The British Bridge World

Editoriotl 13oard BERNARD WESTALL (CHAIRMAN) GEOFFREY RUTLER KENNETH KONSTAl\1 ALRERT DORMER (EDITOR)

VOL. 15, NO. 2 CONTENTS FEBRUARY, 1964 Page Editorial 5-7 The Droitwich Fragment, by Jimmy Tait 8-9 Reminiscences of a Bridge Player, by Harry Ingram 10-13 Annals of 's , by Terence Reese 14-15 You Say 16-18 New Problems 19 Par Point Olympiad (3), by Terence Reese 20-27 Polish News Letter, by Stanislaw Bitner 29-31 The Watcher 32-3~ Tournament World, by Harold Franklin 35-43 E.B.U. News, by Geoffrey Fell ... 44-45 One Hundred Up, conducted by Alan Hiron 47-5~ Bridge Academy, conducted by G. C. H. Fox ... 55-61

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Latest news in the Camrosc the British Bridge World when it Series is that England over­ re-appeared in 1956. Terence whelmed by Reese writes: 17-1 while beat Scotland , who died last 10-8. All four teams play their month at the age of 72, deserves last match later this month, with to be remembered by all bridge 18 v.p.s. at stake in each. The players for his influence on the table reads: Scotland 23; England early development of the tourna­ 20; Wales 20; Northern Ireland ment game, and by myself for his 9. friendship with my mother and the If Scotland beat Northern Ire­ kindness and trust he showed me land by 16-2 or better they must at the beginning of my career. make history by winning the In the late 1930s Hubert was Series. Doubtless they will field president of the National Bridge Benjamin, Mitchell, Goldberg, Association and editor of the Leckie, MacLaren and Jesner, British Bridge World. These oc­ heroes of the 15-3 win over cupations were very much of a England · last November. A sideline for a brilliant journalist, narrower margin than 16-2 may . mathematician, and wit, a man of suffice, for Wales have previously exceptional erudition. Cards were taken points from England in something of a blind spot for him, the Principality, where the teams but he brought enormous =est to clash on February 29-March I. the game and a succession of The Scottish Secretary, C. astonishing puns that kept ereryone Brecnc, sends good news. Scot­ in fits of laughter. land-Wales attracted a total In his heyday, when he was Bridgerama audience of I ,000 appearing on Round Britain Qui=, despite the All-Blacks' visit to he eamed a fire-figure income, Murrayfield on the Saturday. but such was his generosity and How does this compare with com·h·ialitr that he nercr kept English figures? Put your money pace with .his income tax. In later on t l:e Scots. years the illness of his wife and a A LARGENESS OF fondness for gaming and cheery SPIRIT potations (and especially the lifo Hubert Phillips graced the in combination), led to a decline in editorial and the pages of Iris fortunes, blll he nerer lost s ·, .·. ·i;.'y llfl•l good humour. 1/c r,- ;· -·· · -··: ..--.T~j· := .:..2 15 ti.Ct. J ack: dummv · · · :.·.:' .:g.;in in 1962, and I hope r-;: .; co·.:.n Qu and the nc;t • .'.:.•: _r,·11rs ll'l'fe happy and ;;.::.~• r.o:ds Kxx; he can deduce ·:: . ·~, · m 1rorry, for he lrad a th~t ti:: l::zd is from AJIO. ·:. ·::.: ·:.-ss 4 spirit that one seldom A s!w;::!e device and a theoret­ ·- :.- :··: this ~ame or indeed in ical zdvzr.;:e, but the E.B.U. : · ,. _, _. ::·_. ,:l·s. p~t it in tf:e ~me category as the Lmle ~tajor. SLEDGEHAMMERED NUT A... ~CHORS AWEIGH :: i:; good to hear, albeit It m:1y be Ion!! b-.::fore we have -_::: :=:.:iJlly, that the E.B.U. haYe bridge cruises i; the American :-.=_:-~:-::~:;elves to the heavy task style, with masterpoint con!!resses :: .. ~:::~g conventions in bidding afloat, but Harry Ingra~ ·and :.: : p!ay and deciding which Nico Gardener are showin!! the ~ -_: -_::i b-~ licenced. At present as flag. They are providing bridgl! _!.__ Hr.;tchinson remarked in iast on a numo-:r of P. & 0. Orient ~::-. ::-1 ·s You Say, no one seems cruises this year. Sec advertise· . ~:.-~ ·;.hat may or may not be ;: .~ : :: c. ment on page 25. All who love bridge and want /·. ·~ a firc.t ~tcp the E. B. u. h:\\'c to sec it more ''iddy played will <:;: ;.:-r)·.-~d ~orne play conventions :l t.. · '·. • .. wish them great success. P. & 0. :_ ·.mg n:verse dis- ·. ;~· dl~cards, Orient could not have chosen •.-~~~ .;nd ~ U D arc in, but the ~etter personalities. : \-. :~ ~:: pkr Roman leads arc out. ..f....·' : . an: h·1n' net 1 1·rom pairs ~E\\' YORK OLY:'\IPIAD -: :.. .. · and arc ~uhjcctcd to " \" Last year's European Cham· : - ~~-:~_ -: '.: . rc •.trictions in knockl~ttt pil,nship winners Flint ...... 1 '.:•cnh. 11:\rris~.m-Grav, Konstam, Reese. PJJrnan k ·His Jf . ' amount to this: Sdtapiw anj J. Tarlo-arc ll1 1 : ' •• player. pr< >po <, cs to kad an rq,res~.·nt Britain in the O~n •· J, l,J1Jr from . . . . 1 ' 1 l:Oillblllatllll\ of Sai~.·s at the ~cw York Olylll· ;-:J:lfJtH·., hl! kads the ~ .. .. J;' h·.: ·.t. tl . () . . u:nnd piad. Thev should h.: "annly . , rc llccn lrnm 1\.1)1 tl . l.'l'll~ratubt~·d. \\'c look for l J <:d: from AJ J() . ~ · • h: , · , .111d sn \ . .rrnrk a ... that. . 011 . ' s tl.'r"ard shl'win~ and hope fN th~.· lud, "hi.:it couiJ ~ring It mah.., no dill' ·· ... · Cr •. ;;-, hut tJ • CICIIll.: Ill lllll\o\ Britain the \\'MIJ cr0\\n. SiJn.:~ ' Inc ran h· . h·~.· is th~.· ~.·.1ptain. :·:rntagc \\h~.:n the 1.. . c .'Ill ad- lntt:rior ~Cl(ll cld 1'1 lmm :In <..\,ntran· h' the Sdcctors' puh­ . ~:nee. F\ampk: thl· li-.hl·d int~nti~~n:', no triJls ,,ere held. On pages 32 and 33 The It should be brought back. A Watcher answers a letter from two- or three-stage pairs trial "Trialist" and tells what happened could end the behind-the-scenes behind the scenes. It is a con­ controversy and benefit the fusing story. To judge from the game. Most of the places in the Selectors' two previous press re­ final stage could be filled with leases, they were unwilling to leading pairs chosen by the Selec­ select the Baden-Baden team direct tors; the remaining places could and they desired to hold trials go to pairs who had fought but seem to have been thwarted through. The first stage should be by events. Meanwhile a group of open to everyone; then no one players who in the Selectors' could complain. · Such a trials judgment were possible candidates scheme could determine four of for the British team, and who the six places in the team, the it seems were willing to co-operate third pair being chosen by the in the suggested trials, have lost Selectors after the trials. their chance. Naturally they are The "Butler" method has a unhappy. fine record. It established Barbour BRING BACK "BUTLER" and Swinnerton-Dyer as a top pair, and everything they did The letter from "Trialist" on later vindicated the method. In page 32 is pertinent but The the Sunday Times competition Watcher docs not answer it it brought the World Pairs Cham­ squarely. When "Trialist" says pions, Jais and Trczcl, to the top, "A year ago pressure from a few with Reese and Schapiro one top players caused the British point behind, besting Barbour Bridge League to abandon a and Swinnerton-Dyer on a split scheme of selection . . . " he tic. refers to the abandonment of the No less to its credit is the fact method successfully used before that in the 1961 and 1962 trials the Torquay and Beirut champion­ it relegated to a low place some ships - the pairs trial with big-name players who performed "Butler" scoring. · This was de­ poorly in unfamiliar line-ups. vised after exhaustive consultation with a large number of players Much more important, how­ and produced excellent results. ever is the fact that a soundly­ It has been copied by some base'd lasting scheme of this kind ~cading bridge countries but here would end the constant bickering Ill Britain it was dropped. and give youngsters a chance. 7 THE . i ~ ROITWICH FRAGMENT

Jimmy Tait makes his own studious comri­ bution to the quarter centenary of the birth of England's national poet.

The year commemorates the 400th anniversary of the birth of the great poet and dramatist and it seems an appropriate time to pose once more that vexing question, "Was Shakespeare a keen duplicate player?" Of paramount importance in this controversy is the Droitwich Manuscript, written by the Stratford genius following his visit to a local congress. The Manuscript appears to be part of a larger work which was never published in its entirety. Shakespeare is believed to have abandoned the project and a]] the noble Jines of the Droitwich Manuscript were eventua11y assimilated by the Bard's other plays, wherein they have lain for several centuries. Besides giving a true- · to-life presentation of a typical Elizabethan congress, the fragment is of historical value in that it gives the modern reader an insight into the severe penalties which could be imposed before the Laws were first revised. A pass out of rotation, which today is considered a minor breach, was, of course, a most serious offence. Good players have always been jealous of their reputation for ethical play and the tragic ending is a dreadful reminder of the lengths to which the Eli7..abethan expert would go to preserve his good n~me. For the benefit of the general reader the characters have been gtrcn those nomenclatures with which the modern duplicate player is 50 familiar. Suitable stage directions have been inserted. Scene: The principal pla) · in~ room at the Congress. Four Bridge Players and a Kibitzer arc seated at one of the tables. l:.ciSt: "Who caBs'?" JVest: "Pass." East (to North). "Do you ca11, Sir. Ho! Speak, I charge you. West: "He thinks too much. Such men ar..: dangerous." 8 East: "He is a dream::r. L~t us leave him. Pass." . North: "The order \va::; 1cvc::scd. Is there no offence in it?" Kibitzer: "Offence of mighty note. And his offence is so as it appears, accountant to the: hw." ' East (to Kibitzer): "Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool. · Who steals my purse steals trash: But he that filches from me my good name, robs me of that which not enriches him, and makes me poor indeed." Aside: "0 father Abram! what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect the thoughts of others." All: "A Judgment." · East (aside): . "0 my offence is rank, it smells to heaven: It hath the primal eldest curse upon it." South (calling aloud): "Hillo! Ho, Ho, boy! Look where he comes. He doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus."

