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By W. E. McKenney There are two types of hands --defensivé type hands and de- clarer type hands. When you pick up your cards, you must first de- termine which of these types you

hold.

If you have a hand containing a lot of aces and kings, wouldn't you much prefer that the opponents play that contract Then your nees and kings would take tricks, each of which would be worth 100 points

or more.

However, if you haven long auit and little high card strength, that! in the declarer type of hand. You know that the only tricks you can hope to take are long card tricks.

Too many people are anxious to bid on aces and kings. You need a lot more than that--yuti favourable distribution.

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The Bidding ' That is why South, with to-day's hand, should not open the contract- ing. If his partner cannot make a weak third hand opening bid, thers is certainly no reason for him to step into the bidding.

South makes a serious mistake on this hand in doubling the four True enough, it spade contract. Jooks as though he certainly could

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club, making his contract of four against this big hand,

If South had not doubled, the declarer might have fincased the hearts the wrong way.

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defeat the contract, but his part- ner has passed third hand, showing that he has an exceptionally weak hant.

1 East and West are in a four spade contract against this type of hand, you know that they are in the wrong contract, and you will have a good score on the board.

To double it may just locate the de- missing high cards that the clarer will need to make his con- tract or to go down one trick Jess and it is better to set the hand two undoubled vulnerable than one trick doubled.

The Play

After the four spade bid, South opens the king of clubs. When he continues with a club, East, the declarer, ruffs it. East now lends the small spade, winning with king in dummy and returning a small spade, winning with the ace. Now the declarer decides that the

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he in really interested is the queen, of hearts, and as South has don- bled, it at least gives him a reason to believe that South holds that cardi,

Therefore, he leads he jack of hearts. Or course, South must cover with the queen. A heart is returned and then the ten is played. This establishes the three of hearts for the declarer.

He lends it and regardless of whether or not South ruffs with the queen of spades, the declarer will discard the lasing diamond from. dummy.

This will allow him to ruff one diamond in duimmy so that all he loses is a spade, n diamond. and a

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