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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1935.
CONTRACT BRIDGE
Solution to Previous Contract Problem
By W. E. McKenney
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I received a peculiar letter lu the mall the other day. A woman wrote and asked me what was the best defence against a seven bid. BANGKOK
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Against good players there gen- DOMBAY erally in no defense. Seldom docs DALCUTTA a good player bld seven with the CANTON new scoring unless it is practically CAWNPORE KUCHING a certainty. However, generally the only chance you have of de- DELH fenting a grand slam is to make a HAIPHONG fine opening.
A difficult situation for the de clarer to handle is a lead away from a king, if that suit has been bid by the player to the left of the
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opening leader. When this lead in made, the declarer la going to be confronted. Immediately, with the problem as to whether to take the finesse.
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Under no circumstances should DE VALERA'S ESCAPE you lead away from weakness, be-j Cause you are likely to lend right Into a tenace position.
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Let's take to-day's hand. North! has shown, by his rapented hidding of clubs, that he does not have a fit in hearts or spades. Therefore, a heart or a spade opening might The heart lend should be he good. selected, not because it is the long-platform on which he stood cei- est and strongest suit, but because lapsed and threw him and thiryat It is going to put the declarer up men and women to the ground. to a guess immediately.
If you lead the nine of spades, as was the lead in this hand, the de- clarer will read it for the top of nothing and refuse to finesse.
This hand was sent to me by C. E. Dougherty of Mt. Lebanon, Pa. It is a hand he selected from recent duplicate match in Pitts- burgh.
The Play
Without a spade opening, de clarer would be put up against a guess as to whether to take thei heart or the spade finesse, but with a spade opening, he is pretty sure that East does not hold the queen: therefore, he goes up with the ace He cashes the ace of hearts, Icada three rounds of trump, discarding a spade from dummy, and then plays a heart, finessing the jack.
When it holds, the king of hearts. is played, followed by the king of spades. A small diamond is won by declarer with the king. Now Bother trump is played and 11 pade discarded from dummy,
At this point the declarer is down to a spade, a diamond, and a club; the dummy has two dia- monds and a heart; the opponents. ench have two diamonds and one high major suit card.
The last trump is fed and first East is squeezed. He must protecti
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the beurts, so he discards a diu- mond. Dummy's heart is thrown and West is helpless.
A spade discard establishes de| clarer's seven, while the diamond discard gives dummy two diamond tricks.
Today's Contract Problem South playing the re- West tract at xix no trump,
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