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CONTRACT BRIDGE
Solution to Previous Contract Problam
By W. E. McKenney
THURSDAY,
JANUARY 3, 1935.
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Contract is an enjoyable pna timo until somebody deals you h hand like the one South has to- | day, and then your troubles begin. AMRITSAR I was watching a rubber bridge | BANGKOK game in one of the New York clubs BATAVIA recently. One of the women at CALCUTTA the table WOA dealt the South CANTON hand.
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Now when you are playing for LOMO money, what more could you nak) HAIPHONG than
a hand full of Neer And } HAMTURA kings? The woman started
think and ponder. You Could almost read her mind,
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The rule of some systems do not open with a two-minor sult bid, if you have more than two losing tricks in your hand.!
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Opening lead♣ 7
Then the book of another system, says, if you hold four and one- half to five quick tricks and pro- bable
in your own hand, make a two bid.
game
Evidently the woman decided to use the latter course, herause her (original bid was two clubs and, of course, she got the saturat response of twi no dump. What else could North bid? There were not many high cards left for him;
no
Interest allowed a Current Aremenita. Nepalis pervived for fred period at rutes 10 be obtained un atpilention,
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After the two по trump bid. there was another long study and Anally he came out with six no trump. When asked afterwards why she bid six no trump, after
a second spade finesRG her partner's bld of two trump, denying any strength, she contract. answered. "I remembered reading a bridge book which sald that from seven to seven and one-half quick tricks would produce slam. 1 had seven and one-half quick tricks, so there must be a slam in the hand-and -I-hid it."
The Play
The opening lend of a diamond, of course, is won in dummy with the king. If the declarer tried to drop the clubs by leading that | Bult put, of course, the contract is defeated. The proper play of the hand is rather simple.
After winning the first diamond trick, a small club must be led
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play the jack. Now, regardless of what East does, the contract is made.
If he wins with the queen, the declarer still has an entry in his hand with the nine of clubs.
Of course, as soon as the de-
clarer gets in again, he must tead the jack of spades, not a small spade, and if East refuses cover, the ten in played from dummy, which gives the declarer
to
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Today's Contract Problem:
Four Braden is the contract by North. Eunt opens the king of hearts. What line of defonso will give declarar the feast number of tricks? With this defense, how must de- elarer play the hand?
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63 +10
A 10 8 7 42
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Desler
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Solution is next large.
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