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Editorial S European Championship Table· 6 European Open Championship-First Half, by Harold Franklin 7-13 The Middle Game, by Albert Dormer .... .,. 19-23 No. 4 What do I Throw? Autour de !'Etoile, by Jean Besse ... 24-25 26 The Fleet Street Coup International Pairs Tournament-Order of Play 27 International Pairs Tournament-List of Entries ... 28-29 Former Champions in Action, by Rolf Boe ... 30-34 European Ladies Championship-First Half, by Alan Truscott 35-38 E.B.U. Master Points 38 ' ... 39-42 American .News-Letter, by Alfred Shei.nwold ... 42-43 Et tu, Sap ire? ...... 44-46 Sixty Years in the Game, by Philip R. Wolff ...... 46-48 The Second leg, by" Non-Expert " ... 49-50 Bridge Quarterly, reviewed by Terence Reese ... S0-51 One Hundred Up: September Competition ... 52-53 Across the Green Baize, by George Baxter ~ British Bridge World Agents ss Subscription Form 56 D' iary of Events 4 GAY CITY ber 8th I shall be introducing two We all loved Vienna. The of the overseas pairs in. a pro people, the life, the s ho ps~it :was gramme at 6.45 p.m. on the new all delightful. The orgamsat10n, Network Three {Third Programme after a shaky start, was good and wavelength). a great credit to a country with a ~m all membership. As to the THE SHOW MUST GO ON bridge, one must congratulate the In a letter that was received too Italians very heartily and say that late for publication in full, Mr. they were very hard- almost Geoffrey Butler puts the B.B.L's impossible- to beat. I don't case in respect of the cancelled want to anticipate Harold Frank trial match (see June Editorial lin's summary which will appear and Major Gibson's letter last next month, but r will say that the month). If all .Jhis points are British team ( 10 wins, 6 draws, conceded mine remains-that· a no losses) seemed to me to play as public match had been announced well as in any of the years when and should have been played, we have won; yet we were only whoever took part and whether third. or not it conformed to the regulations for the trial. FOUR AND TWO
The ladies declare that ' as the 1 play went they could have beaten - - HEARD AT VIENNA Denmark ,and have only them " Do you hear there's a prize selves to blame. Here, the critics for the most polite and gentle who said that the team was badly manly partner? l'm going all put together were justified in the out for that. "- Boris Schapiro. eve~t, for the captain relied almost To an opponent who had gone enhrely on four of the six players and ' down in four slams and while h the others never had a playing a fifth was fumbling at c ance to find their form . some length for a card he had dropped under the table:- RADIO RETURN ~ow we look ahead to the big " Monsieur, do you look for_ Pa 1rs t .ck? "-Charles ournament at Selfridges your twelfth tn ne~t month. On Tuesday, Octo- Guittotr. s '' Open Series
Played Won Lost Drawn !.M.P. V.P. 1 Italy ... 16 14 1 1 1,021 : ~ 541 29 2 Austria 16 12 2 2 984 : 670 26 3 Great Britain 16 10 6 0 947 :. 676 26 4 France .16 12 0 4 996 : 745 24 : t 5 Holland 16 10 3 3 813 : 789 23 6 Norway 16 9 1 6 895 : 773 19 7 Finland 16 5 5 6 938 : 868 15 l 8 Denmark 16 5 5 6 835 : 823 15 ~·. .~· · 9 Belgium 16 5 5 6 834 : 869 15 10 Lebanon 16 5 2 9 820 : 961 12 11 Germany 16 4 4 8 772 : 964 12 12 Switzerland· ... 16 . 4 4 8 784 : 987 12 : 13 Ireland 16 5 1 10 769 : 865 11 14 Spain ... 16 4 1 II 754 : 950 9 15 Iceland 16 3 3 10 748 : 1,035 9 16 Poland 16 I 6 9 751 : 927 8 17 Sweden 16 2 3 Jl . 689 : I 9)6 7
Ladies Series V.P. ' Played Won Lost Drall'n /.M.P. . i.. .. 1 Denmark 11 9 1 I 641 : 41 2 19 •' 17 . 2 Great Britain 11 8 1 2 630 : 433 16 3 Norway II 7 2 2 603 : 446 14 4 Belgium 11 6 2 3 558 : 467 13 5 Ireland II 6 I 4 560 : 500 • 6 Austria 588 : 575 11 II 4 3 4 10 7 Sweden I I 537 : 500 4 2 6 9 8 525 : 595 Switzerland II 3 3 5 8 477 : 578 9 Germany II 3 2 6 5 10 600 France II 3 7 455 : 5 : 665 11 Holland II 3 7 452 : 5 ., 12 Finland II 2 8 452 : 710 6 Etrropean . Open Championship-First Half By HA ROLD F RANKLIN
