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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1932.

CONTRACT BRIDGE

By W. E. McKenney In a recent article I discussed the method of enrd valuation in the New Official System. In this article I will discuss opening bida of one in suit or no trump.

The requirements for an opening suit bid of one are governed by two factorA:

(a) Position of the bidder. (b) The number of cards con- tained in the bid sult.

The requirements for opening a five-card suit bid of one, first or second hand, are a minimum of (a) Two and one-half (24) high-card tricks in the hand.

(b) Four (4) probable tricko in the hand.

(c) A

minimum of one-half (%) high-card trick in the bid sult.

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RIDER MAIN SYSTEM.

HEALTH RETURNS.

CHINESE DOCTOR SUPPORTS THIRTY CASES OF CHOLERA

ITS RETENTION

LAST WEEK.

were

. Supporting the Chinese com- Thirty cases of cholera mercial associations' recommen- notified to the focal health au dation for the retention of the thorities Iant week. Of

there. rider main ayatom in Hongkong cases came from Victoria,

two were imported." Nineteen

Dr. L. S. Shin has written to the from Kowloon

ten Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall express-Aberdeen. Death totalled fifteen; and one from ing sentiments against the abolt-One more case was reported on tion of the rider main system. Monday from Kowloon.

were

In part, Dr. L. S. Shin's letter During the week there says that if the Government de-alaa thirtcen cases of typhoid, sires to save water by introducing one imported, with four deaths. universal moterage, Buch effort two of small-pox (from Victoria cause water rates will naturally case of meningitis; while on Mon may turn out to be a foflure be-district) with two deaths, and a be paid by the

owner of the day there was саяс of diph houses, a fact which may be taken theria. Deaths from pulmonary advantage of by occupants in the tuberculosis last week totalled 68. tonement houses. Unless a meter la installed in each floor it is dif- ficult to show the amount of water consumed by occupants in differ- ent floora,

It is only one,

Freak hands occur occasionally enormous sum nasigned by the The letter suggests that the with which a suit bid should be Government for the installation of made without one-half (4) high-the thousanda of water meters card trick, and these handa nl- should be used for the construc- ways contain heavy side strength. tion of new reservoirs.

The requirements for an open- ing four-card suit bid of dealer or second hand, are iden tical with the above requirements except that a four-card suit bid must contain a minimum of one and

one-half (%) high-card tricks in the suit named. With great side sirength, and no other biddable suit, this minimum, too, may be reduced.

a presumption, hel says, to suggest that the realdents in the rider main districts are un- willing to pay for the repair of the rider main pipes, because they have not been given an tunity to consider such i step, and Dr. Shin believes that the re- sidents would be willing to pay for the main's repair.

oppor-

The comparison between Hong- weak argument, he says, because kong and Kowloon is an equally if the officials think that it is un- fair to afford inferior treatment in the supply of water Kowloon residents why not install the rider main system in Kowloon to minke Kowloon equal to Hong- kong?

to the

The third or fourth band r(- quirements require Kreater strength, both as to high-card tricks and probable tricks with the added proviso that in the case of fourth hand bids there must be length or strength in both majors. The minimum requirements are (n) There (3) high-card tricks. (b) Five (5) probable' tricks. in the Official System the

The letter refers to the danger method of valuation for no trump of a heavy burden to the poor bids is the popular and reliable residents in the tenement houses, 4-3-2-1 count although the System where the amount of water con- permits the use of high-card val-sumed is usually great because of tions in this connexion if the proportional number of in- player chooses to use them. Alt mates. If the inmates find it im- opening bid of one 110 trump possible for them to pay the should contain a count as dealer water rates the result may be a of thirteen (13) points; as sec-dangerous situation from the ond hand, twelve (12) points, as health point of view. third band, fourteen (14) points, and as fourth hand, fifteen (15) points. In making original Trump bids the hand should con- tain no singleton or worthless. doubleton, the hand should con- |tain no sound major suit bid and should have stoppers in at least three (3) soils.

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An opening suit bid of two represents the dividing line be- tween a better than average hand- and less than a game demand hand and is tormed the "game invitation bid." It is based most- ly on probable tricks and these simple measurements are speci- fled:

71) Seven (7) probable tricks if the hand contains only three

3) high card tricks.

(2) Six and one-half (62) probable tricks if the hand con- taine three and one-half (3%) high card tricks.

The "game invitation id" is "forcing" to this limited extent. It obligates the original bidder to respond once to any bid made by partner and his partner's response can be made on two (2) probable tricks only, and one and one-half (1) tricks if they are all high cards. Many games are frequent- ly bid and made with this very Interesting bid.

of

An opening no trump bid two matches the suit bid of two exactly as it shows a strong ́hand which is highly invitational. With three suits guarded it calls for a count of nineteen (19) points using the 4-3-2-1 count and with four suits guarded, n minimum of seventeen (17) points.

This so-called "game invitation bid" is described as the "safety valve for those contract bridge players who Inevitably make forcing bid on insufficient hold. ings.

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