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The Sims three-bid should bo mado when the hand contains not more than three losers with a major suit as trump, or two losers
Amoy with a minor suit as trump. The re first suit named is the suit at which Bombay the final contract must be played. Calcutta
Canton
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of the king of hearts marks West i with the ace of hearts.
All the declarer has to do is to trump the first heart trick, take, three rounds of trumps, and four should respond, first, when holding rounds of clubs, winning the inst the ace of trump, with four spades, club in dummy, then lead the queen Not holding that ace, but holding of hearts and discard the losing any other ces, he should bid his eight of diamonds. This gets rid highest ace first. But when not of your loser and eliminates the holding a single ace, as in to-day's necessity of taking a Anense. hand, his proper response is three! Now Weat is forced to lead a no trump.
diamond Into the neo-queen. If he Now, when South bids four clubs, leads a heart, the declarer will he is making his partner if he holds tramp in on hand and discard the the king of clubs, Holding the losing diamond from the other.
king of clubs, North's proper re- sponse is five clubs. South's bid of five diamonds is asking, for the kind of diamonds. Without it, North simply bids five spadein.
Suppose South's holding bad; been the uca, king, and jack of diamonds. Ils had alrendy located the king of clubs and would now like to know about the queen of diamonds. After North's bid of five spudes, denying the king of diamonds. South would bid six dia- monds, asking for the queen.
If North held the queen, he would bid seven diamonds and the final! contract would have been seven apades.
In today's hand, South has shaded his three-bid a little, but it acoma rather justified, due to the fact that, if he can locate the king of clubs and the king of diamonds, he has a possible grand slam. Só II do not criticize South for shading
his bidding.
The Play
The play of the hand is not dim- cult. Still, a careless player would fail to make his contract. It looks! us if South has two losing dla- mands, because, when the seven of diamonds is led from dummy. East will play the ten.
But why worry about finossing. the diamond? The opening lead
Today's Contract Problem
South in pinying the con. tract At six spaden. Lost opens the jack of diamonds. How should the land be played to make the contract?
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