Round J To the purist the Reese-Schapiro Britain beat Denmark sequence:- by 26 /. M. P . 51- 2S. WESr EAST Reese and Schapiro, Konstam 10 and Meredith opened against 3+ Denmark, a middle of the table 3NT learn who are never easy to beat is more desirable than the and who were one of the few seemingly untutored teams to take a poin t from us when we were undefeated at 2+ Montreux. British supporters had 3NT some anxious moments when with its disrespect for " reversing Reese and Schapiro had a couple values " and its ragged spades. e.arly an d un a cc u s tomed However the 'first sequence per dtsasters in the Open Room. suaded North to a well-judged double. South led a heart and East dealer Nofth.South vulnerable Harold Franklin '"iU conclude NORTH this report, and give his summary, • 4 3 2 next ~ontb •
• .... j • • ~ l .. North dealer what out of tune_during the half [..o1t all match and although Great Britain NORTH gained 9 points from a slam mis + 108 62 played by their opponents, 9 ~ 10 ·, East (Rose) doubled. South bid North dealer One Diamond and West One North-South vulnerable spade. North raised to Two . NORTH Diamonds and Rose bid Three • 9 8 53 Diamonds. South bid a fourth ~ 965 diamond defensively and North. 0 Q9 completed the pre-emptive action + KJ83 with Five Diamonds. One might WEST EAST think that Rose, who had in + K 10 4 • 762 effect already bid Four Spades and ~ 2 ~ A lOB was clearly marked with a two- O K J 6 2 0 AJ0853 suited major, 'could well leave the + A Q 7 54 + 106 decision to partner. In practice SoUTH ·-·l however he too k the decision to + A Q J play in Five Spades himself and ~ K Q•J 7 4 3 was two down undoubted when 0 7 4 ;; Five Diamonds would have failed 9 2 + ' . by the same margin. In the This was the bidding in the , -. other room Meredith, in third Open room, where Schapiro was hand, chose the wrong moment West and Reese East:- , . for his pre-emptive opening of SoUTH WFST NORTH EAsT One Spade. East bid Three Hearts No No which was passed out. On the 1m Dbl. No 20 0 . v -- perung spade lead the declarer 2~ 30 3~ 50 ~d no difficulty in making eleven No No No . ... tncks on a hand on which any This was a well-found contract, ga_me contract would normally but after Barry O'Connell had led fall. , ~K Reese found the trump Queen In the second half Reese and and developed a long club for the SchapR ·Iro played in the Open discard of the third spade. Barry ?~m against the brothers O'Connell, who was South, was 0 nnell, and Gardener and quick to reproach himself for n_ot Rose contmued · in the closed malcing the more construe t 1ve room.in fi Both nnlls · · h pa1rs . were lead of + A: tt· was cer tm ·n that of ?e form and the final margin one of the opponents would have ThVIctory' wa s a comfortable one. a single hear L Britis~ Was one hand on which the At the other table the Irish adv players showed to better · playc;_d in Three No Trumps and antage:- , were two down . SouTH WEST ' NORTH • EAsJ Rose Bustros Gartknn Britain drew with Lebanon, -,r..._. 52-49 . No 1\? 1. Without in any way detracting '20 .3+ Dbl. No from the merit of a splendid per 4\:) No ,4+ No formance by a very mu.:;:h 5+ No 6'\J No improved Lebanon, one can say No No ' that the British team showed little are not content to sit quietly at to justify its high reputation. The the table to offer a Roman · Lebanese bid up their cards with (Parisian .or London) holiday. confidence but not recklesness South's bid of Fou,r Hearts ·was and though some of the games an unsatisfactory effort, particu they landed may have been thin larly when an alternative bid of their results were earned, as on Four Clubs seemed marked and this hand where they clearly even over Six Hearts South might outbid their opponents. have justified the Seven Heart bid West dealer which he rejected after long North-South vulnerable consideration. · At the other table more NORTH " orthodox " methods by East + A \:) AK9762 West gave the big hands a free ride, which they took via the 0 52 + KI093 following route:- WEST EAST SOUTH NoRTil + J 9 8 6 + K1043 Fa to JrtiJOII .,.' 1\? I' \:) J 10 \:) 8 2+ 0 J 64 0 QI09,83 4\? 3\? 