Enter Tournament Director. Tournament Director: "What is the reason of this terrible summons?" South: "Have you heard the arguement ?" (Explains.) Tournament Director: "0 cursed spite! That ever I was born to set it right. Let each man show his bloody hand. Some god direct my Judgment." South: "Proceed." Tournament Director (pointing to East): "The party 'gainst the which he doth contrive shall seize one half his goods; the other half comes to the privy coffer of the state." North: "0 wise and upright Judge." East: "0 villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! I have lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part of myself and what remains is bestial. Then die." (Draws dagger and stabs Tournament Director.) Tournament Director: "Help! Help! I am slain!" (Dies). West (retrie,•ing travelling scoresheet): "0. Bottom, thou art changed! Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated." Kibit=er (aside): "He hath indeed bettered expectations." (Flourish of trumpets. Enter four Assistant Tournament Directors who remore the corpse.) North: "Good night, sweet prince. And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!" · West: "Come Jets away. Advantage feeds him fat while men delay." (East and JVest 1110 ,·e to the next table as the curtain falls.) 9 RE ENGES OF A B PLAYER

The final instalment of a series in which Harry Ingram has recalled the earliest days of British Bridge.

"English Sportsmen" (\lxx OKJIOxx +Jxx. Some· In view of Britain's good record times, (very seldom), it would in postwar European Champion­ come off, but such bids were ships, it may well be asked why really inexcusable in international we did so poorly in the 1930's. matches against Europe's best. Having played in London (Gros­ Austria was easily the leading venor House) in 1933, Brussels European country at that time in 1934 and Stockholm in 1936, and I well remember Edmund I would say that the advice given Pollak, then resident in Vienna the team before the Champion­ and playing for Austria, coming ships was taken too literally to me in Stockholm and saying by the players. "Never mind one morning on the steps of the about winning, show that you are Grand Hotel, "Ingram, what is English sportsmen," was the the matter with your team? You rather imperative instruction given arc probably as good as any team by Manning Foster, chairman of here, but you play bridge lik.~ the at millionaires at a penny a hundred. that time. Dick Lederer, who I am sure he was right as far as played in two of the prewar the latter part of his remark was Championships, wrote in an concerned. article. "We played a good This same Edmund Pollak sporting game but were not was the centre of an amusing always too accurate." incident in the 1933 Champion­ How right he was; indeed, how ships. This was the first e\'cr euphemistic. The kind of liberty held and it took place in the we took in response to a weak ballroom of Grosvenor House. 1NT opening was to jump to Only six countries comr:tcd, 3NT on such hands as +Kxx Austria (the winners), Bdg,unl, 10 Denmark, Holland, Nc-; nvay and torious Austrian team arrived Britain. Spectators v: c r~ allowed back at the Vienna Bridge Club, to wander from table to tctble, and the first thing Pollak saw on the at one point during our match card room wall was a six-foot against Austria a crowd arrived 9 of hearts. He had Jed the 9 from at our table, which rather sug­ K92. gested that there a slam was in the air. Sure enough, playing The menace of artificiality with W. E. T. Cole, I opened Congresses today are extremely One Club (a strong conventional popular, though perhaps not so bid) and received the response of well-supported by leading players Two Diamonds, showing two as in the past. To a certain quick tricks and a five-card suit. extent this is accountable from With little preliminary bidding, the fact that nowadays players and being nervous that Cole, from all over the country can in who was inclined to underbid, many cases hold their own very might refuse the slam, I jumped to well against the experts, par­ Six Diamonds. Cole, however, ticularly in short events. Further­ had seen the crowd and more, many who have been appreciated the slam prospects, playing for years now find their so that when he found I could interest lagging. As one who jump to Six he bid Seven. These has enjoyed congresses since the were approximately the two first was held at Southport in hands: 1933, I hope that the E.B.U. will never allow some of the fantastic WEST EAST artificial systems to be played at + A42 + K5 3 congresses. There is no surer \/A Q 5 cv J 7 way of draining the life blood of 0 A J 3 2 0 KQ764 all congresses-the average player. +KQ2 +A9 3 I should like to hear a general Pollak, South, led the 9 of chorus of, .. Agreed." hearts and Cole reviewed the , as I have men­ hand. It looked a hopeless seven, tioned before, has never appeakd with \/ K marked with North. to me very much. Yet I am glad Finally he could see no recourse to say that I have made many but to play a small heart from friends through rubber bridge. dummy, and to his amazement At the old Junior Constitutional it ran round to his Jack and the Club in Piccadilly, and at the now­ slam was made. \Vhen the vic- defunct Almacks, I had numerous II pleasurable games. At Almacks Qu ~ cn of clubs, and after du .­ on the unforgettable Seventh of considcration threw away th; September, 1940, we were playing Q!.!-::cn of clubs. Normally nothin g on the first floor in Saville Rmv would have been said at such when the bombs began to fall. siliy play but the mutt, instead of After some time they got heavier remaining silent, said to his and it was suggested that play partner, "Well, I could not tell should continue on the ground which to keep, could I?" Like floor. It would have taken more lightning came the reply, "You than Hitler's bombs to stop certainly could not. After all, he bridge, there and at many other might have revoked." London clubs. We had a very high standard of players at At­ A fatal pass macks, including , Two of my hard-luck stories, Terence_ Reese, , both from the' Portland Cup, Nico Gardener and quite a number which in prewar days was of slightly lesser lights. presented by the for competition amongst the West The J.C.C. was of course a End clubs. In the 1936 final I "Men only" club but here again played for Almacks against the the standard was high, although Devonshire. It was rubber bridge there were also many who were and as soon as one side had won not good. My affection for the a rubber (the boards were played club was due partly to the fact in duplicate), a new rubber com· that its members could combine menced. When the last board repartee with decorum. arrived we knew that the scores One evening, playing against were practically level and after two charming fellows, l ruffed three passes I threw in +A75 the second round of hearts and \/A63 OAJ42 +863. In the after eleven tricks had been other room the late George taken by both sides, I was left Morris opened One Diamond with the last and the Jack and Percy Tabbush bid 3NT; of clubs. The Ace and King of duly made, and we lost the Cup. clubs were gone and now I led Not bad luck but bad judgment. the last trump to the twelfth The next year, agalll· 10· the trick. The player on my right, final on the last board we had a who was no tiger, held the Queen sligh't kad and duly reached JNT. ·r kd of hearts (a suit which · 1 had During the play my par tn ~.; already rutTed, remember) and the from the wrong hand before 1 12 could stop him and we went one heart, allowing us to wrap up down, again losing the Cup. thirteen tricks for a complete top. Apart from the wrong lead, the After that Harold agreed to contract was easy. forgo the "tops or bottoms" Playing with Harold Franklin business. at Killarney some years ago, we The real joke on this hand, were about I 2 boards from the however, was at another table, end in the Pairs Championship where 6NT was again the con­ when Franklin said, "Tops or tract. Here the spade was led, bottoms now," "Why so?" I the King was taken by the Ace asked, "We are not doing badly." and then-the player switched. "Tops or bottoms" was the only Since an earlier article, in which reply I got. Almost immediately I mentioned whom I considered the bidding went: the best players, I have been asked who in my opinion was the Franklin Ingram best woman player. I+ 20 You are not going to catch me 4+ 5+ on that one. Being anxious to 6NT No be on good terms with all the To me the Four Clubs bid ladies, I prefer to say "No Bid." was mystifying, as I held the Ace Goodbye, and good wishes to myself. The player on lead held all you lucky people who play seven spades to the Q I 0, my bridge. Again I apologise for holding was the singleton King "chestnuts" and sincerely hope I and Franklin had J x. The lady have not said anything out of in question respected our bidding, place. however, and led a doubleton Bridge players arc so touchy.

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13 "An Elusil·e Gumc:" An episode in Terence Reeu'sfamous series.

When Lady Glum suggested a NORTH partnership evening, the majority Lady Harkaway of the players at Ruff's Club +KQ hastily pleaded a prior engage­ \/A 8 ment. Mabel Harkaway, however, 0 J 10 9 7 4 was too nervous to decline and +A 10 6 3 one Tuesday she and Lady Glum WEST EAST began the evening with two long Deuceace Scroop and unprofitable rubbers against • 9 64 • J 52 Deuccace and Commander \/19764 \/53 Scroop. At the end of-the second OAK " 08532 rubber Mabel proposed waiting + KJ4 + Q8 52 until another table was up, for SOUTH she was aware that her present Lady Glum opponents were a much superior +AI0873 combination. This aspect of the \/KQI02 matter had not struck Lady Glum. 0 Q6 "Nonsense, Mabel," she de­ + 9 7 clared. "We'll have our revenge." lady Glum's countenance re­ On this occasion Lady Glum laxed some of its severity when and her partner won the first the high diamond appeare d: ''I,, game and the rubber appeared think we're all right this ttmc, to be within their grasp when she said to Mabel. lady Harkaway dealt as follows: Deuceace could sec no future (.~ee next column) in spades or hearts, so he switched SOUTII Wt:ST NORTII EAST to the King of clubs. Lady Glunt 10 No allowed this to hold and Deuccace 1. Rcll· I+ No 2+ No continued with the J acr'. . 2NT No 3NT all pass ising that if she captured thts . . d'nrnonds Deuceace opened his fourth tnck she mtght lose two '' best heart and dummy's 8 held and three clubs, Lau).I , Glum held the trick. A diamond was led orr again. The SttU:tUOll. • W' lS noW and Deuccace won. as follows: 1-t NORTH Lady Glum \Vas showing signs +KQ of impatience. She anticipated a \;}A club from Deuceace and thought 011097 she could see her way home. · +AIO "If you want to make a cJaim WEST EAST you can show your hand," Scroop • 9 6 4 • J 52 informed her. · ~ J 9 7 4 \;}5 Before Lady · Glum had replied OA 0 8 3 2 to this, Deuceace came out of his +4 +Q8 trance to lead a spade. "Now I'll SOUTH show you my hand," he said to +A 10 8 7 3 Lady Glum. \;JKQIO Lady Glum took the spade in

06 dummy,· cashed the Ace of hearts1 and cleared the diamonds. Now Deuceace studied the cards for Deuceace led a second spade and a long while.·- The obvious and declarer was helpless: if she let easy play was a club, but even dummy hold the trick she would Lady Glum, he thought, could lose a dub at the finish, and she scarcely go wrong. She would could not overtake without es­ put up the Ace, clear the diamond, tablishing the Jack. and at the finish overtake a spade "Very clever play, partner," in order to discard a · club on a said Scroop. "I think, Lady Glum, good heart. Superficially, the that it would have helped you to declarer had ten tricks, yet ... play the Ace of hearts at trick 1."

