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Solution to Previous Contract Problem

Don't think, just because you

have a winning trick in your hand, that it always is safe to cash it. In to-day's hand the declaror throws West in the lead, granting him a good trick and leaving him with another good trick.

Bofore cashing that good trick, West should stop to reason why South has let him in to make those two tricks. Of course, the answer Is that South, the declarer, wishes to got a squeeze on the Enst player of his and has no squeeze card own; so he deliberately throws West in the lend, in an endeavour to get him to squeeze his own 'part-

nor.

The bidding is normal and West'a natural lead is the eight of spades. A small spade is played from dum- my and East wins the trick with the king..

He returns the douce of spades, West wins with the ace and returna the ten of spades. A club is dis-

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carded from dummy, East discards a club, and South wins the trick with the jack.

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The drop of the queen of hearts. by West marks East with four hearts. The fact that he went up on the diamond marks him with probably the king and jack of dia- monda. It looks as though it la Impossible to make the contract. But South, the declarer, decides to try to squeeze East; so he leads the seven of spades, which West wins with the nine, a small club being discarded from dummy. East has to drop the eight of diamonds.

If West makes the mistake of cashing his six of spades, which, of course, is a good card, a small' diamond will be discarded from dummy and Enst will be aqueezed. If he lots go a heart, both hearts in dummy will be good, while if he lets go a diamond or a club," those" cards will be good in the declarer's hand.

Whichever cards East releases, the declarer will squeeze him in that suit, and the contract of three no trump will be made. This play is known as the suicide squeeze.

Today's Contract Problem

While the natural contract, here, is three no trump by South, which can be made easily, one pair bid four spaden and made t-ari in toresting.play. Can you make four spados against the best defense?

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