4NT . + 654 2 + QJ7 5\:) SOUTH 60 SNT + Q7 52 No 7\? \:) Q543 From North's point of vieW AK7 be 0 there could conce1va. bl Y handsh + A8 on which a third club in the So~l East's light nuisance bid and hand mtght. present d 1·fficuiUCS. d 11 West's bluff of Three Clubs made but after the forcing response ?y . dd re heaVI1 North-South's task a heavy one heart ra1se the o s we a for but that is the style of the present on there being 11 good pi Y championships. The lesser teams thirteen tricks. ., 12 -. Tht Rtgional Ediwr ll'atches the Editor play to the third hole at Liphook, Surrey. Jt ftappe""! to hislwps. Photos b.v Claud,. Rotlrlru'- . 0 0 With an interval lead of six Meredith, bid ·the inev.itablc ~~ points, a minimum winning and North bid One No Trump margin, the British position, raised to Three by South. ~ seemed reasonably safe, but the 3 of Spades was an opening ·lead Lebanese standard was such that which gave the declarer little a couple of thin adverse games or worry and with an accurate a 'couple of poor views might assessment of the holding he jeopardise such a slender produced four tricks in the suit advantage-!ls it did. and coasted home with' ten tricks. In the other room Reese received Round V the less helpful opening of the Britain beat Norway Queen of diamonds, taken by the by 19 !.M.P., 51 - 32 Ace and the two returned. Since A strong Norwegian team which this marked West's holding as had already accounted for France either two or four cards Reese in no uncertai~ manner found won at once and played the Ace the Reese-Schapiro, Konstam and a small spade. The play of Meredith combination. in good the Ace of clubs on the first round form . An early.Meredith psychic of the suit saw the declarer safely bid might have had costly results : home, +J providing the ninth Dealer West trick. Game all In a recent issue of the BBW NORTH Reese presented several unusual • Q1062 plays with Jx. He applied his ~ AJ9 own precepts to good advantage 0 97 0 \ on this deal:- • 98 63 See next page. WEST EAST Schapiro opened a weak No • 19 + K73 Trump and Larsen, jfor Norway, ~ 8654 ~ ·10 3 2 bid Three Clubs. East bid Three \) QJ8653 0 A2 . Diamonds, giving North a seco.nd . Q • K 10542 chance with Three Hearts, whtch SOUTH was raised to game. + A8 54 The opening lead of OK w~ ~ KQ7 ruffed in hand and two rounds ~ 0 K104 clubs played. When the 5~~ • AJ7 broke evenly the declarer lat · h con· East opened One Club in third down the Ace of hearts Wtt . hand and South doubled. West, fidence which was somewhat dtS· 14 SoUth dealer spade and the third heart to L.o\t all register a hair-raising success. A NORTH heart lead by West, when in with would have destroy,.,~ , f! • A6 +K. '"f ~r t r:;;A7 5 2 entries for the squeeze, tfto 1f 0- West had led VIQ he might have + A K iO 9 8 53 brought off a notable coup. WEST EAST Round VI +K9 8 7 + J 42 \? Q 6 4 Britain beat Sweden " J 3 by 19 !.M.P.: 56-37 0 KQJ7 0 A98643 • Q7 + J 6 Sweden, fo r so many years one SOUTH of the strongest teams in the ;. • Q 10 53 Championship are this year r:;;KI098 serious contenders for the wooden 0 105 2 sp : on and the British team was + 43 able to relax in the comfort of a substantial interval lead. Although turbed by the appearance of the they lost four points in doing so apparently single Knave. The declarer now took safety pre cautions which permitted West La Revue Beige two trump tricks, one more than du the defence would have otherwise made. Bridge In the other room West opened One Diamond and North, Kon stam, overcalled with Two Dia Un programme complet pour monds. East helped the party amateurs et experts along with Three Diamonds and Direction technique : Meredith · h . • Wit an open mmd A. Flnklesteln about e1·th er maJor. su1t. b1d . a fourth o· ' b Iamond and was startled Abonnement annuel yh Konstam's leap to Six Clubs T e d. · (12 num~ros) Iamond lead was ruffed and 220 rrs. bel&el f a ter dr awmg. trumps the declarer PI 3 s Yed th c Ace of spades and a Pade to h sque . t e 10, subsequently ezmg west With. the fourth 1.5 they were never seriously pressed . The luckless East gave South 1 Reese's restrained methods pro rich reward for his prudence. duced an excellent result on the In the second half Schapiro anct' ''· Konstam played in partnership .