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The E.B.U. recently vetoed a arc plenty of cheap hotels and modest increase in members' sub­ where one \Vould be only too glad scriptions of something like 2s. 6d. to get away from one's surround­ per annum, but I cannot believe ings and round the bridge table? that any bridge player would be A. A. PESCOIT-DAY, on the breadline through paying Teddington, Middlesex an annual subscription of 15s. The E. B. U. ts steadfast refusal or £1. to raise the derisory membership However, since the E.B.U. is subscription is not masochistic, clearly short of cash I suggest simply misguided. Some Counties the following remedies: -wrongly, in my view-want to 1. Double the entrance fee for keep members who play in few· the Autumn Congress. This could if any competitions, and ll'ho be afforded by those who can would refuse to pay an increase of spare two working days (Friday 2s. 6d. per year. and Monday) to attend, and it The capacity of the Autumn might also help the accommo­ Congress {s to be increased this dation problem. year. 2. Scrap the (sic) "highly suc­ * * * cessful" Spring Foursomes. I have often thought how Admit that this event has not useful it would be, especially to caught the congress-goer's imagi­ bridge players who travel, if the nation, with attendances of less could sec than one-third of former Spring its way to publish a list of all Congresses. This event has been affiliated Clubs with addresses a success only for the few expert and details of days and times of teams enjoying a good run. play, etc. I have recently sc~n 3. Instead of holding con­ an issue of The Bulletin, a month?' gresses in inaccessible places of magazine published by the Atnat· scenic beauty which provide dis­ can Contract Ilridge League, anJ traction from bridge, why not therein is to be found such ~n hold them in Birmingham, Crewe annual Directory as I haw 111 or even Manchester where then! mind and co\'cring no kss thlll

16 89 closely printed pag~s. I realise points out that North has to lead that for financial reasons your a club when the end position is: magazine could not undertake NORTH such a project, but- I should have + J 6 3 thought that the E.B.U. could WEST EAST easily finance it out of the monies +K92 +Q84 which flow into its coffers from SOUTH the sale of its Master Points +A 107 certificates. The benefits of such Harold suggests the lead of the expenditure would be very widely Jack in the hope of persuading felt. the declarer (West) that he has HOWARD DENNEIT, both honours but adds that West Rugby, Warwicks. should still play on the assumption An excellent suggestion. It that the honours are divided. would be a great convenience to In actual play North led +3 and E.B.U. members. South, wrongly, played the Ace * .. * and solved the declarer's problem. Harold Franklin refers (page As I was the North player, 42, December) to a deal from the perhaps you will permit a mild Scotland-England match. He rebuttal. The bidding played a ------If you live within motoring distance of ILKLEY DROITWICH EASTBOURNE

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PORTLAND PAIRS-MARCH 7J8 - 17 vital role and the full hand was I Jed 0 6 to the 3, 8 and Jack. somewhat different from the pub­ \Vest cashed OA, entered dummy lished version. with \?Q and ruffed a diamond NORTH with \?K. He entered dummy +AJ873 with y> A and led +Q. South won <::! J 6 the king and led 0 K. West ruffed 0 6 52 and played a spade which I won. + J 6 3 The timing of the defence may Wr:ST EAST be criticised but nevertheless I • 52 +QIO was on lead and had to open up <::/KI08732 <::/A Q9 5 the club suit. 0 A J 0 Q 7 4 3 The declarer had produced + K92 + Q 84 only eight points in the other SOUTH three suits. I figured he must + K 9 6 4 have +A, to say the least, and I <::/4 maintain this was the most reason­ 0 K 10 9 8 able assumption in view of his +AI075 second round jump bid. If West West (R. Sharples) opened One has +A 9 2 it would be fatal to Heart fourth in hand, I passed and lead the Jack; only a small club East bid Three Clubs. South gives declarer a problem. passed and West jumped to Four A. BENJAMIN, llcarts. Glasgow

011e Htindred Up Conducted by ALAN HIRON February Competition A J:l<~nel o~ experts will answer the questions and the ma.rki~g of t~l~ compeli.tJOn Will be determined by, though not necessanly m stnc proporlion to, the votes of the panel. FIRST PRIZE SECOND AND THIRD PRIZES Two Guineas. One Guinea. Please read these rules carefully. No competitor may send in more than one . Only annual subscribers arc eligible. Answers should be sent to One Hundred Up British llrid~e World, 35 Do,·er Street, London, W.l, to arrire not l;ter than first post 00 M:uch 1. Some latitude will be gh·en to o\·erseas competitors. 18 Problem No. 1 (10 poinr5) Problem No. 5 (10 points) J.m.p. scoring, North-~Ot!th vulner­ J.m.p. scoring, love all, the bidding able, the bidding has gocc: has gone: SouTH WEsT No;;.ni EAsT SoUTH WEST NORTH EAST I+ I+ No 3+ Dble 1\? 4~ No ? ? South holds: South holds: +AK94 \?K OKQJ9842 +7 +AQ \?9762 0AKQ32 +AJ · What should South bid? What should South bid? Problem No. 6 (10 points) Match-point pairs, game all, the Problem No.2 (20 points) bidding has gone: Rubber bridge, love all, the bidding SouTH WEsT NORTH EAST has gone: No 1\? Dble 4\? SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST No No Dble -No I+ I+ ? 20 Dble 3+ No South holds: +JS2 \?- OQ10653 +J9853 South holds: What should South bid? +174 \?S OKI087 +AKQ54 (a) Do you agree with South's bid of Problem No. 7 (20 points) Two Diamonds? If not, what alter­ J.m.p. scoring, love all, the bidding native do you prefer? has gone: (b) What should South bid now? SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST No No I+ No 2NT No Problem No.3 (10 points) 30 No 3\? No J.m.p. scoring, North-South vulner­ ? able, the bidding has gone: South holds: Sounf WEsT NoRTH EAST +KJ984 \?Q75 OAJ864 ·- I+ tNT (a) Do you agree with South's bid of Three Diamonds? South holds: (b) What should South bid now? +JO \?AQ643 08 +KJ9832 What should South bid? Problem No. 8 (10 points) I.m.p. scoring, love all, the bidding has gone: EAST Problem No.4 (to points) SouTu NoRTH INT Rubber bridge, North-South vulncr- able, the bidding has gone: No 2+ No 20 No SouTu WrsT NoRTH No 3NT No 10 No (12-14 no trump, 2+ Stayman.) South holds: South holds: +AJ52 \?AKJ7632 OK +J +752 \?AJIOS OK102 +KJIO What should South bid'? What should South ~!:ad? 19 PAR POil ~~j T OLYMPHt~:~ . ~: (3)

Terence Reese concludes his account of the British heat. The world-ll'ide winners are Romanet and Desrousseaux of France with a score of 163.

South was put to the test again West crosses to dummy with OA on Hand 20: and draws the last trump. South, NORTH by this time, must have disposed • 94 of his four top spades. Then \/ 10 8 6 3 declarer cannot establish his third 09 spade by ducking one round, +AKJ752 for North comes in with the 9 WEST EAST and has clubs to cash. Most +A 8 3 • 7 5 defenders saw all this a trick too \?AKQ9 \/1142 late. If South, at the finish, 0 Q 642 0 A K 8 5 retains one high spade and one + 104 + Q9 3 low spade, he can be end played. SOU Til This hand struck me as unfair: + K Q J 10 6 2 NORTH \?5 +KJ104 0 J 10 7 3 ~ K 83 + 8 6 0 QJ 9 West plays Four Hearts and +AQ7 the defence begins with three WEST EAST rounds of clubs, South trumping +A +Q986532 the third round and West over­ ~A QJ 6 ~97542 trumping. When West plays off 0 A K6 04 t?p trumps, South must appre­ +KJ853 +- Ciate that he is going to be SOUTII sq.ueezed in spades and diamonds. +7 Ills only defence is to unblock ~10 tl~c high spades from the hcgin­ 0 10t)7532 mng. After cashing \/AKQ, + 10 9 6 4 2 :!0 West had to play (not to bid) three certainly docs not deserve Six Hearts after North hud opened to lose the par. 1NT, placing himself ·.vith all the Having already played a squeeze outstanding strcn£th. \Vest wins of the vice type, South had to deal the diamond lead ar.d cashes with a stepping-stone squeeze +A. To secure the par, he must on the next hand. (The vice, the ruff a club, ruff a spade, and winkle, and the stepping-stone, continue on cross-ruff lines until arc terms used in The Expert Game he reaches an ending where to describe different types of dummy has +Qxx and \/9, squeezes. They were followed in declarer 0 K6 and KJ. Clubs the official analysis.) are led and North can make only NORTH the King of trumps. + AK32 8x, then this continuation will Warned by this not to continue expose him to an . In clubs, South reverts to diamonds. short, the play of

