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now try a spade which is won by your partner's king. East returns the three of spades on which South' . ‘plays the jack under dummy's ace. The ace and king of hearts are cashed, partner throwing the three of clubs and a diamond to dummy's jack is won by partner's king. East returns the four of clubs, declarer
plays the ten and you are,
in with the queen. What
do you lead now? ‘ ’Has partner underled
the ace of‘clubs?
In that case a spade
'* would be fatal. If,
instead, you put dummy in with the heart, par- tern will make his ace of clubs at the end. But wait a minute. Partner~ discarded the three of clubs and then led the four. That must mean
_ he started with only five clubs. You know he ahd two spades and two hearts, so he must have had four diamonds and dummy is now stone cold dead. It is hard to be- leive declarer, hold-
~ing only two diamonds,
would butcher the hand in this fashion but, if you- trust your partner, you must now lead a spade. Missing hands:
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Safety Plays —
a review by David Golldnf
‘Blocking and Unblocking Plays
By Terrence Reese & Roger Trezel Fredrick Fell Publishers,INC Paperback———2.95 Availhblefrom: Bridge Books
P.0. Box 5075
Louisville, Kentuckey
‘ 40205 Reviewed by: David P.Gallant
Blocking and Unblocking Plays in Bridge is the se— cond title in a series of short books by the same authors in the master Bridge Series dealing with special aspects of play. ‘ , Many-times you and I have sat down to play bridge and find ourselves playing a contract that is ice cold. All we have to do is take our tricks. Then_a strange thing hap- pens. We find that after having taken most of our tricks we have a few more to take but we are in the wrong hand and have no way to get to the proper hand. The frustration we feel at this moment is mirroredpin our faces. This book sets cut to relieve this frustration arising from situations of this kind.
'In this book the authors show how to block an op- ponents suit so they will be unable to run a long suit. They show how to create a vital entry to one's hand or dummy by throwing away an unnecsssarily high.card. They show how r to allow the uninterrupted run of a long suit hy-dis— carding a winner. They
- carding a winner.
show how to run a blocked suit by. throwing the opponents into the lead and pitching a blocking card. They show how to force the opponents to create a needed entry to dummy in one suit by lead- ing another suit and dis- They show \how to unblock a high trump in order to take a trump finesse and end up in the right hand. Of course, there are many other things the authors show us and many variations on the same themes but I leave these things for the reader to discover for himself.
The authors have in— cluded forty—two il- lustrative hands in the book. In the words of
of the authors, "The problem in these blocking and unblocking plays is to perceive in good time how the play is likely to develop. The plays are easy to execute, but to anticipate the need for them is a great deal more tricky." The hands have been included so that the reader..." will easily recognize them in advance and bring them off at the table."
Reese and Trezel have d done it agian. Blocking and Unblocking Plays IN
. Bridge is a very worthy
successor to Safety Plays in Bridge. It is a valuable addition to
any bridge player's library. I can hardly wait for their next
book.
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