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CONTRACT BRIDGE
By W. E. McKenney
Solution to Previous Contract Problem
Have you ever been the dummy and been forced to sit and watch your partner, with an abundance of high cards, get blocked in one hand or the other, or fall to provide entries into the proper hand?
:
I often have said and here repeat that you must take in- ventory of your hand before care- lessly playing a card. Don't waste re-entrics-they may prove valuable toward the end of the hand.
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sing he must discard the four CONSIGNEES' NOTICE. from dummy
· MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
West will return his partner's SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES chub, which North will win' with the ace and then lead the five of spades, winning in dummy with The Steamship, the seven. He now is 'rendy to ake the heart Ancase. A small Heart is played and the jack Anessed. It holds, and gamo is made.:
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Today's Contract· Problem
Bonth is playing the hand Wosl at three, no trump. opone the three of hearts. How should South-play the hand?
AA 10.
$AQD7
(Blind)
(Blind)
MADE
A 10 0
Solution in next fasuo,
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Opening lead—♣ Q.
South
West North
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Some players might prefer to open North's hand with one not trump. Howevor, with just blank ace in the club suit and the diamond suit wide open, a spade bid is the better.
South Is confronted with 趄 problem over his partner's one It is a question wheth- spade hid. er to support the spades or to bid
because
two no trump,
of the kings. However, due to the fact that North has opened with a spade, showing that he has a real hand, South's kings perhaps are in on danger.
The hand is not quite strong
LONDON (via Australia) from £128.15.0 | enough to jump to two ne trump (Australian Newspapers on file).
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one no trump may sound very weak-therefore it is better to support partner with a bid of twò spadea,
Of course, when North shows a four-card sult, it is all right to carry the contract to three trump.
The Play
no
East's opening-lead is the queen Lof clubs. The play of the hand is only a matter of watching the en- tries. The trick should be won by dummy with the king and the spade suit, which is the longest suit, immediately started by lead- Ing the deuce,
West will play the six and de- clarer plays the queen. He now plays a small heart, winning in dummy with the king, and returne the three of spades. He must be careful to conserve that seven spot.
West plays tho ten, declarer Kocs up with the king, and now must return the nine of spades- not the five-as he needs the five for an entry. into dummy. On the
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A NEW supplemental note in the lociball rules asys the kick develops from i running play, the kicker loses his special protoc Gon and is accorded only the same protection
given any player
That now ring may cause several accident. before the season it over, unless licka from sun- ning plays are climated entirely. The rule pre- vides that charging man who auber through to break up a kick, and knocks down be kicker, a for blocking or partly blocking the kick, as part of a successfully executed play, in not lia-
blo
This leaves a
toa perally big loophole for rough players,
who might concentrate on the kicker alter block
jog the lick, and probably lay him out. The
sporting game is a clean toe, and the idea is to play the ball all the time, as is show m sketch,
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