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A lJL\IUlK ut· 1111: t•t: l.A ~l ' t: GWOl' t" (}.) NoRTH hearts arc p~ ayed off and North +J is trump-c(n;pcd. \:) 1098 If he fai t ·-~ ·t on this deal, East 0 J 10 9 8 had a clw.:1cc to recover on the + 10 8 7 6 5 next: WJ-.ST EAST WEST EAST +2 +A +74 +AKQ2 (:)Q65432 \:)A J \?AQ9:~ \?- 0 A 53 2 0 K 7 64 0984 0AKQJ7 +42 +AKQJ93 +8753 +9642 SOUTIJ East plays (but is not required KQ 109876543 + to bid) Five Diamonds after \:) K 7 South, at Jove all, has over­ OQ called in hearts. South leads +K, +- North overtakes with the Ace and returns . +3. Declarer wins and The directed contract was Six plays · off a high diamond, on Clubs. Declarer wins the spade lead and plays ofT a top club, which South discards a heart. discovering the 5-0 split. As The Jie of the cards can be readily North has played +J on the first deduced, and the theme is one lead and defenders arc required common in double dummy pro­ to discard upwards, declarer can blems. Declarer unblocks on the place South with ten spades and diamond lead and plays ofT +KQ, three red cards. One plan is to ruffing with 08. Then he draws lead 06 to OA, pick up the the trumps and exits with +2· trumps, and hope to enter dummy As South has all the clubs and with 05 for a heart . If \? KJ I0, the spade lead brings declarer is going to do this, it about a forced suicide squeeze. costs nothing to play ofT OK Deal 31' by the standards of first . When South drops the this second half, was a compara­ Queen, which under the condi­ tively simple study in elimination tions of the contest must be a play. (next page) singleton, East must reconsider. North-South have to stay out llis only chance is to find South of game to secure t I1etr · ~ ar• but·vc: with (:)K. He plays ofT two the directed contract ts Ft rounds of hearts, rufTs the spadl! Diamonds. East leads a spade return with +4 and underruiTs and declarer can sec that his only with +3. Then the winning chancl! lies in a partial elimina- :!6 NORTII NORTH +4 +KJI08 y> Q 2 y>QJJ0876 OAK75?. 0 J 8 +A87)3 +J WEST WEST EAST + K 8 7 ~}:) ;::~ J 10 9 6 5 + A3 • Q2 r:}l0976 y> J 8 5 y>AK52 y> 4 3 0 10 9 8 0 QJ OAKQ 0 54 3 2 +JJ09 {,2KQ + Q7 6 5 +AK432 SOUTH SOUTH + A32 +97654 y>AK43 y>9 0 6 4 3 010976 + 64 2 + 10 9 8 tion. He needs to find a double­ a club, the Ace of spades is ton trump and doubleton +KQ cashed, and when the clubs are in the same hand. He begins the run off, North is squeezed. My elimination at trick two by ruffing partner, who had the annoying a spade. Then come two top experience of playing several diamonds, three top hearts, a hands three-quarters right, saw spade ruff, and two rounds of the point quickly enough but clubs, leaving East on play. made the mistake of playing +Q The final hand, a submarine at an early stage. When South squeeze with unblocking features, returned a club after taking his resembled Deal 27 and was also diamond trick, the squeeze would played by West. (next column) not work because the Ace of Maximum points were for spades had not been played off. reaching Six Clubs, but West had Well, there it is. Deliberating to play 6NT after North had over these hands in the tranquil overcalled in hearts. Declarer atmosphere of your study, perhaps wins the heart lead and plays ofT you think that you would have three rounds of diamonds. In solved them all at the table? order to rectify the count, and Frankly, I doubt it. Prove me also to dispose of a blocking club, wrong by entering next time. he crosses to +A and plays the (The hands \\'ere set by Jl. J. fourth diamond, discarding a Sui/iran am/ R. E. Williams of club from hand. South returns Australia). 27 '/ . ( : \ :: :. :~-;::._: ·~ =,. '......

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28 OL·ISH WS-LETTER

Stanislaw Bitner reports on the great srrides made by duplicare bridge in Poland and describes rhe ·youthful national team champions.

Team championships attract very success-2nd pos1t1or.. In I 962 they great interest in Poland. Let me easily won the title and in I 963 repeated describe the structure of team events the performance with equal case. The in our country. only matches Juvcnia lost were against ­ Team championships arc organised at Bepes (Warsaw), twice, and Polonia various levels. We have a 1st National (Katowice). The team is a young one Division consisting of I 0 teams and a and belongs · to the Students' Union. 2nd National Division divided into · The eldest member is 33 years old; the 3 groups of 6 teams each. In every youngest, and probably the best, regional district there is a local league Klukowski, is only . 24. The · team, consisting of 8-16 teams. In big captained by z. si:urig, includes 3 cities like Warsaw, Cracow or Katowice Polish internationals (Kasprzak, Klu­ there are also A and B classes. At every kowski, Szurig). All its members usc level each team plays another twice. the highly artificial The matches arc spread over the whole elaborated by Mr. Szurig, which was year. The winners at every level win quite a revelation at · Baden-Baden. promotion to the next higher class . . They are exttemely difficult to play Bottom teams drop into the ranks of the against and though, with few exceptions, next lower class. Such is the general not brilliant technicians they are crush­ outline. ing to pieces much more experienced The top Division comprised in I 963 teams by their precise and efficient five Warsaw teams, and one team from ·bidding. We arc very happy that so each of Lodz, Katowice, Cracow, young a team has established so firmly Wroclaw and Szczecin. In the outcome the leading position in Polish Bridge the top place-the Championship of and we hope that our future is thus well Poland-was won for the second time ensured. in a row by Juvenia, a team from One of the hlst and most vital matches Warsaw. This is a proper occasion to in the Championship was octween throw a little light on this team's Juvenia and Depes. Although Juvenia flashing career. were almost sure to win the title, they Juvenia fought at first in a local badly needed a decisive victory for league but won promotion to the I st reasons of morale. Their worst defeat National Division in 1961. Their first had been a 1-5 Joss to Bepes early in season in top class brought spectacular the year. Bepes were now he;tding for 29 . d pl 1 cc and if Juvenia failed to the expression c ~• West's face when he t Illf ~ , • k b::::t them it would put. a question-mar saw one more !;: art in his partner's aga in \t their supcrionty even though hand . . Of co ~J; -; , ; he was at fault for they won the title. not vi s ualisir: :~ lhe position-North ., here were many fre ak ~Jand~, and would have ~ =· .; ·:;n two rounds of . both te a m~ arc aggressive bidders, trumps if he h ;: ·~ ~ : ; !ht. smcc d I t of The auctior. ! : ~ '.he closed room was the num:rous kibitzers ha P en ~ fun . Two boards were especially even more drc.!·;c· ~ c : spectacular, the first dealt by South at SoUTH \VE 7' i"ORTII EAST lo\·e all: Jurcnia Bt pc:: Jurenia Be pes NoR Til 20 2~ 2NT 4+ +K 50 54' No No ~AJI09852 6+ Dble 60 Dblc 0 10 8 All pass + 7 4 3 WI ST EAST North's irregular bid of 2NT put the +OJ95432 +A 10 8 7 6 defence off the track. It docs not happen often that a suit as strong as ~ K4 ~ 6 3 0 7 5 0 K2 N-S's hearts is never mentioned. West +A 10 +0652 aswmcd that no tricks could be found SouTH in spades and led ~K. That was the +- end; the declarer had no difficulty in \:) Q 7 collecting 13 tricks. 0AQJ9643 After a spade the defence + KJ9 8 to Six Diamonds is amusing in many respects. N-S's red suits are sym­ SOUlll WL';T NORTH EAST metrical in many ways and in both of llcpr.\· Jurenia Brpes Jurenia them the missing King is under the tO 1\:) Dble 4+ Ace. There is, however, one funda­ 50 No 5\:) No mental difference. When the declarer, S+ No 6\:) all pass having ruffed the spade opening lead, N-S took I 2 tricks, 980 for Rcpes. plays a small heart to the Ace, the The Bepcs declarer trumped the lead defender · must play the King. On the of +A with dummy's <:?0 and played other hand the defender holding OK a small heart, finessing the Jack. Now must not cover 0 10 when it is led, he had to decide Y.hcther West had Kx otherwise he presents the declarer with or Kxx. For no very good reason he an entry to dummy with 08. decided on the latter holding, so he ran The deal ending the first half was f~JI 0 10, fine ~sed a second time, and played of dramatic suspense. West dealt With OA. West did not imagine that his both sides vulnerable. (next page) partner might have one more trump, There was nothing sensational about and ruffed the third diamond with his the auction, except the meek bidding of bare sacrifice" in Five Hearts-a contro\Ct duh to ,tummy's Jack. You can imagine which, as it happens, is made with ca se. 30 NoRTH to score 400 points. It appcar~d certain· +A KJ 6 ~hat the deal must be lost by Bepcs, even <:7- 1f they bid Five Hearts at the other 0AQ6532 table. And there was a real chance of +Q98 Juvcnia bidding and making Five WEST EAH Spades. Nobody dreamed what would • 10 9 8 4 ~) 7 happen in fact: . <7AKQ853 <;?Jl097642 SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST 0 108 0!-'.: Bepes Jurenia Bepes Jurenia +K ~J\532 1\7 Dble 4.+ SOUTH No No 40 4NT • Q 543 so Dble No S\7 <:7- No No S+ 6\7 0 J 9 7 4 6+ Dble all pass +JJ0764 The auction in the closed room took SouTH WEST NoRTH EAsT an unpredictable course. Four Clubs Bepes Jurenia Bepes Jm·enia was a double-bluff-ostensibly a natural No(?) 1 0 3\7 pre-empt, designed to keep N-S out No 4\7 4+ all pass of a slam. They took the bait, but the After the opening lead of \710 the real disaster occurred in the play. East kibitzers had plenty of fun, watching started quite properly with +A, then the efforts of declarer to go down in an gave partner a ruff with +2. Everyone apparently easy contract. North rufred read this as a Lavinthal and North in dummy and discarded a small club decided it denoted a diamond void. from his hand, East raising his eyebrows When West returned 08 North ducked incredulously. Declarer's next move and the bare King won. Thus East was was to play a small club from dummy, able to give his partner another club West taking with the King and hesitating ruff and to obtain a diamond ruff for a long time before deciding to play himself, so, after all, Juvenia lost 13 ~A. Happy North discarded +Q i.m.p. on the deal and lost the match 1-S. and had now an easy ride for 12 tricks. Both declarers were Polish inter­ At least, everybody round the table nationals, and believe me, normally . thought so, but North had different they solve much more difficult problems ' ideas. Instead of playing +Q and than this. It just shows what "nerves" following with OA (the play which can do. assures him of 11 tricks at least), he The top positions in the Polish 1st led 09. Wert covered with the 10 and National Division were finally as the declarer ... finessed the Queen. East follows: took the trick and played +A, on which 1st Juvenia, Warsaw, 89; 2nd 1\f.K.T., his partner discarded his last diamond. Lodz, 75; 3rd Bepes, Warsaw, 66. The game still was not difficult to make: North should also discard a A Polish team wtll be diamond. However, he ruffed +A and playing matches In London eventually finished four down. very shortly, after Juvenia supporters sighed with relief visiting Ireland. when their E-W players thus managed 31 THE WA . CHER

Unbridled banter from our Special Com­ missioner on tire inside of hig bridge. This mollllr tire topics f.·ichule the cancelled B.B.L. trials all(/ a ccmr!afnt from a Welsh reader.