~ ' f"'t!filwing board:- •... "~ e' ' J,. without affecting your reporter's North c1ealer confidence in the view that East-West game Britain's best chance rests in the NoRTH reliance on three established com- , • 11 binations. ~ K5 0 AQ 1074 Round VII + KQ 104 Britain drew with Poland WEST EAST plus 3, 67-64 • Q1073 + K86 When Great ~ Britain Jed by ~ 19.6 ~ A twenty-two points at the interval 0 65 0 KJ9832 there appeared to be little danger + 96532 + AS from a team who, in their first SoUTH cha1J1pionship, showed a Jack of + A952 ·regularity which was likely to ~ Q 10 8 7 4 3 2 offset the reasonable standard of 0- their card play. An early venture + 11 gave them a good swing but SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST without inspiring too much 10 No confidence. 1 ~ No 2+ No NoRTH 2 ~ No No 2+ • 9 3 2 Obi. No No No ~ Q652 In the other room So'uth had O AK764 made the second round bid of + 2 Three Hearts, by no means a n W EST EAST abnormal bid, and had been • J 6 • Q75 4 raised to a game contract which ~ A 1 10 9 ~ 743 had failed by one trick. The 0 QJ 5 3 0 J082 princi ple as demonstrated by + 8 4 3 + Q95 Reese is one which can bear SouTH restating- when faced with the + A K 10 8 choice of an underbid or an over ~ K 8 bid it pays to keep something in 0 9 hand by making the underbid . + A KJ 10 76 16 ,. .. . NoRTH EAST NURTII SoUTH Wrsr I 2+ No 30 No + QS 4+ No 4 A reader asked fo r an article West's Queen of Spades holds - on how to discard to declarer's the first trick, East playing the long suit. As the Ed 1tor remarked, g and South the 6. At trick two, this branch of the game does not the Jack of spades is headed by lend itself to " rule of thumb" East's King and South's Ace. treatment and each deal requires Now the diamonds are run, South special consideration. However, having the doubleton King. the following hands may help to West must not let go a spade suggest what defenders should but his other cards, the clubs look for. included, are expendable. East First, and this is the key to must be assumed to have the Ace of Hearts and the King of successful defence, try to count .:: declarer's tricks. It will often Cltibs, for either of these cards be clear that, unless partner has would give declarer nine tricks. _, certain cards, there is nothing to East has also a third spade ... be done. Discards can then be without it, he would have un made on the assumption that bl~cked with the King on the first partner has those cards. round of the suit. N ORTH Declarer ~ay have some such • 7 5 4 hand as this: \? Q 6 + .A6 0 AQJ973 )tseemed clear from the bidding a suit headed by a sequence, and play that South had a flat the top card can sometimes be band with "'tOxxx. It appeared spared-an informative discard also that South must have either that may save partner much the Ace and King of spades or needless thought:- one top spade and the King of NORTH hearts. + KJ82 : . ,, Dummy's heart discard on the y> 9 8 2 ' third round of diamonds was a 0 K65 fairly sure indication that South + 963 had not the King of hearts, for WEST EAST then he would play on dummy's • 63 + 5 .._, hearts for the ninth trick. West, y> KQJ53 y> 7 64 therefore, discarded his last dia 0 10943 0 72 mond on the third round of clubs + KQ + J 10 8 7 5 42 and when declarer came to hand SoUTH with + K to cash his fourth club, + AQ 10974 West shed a small heart. .z y> A 10 -.. ~. Declarer held:- 0 AQJ8 .· + AK9 + A NORTH ~ 97 3 SoUTH 0 AK5 2+ 4+ • 10 9 6 3 50 60 No .,.,.. . !o that a spade discard by West 7+ would have permitted dummy's North's Four Spades was inten f~urth spade to be set up for the ded to show good trumps and nmth trick. no Ace, but his hand was not 1". the above hands, it was good enough for that manoeuvre, 7s~tble to form a definite con let alone the subsequent cue bid e! Uston. More often there are in diamonds. 00 , it is ~any unknown factors and West led y>K and on the third, high JUSt a ~atter of saving the fourth, and fifth rounds of trumps • small cards, . throwing away the he discarded hearts. The sixth be ones and hoping for the trump put him in difficulties, but po~t. Even then there are small he correctly decided that declarer obtnts of technique which are not could not have O'AQu or AJxx, ins7rveq by all players. For since then he would have drawn ' ' ance, when discarding from two rounds of trumps and ruffed ·. 