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Contract Bridge

By Josephine Clubertson

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The only problem in the following deal is how to manage the diamond

suit. In the actual play, the Ieciarer went wrong. South dealer. Both sides vulnerable A 7 4 3 I O 9 5 3 Q A 8 3 ,. Q s 4. 5 4 2 K J 9 V 10 7 e 4 N :3 s 2 6 6 G8 W E 9 J 7 5 4 Q :10 D U S g, x 5 A A 10 5 9 A K Q Q K 10 9 I &AQr The bidding: south west North r':'ug' 2 NT Pass 3 N '1' P5” P93

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North's hand was pretty bad, but his ace. representing 4 points under the pointecount method. called for It raise of a bid - South's two- notrump m which announced at least 22 high-card points.

(There is this to be said, how- ever, for minimum "book" raises: they presuppose expert handling of the play, and such raises might

well be withheld if partner is not an expert.)

West opened his top club and East put up the king. South could now count six sure tricks in three suits (spades, hearts and clubs) and so obviously needed three diamond tricks to round out the contract. Unfortunately. however, he won only two diamonds. He led low to the ace and finessed on the return to his own nine. Wat won with the now-blank queen - and declarer could never regain his position.

It is true that South's technique in diamonds wes a safety play against the chance that East held Q-J-x-x. but this was not the most likely break. It was more probable that by laying down the ace and king, south would either drop an honor or. failing that, drop the two honors together on the next round. The computation of all the pomlble chances is involved. but players will profit by remembering this exact situation and applying the con- clusion to similar cases.

A case substantially similar is when declarer has K-J-x-x in one hand, opposite A-x-x in the other hand. Needing only three, not four. tricks in the suit, the salest method is to cash the king. then the ace. then to lead toward the remaining J-x.

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