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ΠΟΥΡΑΣ CALCUTTA
To-day's hand was sent me by CANTON
CAWHPORE Fred Rodell of the Yale University
CEBU. School of Law, Rodell and his colouso partner, William Parson, by bid-DELM ding bravely and by giving the HAIPHONG opponents a chance to make a mis- HAMĖURG take, made their contract.
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While the bidding might be HONGKONG RANGOON
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CANTON termed a little optimistic, the play was thought out carefully. West's for busiame transested..
Cament Asente opened opening lead was the queen of spades. Rodell could see that, Deposit received for one year or sherter COLOMBO be discarded on the ace and king while two losing diamonda could perioda a rate which will be quoted o of spades, the opponents could! cash the ace of diamonds and thei ace of clubs.
Of course, if both the missing aces were held in one hand, there would be no chance to make the
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contract. But Rodell well reason- ed that, if the aces were divided, he might give his opponents chance to make a mistake and thereby make the hand.
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So, instead of discarding
from dummy. losing diamond which certainly would cause his opponents to lead diamonds as soon as they got in, he decided he would try to make his opponents believe that he held strength in
concealing diamonds by strength in spades.
his
Ho did not take the first spade trick with his ace or king, but ruffed it in dummy with the four
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of clubs and then returned the have gone down two tricks. But king of cluba, which West had to it was well worth gambling on going down an extra trick to win with his aingleton ace.
There still-was-a-trump-in make the contract, dummy. So West did not con- tinue the spade auit. The ques- tion for West to docide was whether to lead a heart or a dia- mond.
Hearts had been denied by South in the bidding. Diamond strength had been shown not only in the bidding of no trump, but also in the play.
While some may say that West's judgment was wrong, nevertheless he decided that the best possibility of defeating the contract was to lead a heart through dummy's ace-jack.
The heart was led and now," of course, the hand could be spread for six odd.
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Today's Contract Problem Gouth has the contract for hid West has six hearts. spades, bat opens the queen of diamonds. Which is tho safest way for South to play the hand to make his con- tract?
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