Congratulations to Jimmy Tait spoil the qi: c. lity of the East­ on his parody of Damon Runyon bourne Congn:ss would arouse in the December iss ue. This was several horse iaughs in America. just the sort of thing that the T.R., London, \V.I. offbeat literary magazines like. Your mask of anonymity is thin, Why wasn't it offered to one of T.R., but the form is preserred. them? C. K. J., Wolverhampton. You don't explain how sensible tournaments for 1,000 players Philistine! This ll'as an out­ could be arranged over four days. s tmulin~ piece, sure of a lasting In America there are el·ents for place in the literature of the Kame. rarious classes of player, according * * to their master point rating. In After all the trumpetings that Britain the average players like preceded his debut, it was dis­ the clwnce of coming up against appointing to find The Watcher the top masters. acting as a sort of longstop for the En glish Bridge Union in the * * * matter of Congress attendances. A year ago pressure from a few When I was on the promotion top players caused the B.B.L. to side I had the despised intent of abandon a scheme of selection making a profit from Congresses, determined after lengthy con­ and if it had been possible then sideration and consultation of to attract I ,000 players I would players and which is now in ha vl.! worried about pulling in the general favour throughout the I,OOht. The E.B.U. might with world, and which produced one adv~tntagl.! take a more pro­ winning team out of two in spite fe ss ional attitud~:. The plea that of a boycott by the minority with an incrt:ast: in numbt:rs would special interests. Now the pres- sure has reached the point of and Schapiro being exempt~d). causing the authorities to 3bandon This is beliered to hare broken an announced method of selection down because Gray and Flint for the Olympiad. Is a very demurred for mrious reasons. The select tail wagging the B.B.L. selectors then abandoned this trial dog? and, without gh·ing other players TruALJST. a chance to prove themselres, Before Baden-Badm ·th:!re was chose the original Baden-Baden team en bloc. a preliminary trial jo .~ a group of teams, then a seconc/" trio.!, then a If you walll to construct a match invob,ing the leading players. canine image out of all this, it No evidence there. of special should be of the selectors chasing tl1eir own tail and giving it a series pressure. of sharp nips. This season the selectors first * * * invited the European Championship Please suggest suitable penalties winning team to go into the box for B.B.W. contributors who: and accept a challenge, adding (a) Misquote sources: Dec. issue that if this was not acceptable to page 31, ."France and . U.S.A. in all, other trials would be arranged. 1956." A tedious search through The team was not unanimous. · the book of the match demon­ No public statement was made strates that there was no such hand. but it is . understood that Mr. (b) Have short memories: page Reese proposed a trial in which 46, "it appeared that John Collings a team would meet would qualify for a long-antici­ the strongest opposition. Insiead pated 'cap.' " Collings played of this, . the selectors circulated a against Wales two years ago, a group of a dozen or so top players fact reported by the same colum­ im,iting them to submit combina- · nist. lions in pairs or teams. There AVENGER, Surrey. were sufficient acceptances to form a trial for about four teams, but (a) This is better, at any rate, some of the players were not than attributing a 'chestnut' to the considered to be up to the necessary author's best friend. standard, and a further project (b) Penalty: bid 200 hands with was suggested-a match between the man you hare insulted. Gardener, Rose, Priday and Rod- • • • rigue, against Konstam, J. Tarlo, Artificial systems flourish be- ~l int, Gray and Swimer (Reese Cause there arc not enough natural 33 bids available to satisfy the quest Your appointment, Watcher for complete accuracy. is very welcor.:c. If the Edito; The remedy is simple-make is going to zip up the magazine, the "book" five tricks instead of I sincerely hop::! that the BRITISH six. Game at no-trumps would Bridge \Vorld ·sill be zipped to require nine tricks as now, but cover BRITISH bridge for the the contract would be 4NT, not BRITISH. 3NT. Just think of the scope k . :~·.A., Birmingham. for authors, teachers, etc., and An old, awi regrettable, story. the first thrill of bidding eight! The B.B. JV. h ~-:. :?z't got the staff A.R.H., London, S.E. to chase up ;;.!l the news from Yes, the pundits would hare a ercrywhere. 'J~:r e reproach lies fine time,· ~:ood reason for not upon the various Unions for failing altcrin~: the basic scoring. to appoint a publicity officer to • keep the press lrcll informed. Did the editor or anyone con­ • • nected with the B.B.W. happen Your regular contributors are to know that Wales met Northern not exactly film stars. Why can't Ireland on the same weekend we see 's photograph. that England lost to Scotland? Miss N.R.F., Knightsbridge. I am a Welshman living in It is true that .my colleagues are Birmingham and have been wait­ blessed with somewhat homely ing anxiously for my December features. What a pity that my copy to find out what happened, own debonair visage must blush only to be bitterly disappointed unseen. at there being no mention of it. • *

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Lm;t month saw an easy ll'in for England orer ;,_:ortlrem Ireland, narrow wins for Phyllis Williams' team in the Whitelaw and for London in the Tolle­ f',rd te. Harold Franklin reports.

The i1::.C: r:cw life The Little Major is particularly well breathed into it when Swtbnd over­ geared to light opening bids, but this whelmed a strong Engli),h team last was not a problem hand: November by 15 v.p. to 3. England WEST EAST did their best to save a lost cause when I+ 10 they took 17 v.p. from Northern I 3 Ireland, and their efforts were given an 4 No unexpected boost when Wales beat East's raise to Three Hearts was Scotland 10-8. With one match to forcing and the effect was' as a Culbert­ play the scores now stand: Scotland 23, son One Heart-Three Heart sequence. · England 20, Wales 20, Northern Ireland West clearly had nothing to add. 9, and if Scotland beat Northern Ireland At the other table Goldblatt opened narrowly while England gain a large · One Heart. Many players would win against Wales a situation could consider the East hand suitable for the arise whereby Scotland, having won all .. application of the Swiss Convention, three matches, could yet fail to win the whereby a bid of Four Clubs or Four Championship. Diamonds shows a strong (as opposed England v. Northern Ireland to a distributional) raise to Four England: T. Reese, B. Schapiro, J. Hearts. Without such aid, Decry had Cansino, R. M. Sheehan, R. W. Bowen, to improvise and ignored an accepted M." S. Buckley, J. Lazarus (n.p. capt.). principle by forcing above the intended Nortlrem Ireland: D. Decry, E. Gold­ trump suit with a bid of Two Spades. blatt, R. A. Corrick, K. Y. Singleton, West raised to Three Spades and, A. Lennon, J. H. O'Dempscy. though East now bid Four Hearts, The Little Major was under review the damage was done; West bid Four for the first time in the Camrose series Spades and had to play in Five Hearts. but the test proved far from rigorous. The spades divided 4-2 and the con­ The Irish were the architects of their tract was one too high. own misfortune here: Bowen and Buckley, who came in W [ ST EAST for England after sixteen boards, +K875 +AQ6 returned this gift in greater measure CVAKJ75 Q9862 with an nmbitious grand slam. 076 OQ85 The Irish pair had played safe in +63 +A7 settling for a game contract. 35 ~ c~-;- ;1 WL'iT EAST • 10 3 f.\ K J 10 +A Q94 \/ A982 (/J983 \1 A 4 0 A K J 10 7 3 0 K 10 9 8 2 0 8 ._...... I\ +A Q 52 + K J 8 WIST EAST EAST WJ.ST +A 9 3 2 +08765 Decry Goldblatt \/10 \1 K 7 3 30 IV> 0 A Q6 No 04 3ST +KQJ8c- 3:?. +94 ·rhe opening bid of One Heart Sc, rr &l i served its purpose "hen North Jed a ~- 4 spade away from the King to give \/QJ654 declarer twel ve tricks. This was the 0 J 7 53 Engli sh auction: 10 7 5 WJ.ST EAST SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST Bo»'C fl Buckley No 10 JNT Dble I+ 20 2\/ 3+ 4\/ 4+ 2+ 30 No No Dble All pass 3NT 4+ West shows a spade suit with his 40 4\/ opening bid and subsequently promises 7NT 4NT a longer club suit. As the cards lie Ea!> t mi ght have preferred 4NT on the play presents no problem, but it the third round. One can sympathise might well have done: South led a with West's dilemma over Four Clubs; heart, North won and returned a he c.ould ha ve signed ofT with 4NT, diamond. After some thought Reese but had his partner's weakness been in decided that he had to take the finesse; hea rts that might have been less safe if he declines it and plays Ace and than a diamond game. None the another spade the dummy can be le ~ s there were better mark-time bids forced with a second diamond, and th· n f our Dia monds. Four Spades, for subsequently killed if +A can be held exa mple, "ould have shown +A and up. If North returns a heart at trick could not be misleading as to shape in 2 declarer does best to take the force view of the earlier auction. East probed on the table and lead a low spade on "ith Four Hearts, and when this towards the Queen. failed to arouse partner it was surely At the other table West opened One time for prudence to call a halt. Club, North doubled and East re­ This En g li ~ h re,erse left the scores doubled. South bid One Heart and close at half way, but England were West, who judged himself to have no soon pre ~s ing for a maximum win. A defence bid Two Clubs. North made a ga me ~ w ing "hen Reese and Schapiro surprisi~g pass and East, after his found a tighter dtfence than their partner's show of weakness, saw no counterp;lrls "as followed by a hand point in advancing further. Two on which the Little M:1jor showed to boards later both teams missed a good adv;mtage. South was the dealer "ith slam. North dealt with East-West neither vulnerable. vulnerable. (m·xt pagl') 36 W£ST EAST York Olympiad, \\Crc i;;~i ~ :r t r.:ir!.= t : : ; t K J 10 7 4 2 +AQ aggrcssi,·c: a sub-s:ancard c•v':;:..::.r, }Ji'.i \/3 ~ 9 7 6 2 cost a part-score s·sir.~ t,u• : t.~:.' 0 8 6 5 0AKQ32 countered by fo:cin£: Cc.n : :~ :. ·:' :'!~ : ~ + K 7 3 +AJ Sheehan to errors cf Jl!dr.r.·r::·.:. " :.'~ :: ~ dealt with E:1st-\'/cst vu!o·,! r.:! b::: : For Northern Ireland Lennon opened !'~ORTH 2NT with the East hand and O'Dempsey A closed the auction with Four Spades. ~ A!i42 When Reese sat East, North made a semi-psychic opening of One Club. <> Q 54 +KJ743 East doubled, South bid One Heart WEST EK-T and West Four Spades. Reese raised to • J 7 6 ~ K 10 k 4 2 Five Spades and his partner could do 5 no more. Five Clubs might have served ~ KJ 10 ~8 better than Five Spades, for West 0 9 6 0 A 10 8 could (hen have shown his heart + Q 8 52 +A 1096 control without raising the level and SOUTH that would have enabled East to do • Q9 3 the rest. ~Q9753 OKJ732 Not all partnerships give a precise meaning to the response of. Four of a +- major over an opening bid of 2NT. SOUTH WEST NoRTH EAST A hand which has no ambition beyond Sheehan Gold- CallSino Deery Four Spades can expr.!ss itself ade­ blatt quately by bidding Three Spades and No t+ going on to Four Spades whatever 2~ 2+ 4~•• 4+ partner may do. The Four Spade No No 5~ Dble response can then be reserved for Both North and South seem to have precisely such a hand as West's: a judged badly. South, void in his six-card suit headed by KQ or KJ and partner's suit and with the diamonds an outside king, or a six-card suit well held, must surely expect the headed by AQ and an outside Queen. declarer to be hard pressed to make ten Such a hand, with a singleton, can tricks. North had nothing in hand after readily produce twelve tricks opposite a his Four Heart bid, but none the less had 2NT opening. Following these methods good defensive values. At the other East would just be worth a try of Five table Reese, charact.::ristically conserva­ Clubs, West would bid Five Hearts tive, passed over One Club. South bid and that would produce the right answer. One Heart. North raised to Two England were after blood but there Hearts and Reese now came in with Two were five passed-out hands in the first Spades. South bid Four Hearts and match of the trio and the final i.m.p. was permitted to play there. score was 64-31, giving a victory point Two boards later South was faced score of 5-l. The second match was with a more awkward problem: close only for the first eight boards. +K4 ~AQ86 0AS43 +toS7 Goldblatt ;1nd Decry, who will be Neither side W

Geoffrq Fell, lion. Tournan:cr.t Secretary of the Eng!iJ/t Bridge Union, gires n: r.; nth/y bul!etin.r on the national tournaments . .

