Judge — March 12, 1932 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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‘AFUIP-AND is ut! reLease- & AND 17s our! C- WORLD'S GREATEST LIGHTER Do you give your wife normal support? SIDNEY 8S. LENZ’ © > e cof = 2 = 3B” His latest book on Contract, will tell you— back when how to answer your wife she gives you a slam sigi whether a jump response is neces- sary when there are strong slam possibilities— and many other things you should know to make the world a place to live in, safer Judge Publishing Co., 18 East 48th Street, New York City. ! | Please send me —— copies of * | Sidney S. Lenz at $1.10 a copy. | shipping, for which I enclose $ * 1 Name | Address 1 | City & State YOUR BRIDGE AND MINE Drourem test more deb: five, in the concluded, number con- just furnished able questions than all the others combined. It was one of those unusual deals where even the dyved-in- the-wool expert could not be certain of the preferred strategic play. Asa matter of fact, the declarant would probably have landed the game re- gardless of the adversaries’ procedure, although by double-dummy methods the contract might have been defeated in several The bidding gave accurate count on ways. the leader quite the South hand, fter the lead of the King of Clubs opinion was very evenly divided between a Spade, The vening Diamond or trump continuation. advocates of the lead of Diamond the toughest argument to combat—that the contract would have been defeated against any play. On natural after the Diamond le: the declarant would have still 1 his contract by trumping the I mond and returnin Club. West's natural play would have been his last Diamond, South would have again trumped and led the King and | Jack of Hearts, overtaken in dummy and the last opposing trump ab- stracted. Six trump tricks, two Clubs and two Spades, would have been good for the game. At the fourth trick, had West shifted to the Queen of Spades and had East refused to ruff, it would have been tough sailing, but it is hard to imag East player refusing to ruff with a holding of such worthless trumps. On the premise of a trump lead by West at the second trick, North must win and lead the singleton Spade. East, with only the five and three of trumps, is again asked to be inspired to refuse the ruff. Problem number six was received with toleration, but on number seven the discard of the best card in West's hand was not approved by a number of deep thinkers. The argument not devoid of merit. Presumab North should have reasoned along the | lines of the adversaries and thereby advanced which 26 s for rep West out of For that reason, in the opinion of some experts, West should not have shouted so vociferously, but only made a gentle gesture with the five or six of Diamonds. The defeat the contract with a ruff would have been so strong in East's mind, that a mild hint would hardly have been sufficient to. sway him from that objective. Even at the danger of warning the enemy, a sig nal in such a situation must be very strong. Holding ten trumps in’ the bined hands, headed by the Ace-King it would have required iron nerves to have taken a double finesse on the first round, although it would have been fine play and perfect card read have read trumps urge to ing. I was a bit surprised to be told that if North, on the eighth problem, had had only ordinary intellig should have made his contr: difficulty. By cove the ope Diamond lead with the King, would have been deprived of his on card of reentry and only two Dia monds and one Spade would have been lost by the declarant. Why North should have covered with the King, when there was no pos sible chance to set up a trick in the dummy or his own hand, not ex plained, but then there players still left who always cover an honor with an honor. However, the problem was not to justify or criticize North's play, but to save the game entirely on East’s procedure after a certain situa- tion has developed. Section “A” in’ problem number nine was a tough spot for the con firmed trump openers. Hundreds of letters asked besecchingly, “What could be lost with a trump lead?” Well, what could be gained? If the declarant did not hold at least one Heart, the bidding would indicate that a Grand Slam would be scored. On the Heart opening, with the two from partner, a Heart ruff defeated the contract. nee, he comicbooks.com