went up on the diamond marks him with probably the king and jack of dia- monda. It, looks as though it is impossible to make the contract. But South, the declarer, decides to try to squeeze East; so he leads the seven of spades, which West wins with the nine, a small club being discarded from dummy. East has to drop the elght of diamonds.
If West makes the mistake of cashing his six of spades, which, of course, is a good card, a small diamond will be discarded from dummy and Erst will be squeezed. If he lets go na heart, both hearts in dummy will be good, while if he lets go a diamond or a club, those cards will be good in the declarer's hand.
Whichever cards East releases, the declaror will squeeze him in that suit, and the contract of three no trump will be made. This play la known as the suicide squeezo.
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