Again this month some good .results from., the "Unde:dog:;.". Will some of these catch the eye of the Camrose Tnal selectors. Has the trmc urrvcd for players who produce these results to enter the Trials? Of necessity the Trials would have to be larger than at present, but would that be a bad thing? Round 11 was to be completed by February 2, but 10 results ~rc awaited. The following results claim mention: E. F. Glanville, with W. o :cm::!l, D. S. Ginson, M. Stolarow beat G. 8. Burrows, whose team included Camrosc Trialists B. Scott, a newcomer to our Competitions, with E. S. Cannon, E. A. Stc~d. R. Millington, J. Tebb. Mrs. McCredie beat Mrs. J. Gatti, whose team also included Trialists. F. North who had beaten N. Gardener in the previous round was beaten by 65 i.m.p. by Mrs. P.M. Williams, with W. J. Langierf, D. Smerdow, J. Pearlstone and G. F. Mathieson. G. C. H. Fox with Mrs. B. Harris, Dr. Y. Forbes and W. L. Whyte beat J. D. R. Collings who had 2 pairs of Camrose Trialists. Results to date arc: G. Fell (Yorks.) beat K. Sharples (Lines.) by 64; M. Blank (N.W.C.B.A.) beat Mrs. H. Myers (Yorks.) by 14; A. S. Monckton (Staffs.) beat R. W. Todd (Yorks.) by 90; M.A. Porter (Warwicks.) beat W. A. Cleverly (Gios.) by 34; G. G. Endicott CN.W.C.U.A.) beat E. II. Barnby (Warwicks.) by 48; R. Myers (N.W.C.B.A.) beat E. J. Arm!>trong (Warwicks.) by 32; A. H. Dalton (Surrey) beat Dr. W. Spirer (London) by 48; E. F. Glanville (London) beat G. B. Burrows (Essex) by 13; Dr. B. E. Jennings CHerts.) beat J. E. Taylor (Hcrts.) by 75; Mrs. P. Forbes (London) heat A. G. Jeffery (London) by 55; B. Scott (Herts.) beat Mrs. J. Gatti (London) by 5; J. T. Reese (London) beat J. Sargeant (Kent) by 61; J. P. Watson (Surrey) beat M. M. llumphrizs (london) by 16; R. Crown (Middlesex) beat D. Baskin (Essex) by 19; Mrs. P. M. Williams (London) beat F. North (Sussex) by 65; Mrs. M. Edwards ISurrey) heat L. Bradford (London) by 83; Mrs. R. Oldroyd (Yorks.) beat M. Allen CLines.) by 67; G. C. H. Fox (London) beat J. D. R. Collings (Surrey) by 20. Round Ill has been drawn by the Chairman of the E.B.U. as follows: Mrs. R. Oldroyd I', R. Myers; M.A. Porter 1'. J. C. Bloomfield or G. W. Sutcliffe; M. Blank 1'. Dr. J. C. Macfarlane or P. A. Broke; E. F. Briscoe or W. H. Gibson 1 '·. G. G. Endicott; W, Grimble orR. A. Ray 1'. G. Fell; C. A. Andrews or B. T. 1 Ll~ s ~n '· A. S. Monckton; C. C. Smith or B. P. Topley 1'. F. C. Keyte or L. R. GrtOllhs; G. C. II. Fox 1·. Mrs. M. Edwards; A. H. Dalton v. Mrs. P.M. Williams; N. J: L. Da\icsor M.llarrison·Gray 1'. B. Scott; E. F. Glanville 1', Mrs. R. Markus or~· W. C:rowhur~t; R. Crown I '. J. T. Reese; M. A. Sutherland or P. 1'. J. I· Watson; Dr. B. E. Jennings 1'. Mrs. P. Forbes. To be played by March 29th. 44 CROCKFORDS CUP One result of especial mention is t~1at M. Buckley with R. Sheehan, P. Juan and Mrs. P. Juan, beat R . Prc ~.toro, R. Sw1mcr, A. Rose and N. Gardener. Other results in Round II: Mrs. J. Johnston (Middk ~. c x ) beat B. V. Byron (Herts.) by 9; A. J. Walkden (Kent) beat E. Schon (London} by 10; K. E. Stanley (Essex) beat A. T. Cunliffe (Surrey) by I; Dr. M. Rc:Hdt (London) beat J. Albuquerque (Sussex) by 15· C. Hille (Surrey) beat Mrs. J. l\1. Harper (Surrey) by 7; R. C. C. Gyles (Somerset) beat Mrs. D. D. Shanks (\Va !'·.. icks.) by 44; Dr. J. B. Fulton (Yorks.) beat M. Allen (Lines.) by 40; A. S. Mon c:~ to n (Stdfs.) beat G. P. Hirst (Yorks.) by 24; B. P. Lipson (N.W.C.B.A.) beat L. Morrc:! ("'t'orks.) by 51; J. Bloomberg (Yorks.) beat E. Burston (Dcrbys.) by 70; R. E. Ph i li p;;~ (Somerset) beat R. B. Jackson (Warwicks.) by 4-t: M. Buckley (Kent) beat R. Frcs:on (London) by 8; C. E. Phillips (N.W.C.B.A.) beat Mrs. H. Myers (Yorks.) by 18. HUBERT PHILLIPS BOWlr-ROUND II Mrs. P. M. Williams (Landen) beat E. Schon (London) by 1,830; S. W. Thomas (Somerset) beat A. T. M. Jones (Somerset) by 30; Mrs. J. M. Davies (Warwicks.) beat Mrs. E. L. Figgis (N.W.C.B.A.) by 170; L. L. Robinson (Essex) W.O., P. Myhill (Norfolk) Scr. ROUND Ill J. R. L. Thompson (Notts.) beat The Hon. Pamela Walpole (Norfolk) by 1,060 : W. W. Brown (Berks. & Bucks.) beat Miss V. Bass (London) by 590; Mrs. M. Whitaker (London) beat J. Albuquerque (Sussex) by 2,100; Mrs. K. Garfield (london) beat Mrs. R. Preston (London) by 560; G. P. Hirst (Yorks.) beat K. Sharples (Lines.) by 3,290; Dr. J. C. Macfarlane (Derbys.) beat Miss 0. Ramus (N.W.C.B.A.) by 1,210. . PORTLAND CLUB CUP The closing date has been extended. Please send in your entry by February 20.

TOURNAMENT WORLD (continued) strange lapse and played low. This Even after a heart lead, +K may limited the defence to +A. come down in three, the diamond That was not the only Crown-Hiron honours in two, or the hand with three slam success, although it was the only diamonds may hold four clubs. In fact one of its kind. a heart was not led and the diamond +- ~xxx OK987x +QJOxxx honours came down in two. Soun~ NoRTH 2+ 20 The North-West won their match 2NT 30 against Warwickshire, making the fin;tl 3NT ? score: London 5, Somerset 5, North· Hiron went on with Four Clubs and West 2, Warwickshire 0. The winners when partner bid Four Diamonds he were represented by: L. Tarlo, C. raised to Five Diamonds. Crown bid Rodrigue, J. Turlo, M. Wolach, G. F. the sixth, holding: +AQxx \?Axx Mathieson, Dr. S. Lee, A. Hiron, R. OAtox +AKJ. Crown. 45 Directory of E.B.U ../ .. r.ffiliated Clubs Bf.RKSJIIRE H. Ponting. Sta'ke~ I!· and 6d. 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Conducted by ALAN HIRON J:i'11.mry solutions: If you did not enter for the hr:1uary competition, try your hand at the problems in the January issue before reading how the experts vctcd. ·

