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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1959.

Jet there faster JACOB

by

on BRIDGE

WEST

NORTH

634

24

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AJ87653

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CHINA MAIL BRIDGE SCHOOL

Making the best of a bad job

THERE

into

by FREDERIC LEWIS

are times when you just cannot help getting bad spot. When South saw the dummy hore, he began to reach for his choque-book.

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SOUTH

VAB3

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Q102

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East and West vulnerable

East South West

1

Yan

Pass

PARK 14

North

JN.T. Doublo Pass Рака

Opening lead❤ 7

TW

WENTY-FIVE years ago the was weak jump overcall known 05 a Jacoby because I was about the only player who Later on young Alvin used 41 Roth and young Tobles Stone adopted it as part of their system and today it is used by about half of our top players.

The bid will always be con troversial because it is definitely intended to produce swings and does produce them one way or the other with great frequency

North's three club bid is example of the weak jump over call at its weakest. His neck was stuck out further than the pro-

onl

verbial mile but he wasn't vul nerable.

South had a good hand and decided to increase the gamble by a three no-trump bid und West doubled instantly.

North sluck by his guns and passed. Weak overcallers always have stout bearis. South stayed there also and won the opening heart lead. There was no point holding off when the diamond sult was wide open.

The queen of clubs lead came next. West ducked quickly. South thought awhile and took the finesse. When it worked he had his contract. Had it lost, he would have been down five.

♥+CARD Senses

Q-The bidding has been: East

14

Bouth West North

?

You, South, hold:

SAQTSYAE Q10 2 4 Q42 43

What do you do?

A-Double. You sto almost strong enough for a eno bid but not quite.

TODAY'S QUESTION

Your partner responds one diamond. What do you do now Answer on Monday

CHESS

by LEONARD BARDEN

Here is problem by G. Heathcots (Observer, 1934). White to play and mate in three moves.

Solution No. 5729; 1 K1-87, QxQ: 2 P-87 ch K-KL2; 3 KI-K6 ch. Rx Ht; 4 P-B8 (Q) mate.

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Double

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10

E

No Bid No Bld Double

All pat

One heart might have been safer gambit on the South cards, but he didn't fancy his

high suit.

A spade was led and East won with the king. Then he made mistake. He led back the queen of clubs, holding in A. Q. J. 2 A grateful clubs South took a surprise trick with his lone king.

The queen of spades waS allowed to win the next trick, but a third round lost to East's ace, all following suli.

The opponents had originally held four clubs each, and these were now cashed, leaving West on play. West, an excellent de

Jed fensive player,

the 2 of hearts.

24 STILL THINK

WORLD IS FLAT

Is one of those things through

П

barrage

of

and South will still lose a dia-: mond.

" Declarer's best bet is to hop right up with the ace of hearts, TT and follow with the queen. 111 that people joke about. scoffing to be the only orgn- Fast has the doubleton king of Even on the Hit Parade nisation of its kind left in hearts he will have to lead there is a song that makes the world. diamond and give South a good

fun of it. chance for his contract.

But, quita con- That what actually hap❘fidently, Samuel Shenton, pened, and on the diamond agod 56, says: "There return South copfidently played still an organisation which the 10, forcing out West's king

and making his doubled contract believes the world is flat."

with one club trick and two tricks in each of the other sults. Better defence would have set the contract by two tricks a least, and South was certainly lucky. But he kept his and played intelligently.

head

for

REFRESHER TIP The week's brush-up beginners gives come examples of rebiddable suits,

First, muits that are long and strong enough to bid twice:- AKJ6, AJ 10 8 7, KJ 10 9 8.

Next, suits that you can bid three times and partner will know that you have a good six- card suit:-- It is vital to notice that West. K J 10 9 0 4, AQ 10 8 7 0. who has not removed his part- KQJ980. ner's penalty double. and is Although technically rebid- therefore marked with some dable.

sults ke A 9 7 0 2, strength. has not at this point KQB42, Q10073 are rela- played a diamond.

tively weak, And it is better to very look for some other feature in

The inference must be

strong therefore that he holds your hand, if there is one worth this king, and his partner the mentioning. It will often be

South choice of evils. Remember that other red king. So it plays the heart finesse and it it is the small cards that count; loses, he will come a cropper: the stuffing. East will win and return a bearl,

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by ❀ * Jacky Mendelsohn

Age 322.

Today, in England, there are 24 members who pay 48. year subscription to secretary Shenton.

It is the almost-secret, HE PHONED thought-to-be-defunct Intèr- › national Flat Earth Society "It's not difficult to find which quietly but deli- campaigners for anything berately has marched on in Britain," it said in a story about a man who spent a fortune on dogs. "No one would be surprised if there was a movement in support of the flat earth theory."

Mr Shenton phoned in al- most immediately..

HEAVEN OF HEAVENS

THE PIT

MOTHER EARTH

SKY

SUN

MOON

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GANISATIONS

MOTHER

MR SHENTON'S WORLD

WE'RE STILL LEArning Stuff about EgYPT IN GEOGRAPHY Class

(ONLY NOW Egypt is Getting Very Modem, & People Have ALL the latest inconveniences LIKE TELEVision, Cars,] AIROPLANES etc

"Well, here we are," he said. "But it'e not a theory. A theory is what you be lieve in. What we say is a fact."

His society believes that the world is a place at the bottom of one of several pits in what it calls Mother Earth, which is a flat plain

ESYPT

A

FRICA

©19.59 King Features Studicate ing. Work rights Reserved.

for inSTANTS Egyptian PEOPLE

Used to Be

REAL SKINNY

faLWAYS Stood Side- ways.BUT now They Don'Tany more, but Stand Like Regular People

Egypt is also A VERY Histerical Place ona COUNT of LOTS OF HISTERICAL PEOPLE CAME FROM THere Like for instants King Tur,& also Cleo PATRA, who later Got Bir TO DEATH BY A Wasp

(OUCH)

TUT. TUT.

The Nile

River

•

MR SHENTON It's flat, he says

so large that it is endless like space.

Separating the world from the "outside" is a solid ice barrier, Nether the world nor Mother Earth ever moves,

"When you travel round the world and arrive back at the same place," said Mr Shenton,

It is like walking avund the edge of a plate,"

The society believes that the sun and moon, are very shall-w the su nixut 32 Illes diameter.

Said Mr Shenton: "I began ba believe in a flat earth in the 1920's."

-(London Exprent Service).

EGYPT USED To Be a very old COUNTRY The People KePT on Living The Same WAY Like Their AUNTS Sisters Did Hund- reds of YEARS ago

OLD

Egyptian

New ESYP- Tian

10-18

no Swim Ming Aloud

They also own The Biggest River in The World, which is Called The Nile, Only You BETter NOT go Swimming in it cause it's FULL OF CROCKErdiLes falley GATORS.

and AN Other Thing Egypt Got the biggest in THE WORLD Of is a Dessert, which is called the SAHARA DT WOULD MAKE a REAL good BEACH... Except You'd have To Bring Your Own WATER

This Looks Like a good

SPOT

Water

Here is some Stadistics

QBOUT ESYPT:

CAPITAL... CAIRO

Population. Lots of Egiptians

Attitude... SEE LEVEL

MEAT TEMPerture. Yes

EXPORTS

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