The panel for the January competition North's diamonds were exposed to the consisted of the following seventeen opening lead-with a subsequent ruff experts: Mrs. R. Markus, M. Buckley, by West in the offing-then the outcome E. Crowhurst; R. Crown, A. Dormer, might be unsatisfactory. G. C. H. Fox, J. Nunes, T. Reese, R. SwiNNERTON-DYER: "3NT. No reason Sharples and N. Smart, all of London not to do the obvious. With our OJ and the Home Counties; C. E. Phillips we should have a double stop, and there of Cheshire; P. Swinnerton-Dyer of are enough points. If I had a four-card Cambridge; K. Barbour of Massachu­ major I might look for the 4-4 fit; but setts; J. Besse of Geneva; J. Vanden a 5-4 fit is not nearly so useful." Borre of Ghent; J. le Dentu of Paris; MRS. MARKUS: "3NT. If East had and H. Filarski of Amsterdam. held a solid diamond suit, or one that Problem No. 1 {10 points) could readily be established together I.m.p. scoring, North-South vulner­ with an entry, he would not have able, the bidding has gone: warned us by bidding Two Diamonds. SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST I confidently expect partner to make tNT 20 3NT, whereas a double of Two Dia­ {16-18) monds might yield only 500 points." South holds: SMART: "3NT. It might be better +KJ3 ~QJ974 0J72 +J6 to be in Four Hearts, played by North, What should South bid? but my methods are not sufficiently pro­ Ansll'er: 3NT, 10; Three Hearts, 8; gressive (i.e. tortuous) to achieve this, Three Diamonds, 7; 2NT, 6. even if it is desirable." The panel's mte: 7 for 3NT; 5 for But there were some progressives: Three Hearts (Nunes, Crown, Besse, SHARPLEs: "Three Diamonds. An ~rmcr and Crowhurst); 3 for Three attempt to reach Four Hearts, which Dtamonds (Vanden Borre, Sharples could be a safer contract than 3NT if and Barbour); 2 for 2NT (le Dentu and it is played by North." Reese). And some regressives: Only two of the panelists thought CROWHURST: "Three Hearts. I might South should not insist on game: the well have bid Three Hearts had there others split over the decision whether been no butt-in. Now it is even more or not to show the hearts. If South important that we do not play in no bcca n1e declarer in Four Hearts and trumps without a sure diamond gu;mJ." 47 And suinc depressives: 3NT: Fi'e Di:1monds was icy, and vet RtL~r. : "21'T. With a suit called l'orth's Thn.:c Club bid was un~~­ again\! you, you must deduct a point ccptionable. !'or would North have or two owing to lack of Aces. In my had any excu::.c for disturbing 3NT. Drrrlnp Your !Jicldin~: Jml~:mcllf I made PIIILUI'S: "Three Hearts. I take the in\pired suggestion that in this North's fore:: 10 ~how a hand worth a scqucrce, Three Clubs by opener shoul~ raise to Four D i;:monds and a respec. have Staymanic implications. Th1s table club sui!. ~~lam prospects arc too would suit well here." good for an im:-nr.diatc slide into 3NT. Only if pari:-,t;;:- bids a mournful Four J>robkm :"'o. 2 (20 points) Diamonds ocl· Three Hearts will we Game all, the bidding has gone: (sometimes) rcs::-~t passing 3NT." SouTH Wt.sT NoRTH EAsT Nur-.a:s: "Thr-::c Hearts. If partner No No has the distribt1~ional type of hand I 10 No 3+ No expect, Six Di:unonds may be on and 3NT off." South holds: BrssE: "Three Hearts. Even at match­ +K98 ~AK4 OKI0953 +A7 point pairs a slam is good to What should South bid: (a) at match- reach and inake." point pairs? (h) At i.m.p. scoring? Barbour makes the point that 3NT Am1n·r to (a): Three Hearts, 10; 3NT, may well play b::tter from partner's X: Six Diamonds, 5: Four Clubs, 4. side of the table, but I find this difficult Thl' panl'!'J mtr: 8 for Three Hearts; (, for 3NT (Mrs. Markus, le Dentu, to envisage. Dormer, Vanden Borre, Cro·,..·hurst and Not all the 3NT bidders give up hope Buckley); 2 for Six Diamonds (Fox and of making a slam: Smart); I for Four Clubs (Filarski). LE DENTU: "3NT. If partner cannot To by-pass 3NT in order to investigate bid Four Diamonds over 3NT, I don't a slam is notoriously risky at match­ think that there can be a slam." point pairs. If no slam is available and Two plungers tried an immediate your side is committed to play in Six Diamonds. Now, I have no ob­ Five of a minor, you arc ruined. To jections to trying the occasional slam avoid this debacle six panelists put up with a couple of Aces missing; but if the !>hullers with 3!'-:T, but the more you are going to try, then at least you popular choice, Three Hearts, seems should bid 4NT first. You don't have llCIIer to m;:, being economical of to take any notice of partner's reply, bidding space, implying a five-card but the opponents might wen be fooled tliamond suit and suggesting values in into thinking that you have not got two hearh. If partner holds spades he can top losers. This ruse was developed hid 3NT (he has already shown diamond by John Collings, Britain's leading ~up port with his force after passing): authority on making slams with two 1f he docs not hold ~pades then the Aces missing. fourth-suit hid of Three Spades is Perhaps I have been severe on the available to him ~till below the level supporters of 3NT, but judex clamnatur of 3NT. cum IIOet'IU ah.wlritur. (!lfl'llllillg, "Thc• Furthermore, \lohen the hand was juc~Jtc' i.~ comlmmcd ll'hc'll the• ~:uilt,l' i 1 pbycd there was ab~olutcly no play for acquitlt•ci."-Ed.) ·1X Anslrer 10 (b): Three Hearts, 10; 3NT, Problem ~o. 3 (10 points) 6; Four Clubs, 5; Six Diamor.d·;, 4. J.m.p. ~coring, North-South vulner­ The panel's rote: II for Three H ;;arts; able, the bidding has gone: 3 for JNT (Mrs. Markus, Ie Dcntu ;:n~ SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST Dormer); 2 for Four C~ubs ~i·Ibr s kl ~~ 1 2+ and Buckley); for Stx DJJr.Dnds No 3+ Dble No (Smart). ? Many panelists could not f.c.c that South holds: the changed scoring made any dit1"crcr:c.c, +74 ~952 0 K8762 +Q 109 but some were prepared to rccor~ sidcr because, of course, to play iu Five What should South bid? Answer: Three Diamonds, 10; Three Diamonds (should Six be untcn~blc) w:>uld not be a disaster as in (a) .. Heart~, 6; Four Hearts, 5; Fot.;r Diamonds, 5; Four Clubs, 4. SHARPLES: "Three Hearts. No excuse The panel's rote: 9 for Three Dia­ now for bidding 3NT." monds; 3 for Three Hearts (Nunes, Having dismissed (a) summarily as Crown and le Dentu); 2 for Four Hearts "A rhetorical question," the editor puts (Vanden Borre and Crowhurst); 2 for more thought into (b) but comes up Four Diamonds (Mrs. Markus and with the same answer: Fox); I for Four Clubs (Buckley). DoRMER: "3NT. If partner's force­ I should like to take this opportunity after-passing were guaranteed to show a of thanking all those panelists who took strong suit as well as diamond support, the trouble to tell me that this would a case could be made for a slam try. have made a good problem at match­ The best move would be Four Clubs­ point pairs scoring. Nevertheless, there a definite slam effort and the one seems a certain amount of variation likely to elicit the only useful response in their answers. from partner: viz., Five Diamonds At pairs, of course, it would be better on some such hand as OAQxx +KQ for partner to scramble nine tricks with xxx. If the slam exploration did not hearts as trumJ:S than to make an fructify, Five Diamonds might possibly untroubled overtrick in Three Diamonds be safer than 3NT. for 130. At i.m.p. scoring this is "Unfortunately, partner may have unimportant. made the jump-bid-after-passing on As to whether a placid Three of a red something like: OAQJxx +Qxxx, and suit is an underbid-well, partner did the odds do not favour by-passing not open Two, and if East had passed 3NT." South might well have done the same. If the club suit were that bad, partner If North has got a powerful hand might have been better occupied in which for some reason could not be raising our diamond bid to three or opened with a Two-bid, then he will even four (if he were wildly distri­ have another chance to speak and game butional). could still be reached. Buckley also emphasises that Four REESE: "Three Diamonds. As you Clubs is apt to prove the most useful might have passed One He~ut you do sl~m try, encouraging partner to bid not have to get too busy. Those fo · ~ Diamonds if his clubs and trumps partners arc detestable who r.unish are both good. you every time you make a shghtly 49 risky call to contest a part-scon::." Problem ~o. 4 (10 points) SwJNNERTON·DYER: "Three Di:!- Mat~h-point pairs, love all, South monds. I do not fancy the chance~ of deals h1mself this hand: running nine tricks for 3NT, e·.-cn if +J is under me. Any other gar.1:.: is +AQ7l 'VAK105 0AK32 +Q absurd, since partner did not opr.n What should South open? Two Hearts." Answer: Two Clubs, 10; :--;r . 2 7 DoRMER:, "Three Diamonds. At One Diamond, 6; One Heart, 6. ' ' match-point pairs it might ha·.-e t-.•;cn The pand's rote: 6 for Two Clubs· close. As it is, only a teenage m:rv.vclf 4 for 2NT (Buckley, Barbour, Smart and would miss the Three Diamond bid." Dormer); 3 for One Diamond (Sharples Dram Stoker himself could root h::~vl! Besse and Reese); 4 for One Hea~ put it more pithily. (Nunes, Crown, Crowhurst and Swin­ nerton-Dyer). CRowN: "Three Hearts. Playing with the Conductor has some advant;;ges This hand appeared in last year's -1 remember holding the North har:d Charity Challenge Cup and maybe and saying at the time that I thought remembered by many solvers. In fact Three Hearts was best although Three it had an earlier history, as the C.C.C. Diamonds could also be made." Book of Hands recounts. In a practice session before the 1961 European You arc doubtless alluding to the fact Championships the British players that I bid Three Diamonds and absent­ reached ludicrous contracts in both mindedly went one down, whereas rooms, emphasising the difficulties in Three Hearts was relatively easy (as bidding strong three-suited hands by indeed was Three Diamonds). traditional Acol methods. The hand is VANDEN BORRE: "Four Hearts. A ideal for the Roman Two Diamonds, poor choice, I know. It will not be a showing 17-21 points and either a cast-iron contract but with a sound 4-4-4-1 or 5-4-4-0 shape. Using this partner it must stand a chance." weapon the trialists would have had no CROWHURST: "Four Hearts. If part­ difficulty in reaching an admirable Five ncr can clamber back into this auction, Diamond contract. However, the un· we must surely reward his unflinching lucky 100 Up panelists will have to do devotion. I couldn't honestly swear their best without this admirable weapon. that I wouldn't have given him a FILARSKI: "Two Clubs. Anything sporty Two Hearts over the club else may end in a disastrous part score. intervention, so I am certainly going If we find a worthless hand with North, to have a shot at game now." we will not be the only ones to plly Pity you weren't around in Manning in an impossible game. Moreover, Foster's day. (Sec Harry Ingram's after Two Clubs-Two Diamonds, Two article on page 10). You would have Hearts-Three Clubs, Three Diamonds been a natural for the pre-war England -Three Hearts I could always break team. the rules and pass.' Per1 laps t h e problem Fox: "Four Diamonds. Jf partner is really North's-should he show ~ ·nee of thiS holds five hearts he can try Four Hearts, four bad spades on a scqu~.: which will suit us. Jf he has a 4-4-4-1 type?" To I'< shape, then game in diamonds is PIIILLIPS: "Two Cluhs. ·. nds. possible." followed by 2NT over Two DJ.Imo so This may lead to 3NT with .inadcq:~ a tc Problem i\o. 5 (10 points) club protectio~ but at least, 1f thc.rc. :s ~ Rubber bridge, game all, the bidding ood major-su1t fit we shall not m1s., !t. has gone: g To follow Two Clubs with 2NT :•·iil SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST avoid filarski's dilemma. No No tv> 2+ BARBOUR: "2NT. In some W

. /"~,.H1ducted by G. C. H. FOX , ' . ~ · ' J.-:.'ze leading bridge teacher and columnist ~:'-' !ifinues his advice on tactics and. scoring t'iz · liiatch-point pairs contests . .

Last month we considered the tricks (700), so he took a chance problem of whether or not to on making 4NT. This bid could accept a penalty in match-point not be mistaken for Blackwood pairs. Here are two further .as he had already displayed examples of situations where it willingness to settle for 3NT. may pay to decline a penalty On another occasion West, because it may prove inadequate. not vulnerable, opened I NT and East-West were vulnerable and North, vulnerable, doubled. East held these . hands against non- passed and South held: vulnerable opponents: +K65 \?Ql087 OA643 +J6 WEST EAST Normally it would be correct + K 10 6 + A 5 to pass and expect to collect 500 \1 A Q 2 \? J 9 54 or 700. North should hold at 0 7 0 K 9 5 2 least 15 points and the partnership • A K J I 0 8 4 + Q 7 6 · should have 25 points, which The bidding proceeded: means that they can make game. SouTn Wr:.ST NORTH EAST If they defeat I NT by three tricks I 0 3+ No · 3NT (500) it may be a poor result. 40 No No 4NT Therefore there is some slight case All pass for bidding 3NT on the above It was obvious to East that hand, but on balance it would be South held great length in dia- correct to pass. If partner holds monds and was fully prepared to more than 15 points the penalty lose 500 (3 down) to save the may be 700. If he has a mini­ vulnerable game, worth 600. East mum and you collect only 500 was pretty sure he could make it may still be a good result, since 3NT, _but saw scant prospect of some hands with a con~bine~ 25 d fl tmg Four Diamonds by four points do not produce mne tncks. 55 I I

Ronald Crown di -. c:: : ~. - ~ ~ ~nd a rd British bidding and te~ts yo;J, _-; r;r_:·.·.lcdge with a spcci:tl quiz. · :: This molllh he adri·. c:,· .r;;! the suhject of penalty doubles.

It is very difficalt to lay down should gain ess the number of From these two hands we can tricks you will make in defence. deduce the following principles: An opening bid normally promises (a) When you double a low level two to three defen sive tricks and suit contract you must have fairly you can add these to the tricks good trumps. you expect to make yourself. (b) You should have a shortage For example: Partner opens One in your partner's suit. lfyou have Spade, right hand opponent bids length in his suit it is better to Two Clubs and you hold: +xx support him than double, for his <\/ KJx OQxxx .AQxx. With high cards arc Jess likely to take this hand you know that you arc tricks in defence. far ~tron g cr than your opponents 2. When your partner opens in points and that you have the the bidding and an opponent makin gs of three to four tricks overcalls I No Trump, you should in your own hand to add to double with g points or more. partner's C\pectcd two or thre~: At no trumps, points arc usually tricks. You also have four trumps the deciding factor and if you "hich will certainly make things have more points than your very dillkult for the declarer. opponents you will normally rnakc This is a very good double which more tricks. Your S points, plu ur partner's opening h ~d : will ua lly mean that ye1; · I];:.. .. ·c a ... improves on Dr. Johnson. 2 I minimum of points. : . :< .. It gives the bridge player both 3. If an opponent Of· U~~ \.~ ith a argument and understanding." pre-emptive bid, you · :..~ ·: d·~ ~o~tld (Manchester Guardian) double with ·about fcuF dr, five tricks in your hand and.r.c/ 'good THE uit. For example, right . hand BRIDGE PLAYER'S opponent opens Three. :: Hearts DJCfiONARY and you hold: +Ax}i >CJKJxx by TERENCE REESE OAxx +KQx. .. This is a good double. . Mayflower 21s. 4. In competitive situations it is frequently difficult to judge the · correct action. As I have said Clubs and partner doubles. Right­ before, it is usually better to bid hand opponent passes and you one more of your suit than to hold: double the opponents; even if (a) +AQxxx \/Axx OQxx +Kx your decision is wrong, the penalty (b) +KQJxxx \/KQx Oxxx +x should not be heavy. If, however, (c) +AKJxx \?AQJxx OKx +x you double the opponents and (a) With this hand you arc they make the contract, your happy to pass. Your opening loss will be quite considerable. In bid is sound and is well suited to these situations you should remem­ defence. You should obtain a ber too that your opponents arc good penalty. also guessing and may allow (b) This hand is . terrible for themselves to be pushed too Two Clubs doubled. You will be high. fortunate to provide more than A penalty double is not a one trick in defence and, e\'en command to partner to pass; it is though partner is expected to be ~nly a strong suggestion. Bridge short in spades, you should IS a partnership game, and a bid Two Spades. pc.nalty double says that you (c) This is a fine hand and Two tlunk that this will produce the Clubs will almost certainly go ~ s t score for your side, but the down. At the same time. you fi nal decision is always left to can be sure you will make game your partner. Examples: and possibly slam. and so you You open One Spade, your should make the of left-hand opponent bids Two Three Hearts. 57 BIDDING QUIZ You arc East on the following hands. What do ;, •:··.:. :<1 )'? r. sour11 WJ-_<;r NoRTI~ i:.AsT t+ 20 .. +KQxx <::?xx OAQxx +Jx x

2. SouTH WEST NoRTH ~~.\S T t+ JNT ': +x \?KQJx OAJxx +xxxx

3. SOUTII WEST NORTH EAST I+ 20 ? +xx <::?KQx OAJxx +Jxxx

4. SOUTII WEST NORTH EAST 1<::7 No t+ No 2<::7 No 4<::7 No No ? +Kxx \?AQxx OAxx +xxx

5. SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST

20 Dblc 2<::7 ••? +AQxxx <::?Qxx OAxx +xx

6. SOUTII WEST NORTH EAST I+ 20 Dblc No ? +KQxxxx <::?KQJx Ox +xx

7. Sou-t 11 WEST NORTil EAST t+ No 2+ 2<::7 ? +AQJxx <::?KQJx OKxx +x

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PLAYING WISE Continued Sometimes you can make a Do not worry: the 8 followed by negative discard from only one the 9 or 10 is as emphatic a dis­ suit and may be unhappy because couragement as the 2 followed your smallest card is a relatively by the 3. high one-for example, the 8.

RESULT OF JANUARY COMPETITION There were not many large scores this month the two parts of Problem 7 leaving ~lany. ~ompctitors out of phase with the panel.' The lead problem (No. 8) found a riTr'stngly large number of supporters for a passive spade lead, but the panelists at~~ ly reasoned that as partner could not hold a great deal South should make an ~:mpt to take or develop tricks in his own hand. Max. 100 ~Yin .n rr: J. K. P,nt:s, Two Ways, 46 Oak Avenue, Shirley, Croydon s~ -QU,l !ol'COIId • N F 1 ' . R· ~i ClloULART0!'-1, 55 Brautlcld Road, Strctforu, Manchester 83 · · Sllll.ltAN, 47 Co,Jsc Lane Hcauington Oxford SJ ()11 ll'r I •· r • • · 81·H t.H 1111-:Seorrs: Cmcow DEL BRIDGE (Trieste). J.lltnnnn, S2: J. E. GoRoos, 0 [)~y G '\" 1 '!SO~ (Holland), 80: G. P. LtTILFR, 79; J. T. NAYLOR, 78: A. Pf-~CoTI­ J. n~ , c~ GJ. I·K'J""L!E, l. G. SMITII, G. K. RussH.L, l\1Rs. T. S1Moss, 77; C. J. PAsKtss, p 1 C ' · · KRors (Holland) C. R. Tom> J. T. CHAI'MAS, A. A. WRIGHT, ' ' R:\1!111' , 7(>. ' ' 59 WISE Dan Burgess dcvcivrJs your card-play with lessons designed csr · •_; ,~ially for the improver. This month he rums to rite subject of defen­ sire signalling.

I want to introduce the subject Partner's Your of ~ignalling in defence but feel lead Dummy holding I ~hould begin with a warning. (1) K Qxx 43 It is a subject that seems to pro­ (2) K XXX Q74 voke a passion for the rococo in (3) K J98x Q 1042 many players, who allow their (4) K XX Q 7 4 3 2 natural good sense and skill to (5) 9 Kxx QJ 108x be submerged in an over-elaborate (6) Q A Kx 94 !lystem of scientific signals. Never­ When we want to encourage, theless, certain basic methods of we play the highest card whiclz we !tignalling arc necessary. call afford. This proviso is im­ Let us look first at the signals portant; many a contract has which we may usc when partner been luckily made because a leads. Before playing a card, defender has used for signalling a we ask ourselves whether we card needed for trick taking. want to encourage a continuation In (I) the Queen in dummy of the suit Jed, either now or later. shows that our partner's lead is The way to encourage is by from the Ace and King. We playing an unnaturally high losing want him to continue with the card. Sometimes this will be Ace and then lead another so suflicknt but more frequently that we can trump dummy's we shall confirm the message by Queen. So on his King we play playing a lower card next time our higher card-with chagrin the suit is played, thus completing that it is only the 4. Evc:n so. a "peter." partner may be able to "rc:ad'' it, In the following examples you and when we play our 3 on the arc defending against a suit next round the "pcta" will he contract:- complete. 60 In (2) we want him to \.('r:Lir;w:: the more imaginative play of the suit in the hope that ,.,-. ~ : can covering partner's 9 with our 10. make our Queen on thr:: ~('•: ~rd . In {6) we must first decide round. The 7 is the · o,l:~:/ ;. :·:Js whether or not it is important to ignal. < .·.· _ signal our doubleton. If not, In (3} we realise that d ·c~::j~:,:::1: · then play the 4 in case the 9 is is unlikely to have more · th~~i{a needed to prevent declarer making doubleton, but we may wan~ our extra tricks in the suit. (If partner partner to continue this i ~safc" has, for example, Q J I 0 x and suit rather than switch. nut · if declarer 8 7 6 x, the 9 might be a we play the 10 and partner con­ valuable card.) tinues with the Ace, we shall have to .play the Queen on the third Suit preference . signals round; declarer will trump this Another important use _of and the Jack in dummy will be signalling is to show "suit pre­ established. So, to maintain · our ference." Suppose you have to Q 10 tenacc over dummy's Jack, discard on either partner's or we play the 4; it is the highest declarer's long suit and you want card we can afford. to indicate to partner the suit you would like led. You can do this In (4) we sec that dummy can by discarding a high card in the trump the third round while our suit you want led, later confirming length in the suit makes it possible the message either by a ·"peter" that declarer may also have a or by discarding low cards in the doubleton. In that case he could other suits. Make sure, though, trump the third round in one that you can afford a high discard. hand and discard a loser in the Remember that with a thoughtful other. (This is called a "ruff and partner you can obtain the same discard" and it is usually highly effect by negative signals in the favourable to the declarer.) So suits you don't want. For ex­ despite the Queen we discourage ample:- . by playiJlg our lowest card, the 2. +AKQIO <::/742 0832 +­ . In (5) we may decide that this You have to discard on de­ Js a good safe suit to continue. clarer's fourth and fifth clubs in If dummy plays the King, we a no-trump contract. The +IO play the Queen. We can afTord is potentially valuable and cannot it, and a lower card may not be used for signalling. Instead ~e cm encouraging to partner. If you should discard 02 and <::/2. llJnmy plays low, we must make (Continued 011 page 59) (iJ CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS 5/· per line. Special terms for a scr!es

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