21 ..' ' even if there is a lower Card could easily be read as a signaL Perhaps once in a thousand hands you will misjudge the position THE AMEKI CAN - and jettison a card that would ' subsequently have proved useful, WORLD but on many more hands your BRIDGE partner will gain valuable nega tive inferences, as mine did on Subscriptions the following hand from a pairs (or One Year- D. 0 0 contest:- Two Years - - £3 3 0 NORTH + K53 Sole Agent In Great Britain : ~ 987 0 AJ5 1\fn. RW Markus 5 Dnail Maoaiona, Daail Street, S.W.3 + K643 WFST EAST • Q4 + Al0972 ~ J 10 64 1\1 AQS ' 0 8 63 0 Q 1092 the fourth diamond. (Inferences + 8 7 5 2 + to of that kind are very often avail- SoUTH able to the defenders). \Vest, + J 8 6 therefore, temporised by discard- ~ K 3 2 ing diamonds. But eventually 0 · K 7 4 he had to ungard + K or throw + A Q J 9 the best heart and, although he SoUTH NoRTH guessed correctly, no thanks were !NT (IJ- 15) 2NT due to East who discarded small No 3NT clubs and hearts with a dejected Q n · A heart was led to the uee air. d fi n~ Had East spared the Jack of and King and a diamon clubs at an early stage, his partner lost to East. Hearts were cleared~ · d'ffi dummy discarding a club, Ens wou ld h ave b een m no 1 1cu 1t y. Another useful idea, particu- + tO and declarer + 6. larly when playing with your West knew declarer held dt~e · East's JS· regular partner, is to make it a Jack of spades, smce . rd . d thiS C3 ' rule always to signal with the card specifically dente • b f olll highest card that can be spared, After the discard of a clu r 22 down. WFST EAST . .. If East had signall t=d with 7 A94 + + + 3 ..• , West would very likely have led ((}QJI04 ((} 9852 +Q, since a passive lead would 0 K72 0 1064 cost tricks if East hJd the Jack + Q 108 + 97542 • of Spades in addition to the Ace, SouTH and declarer had a doubleton. + KQ8762 ·. On the actual hand, of course, \?A 7 3 thelead of +Q wou ld have given 0 AJ declarer an eighth trick. + AK The defender who discards first should be particularly careful, the Ace cashed and the third even if he has a number of idle round of the suit ruffed. Now cards. His partner may soon be trumps were played, West taking under pressure and in need of the second round and exiting with information. For instance, if a a heart. . ~efender has no significant hold- East correctly dsicarded his tngs in two suits he should diamonds at the earliest oppor normally be careful to discard tunity. When the 10 went and from both suits as soon as was followed by small club~, West possible. The discarding oftwo knew that declarer held OJ. or. three small cards from one Without this help, he would not 5~ 11 only would raise a presump- have known which minor suit to ~on that he had something to u~guard at trick nine, to hold ook after in the other suits. declarer to eleven tricks. Finally h . Whiie the principle is simple bel . , ere IS another way of enough-dt'scarding a whole suit Ptng a partner who is under Pressure :- to give partner a count-a little S thought may be necessary in ee next column 1 be choosing the suit. It wil PlayedAt rnat . ch -pomted · pairs, South seen that, on the above h an d , bad tn Four Spades after West there was not time to convey a 'lbe:pened a weak No Trump. similar message by discarding .. eart lead was won in dummy, the club suit. ,. ~· 23 -. Autour de L' Etoile By JEAN BESSE . Ostend who stayed a few moments ·in Magnificently invited by Mr. Ostend during his European Vandenborre for the tournament journey. in the famous Belgian resort, I All I can say is that Charles ,is acquainted myself with more than as great a player as his tremendous one (for me) new thing. reputation tells. The first is the big size of the The following deal produced resort and of everything in Ostend, some trouble:- including the largest and most Game all modem Casino I ever saw. But South dealer the most interesting feature for NORTH bridge players is, no doubt, that. + AJ654 20 (or 100, I don't know) caf~s, r:) AKQ2 restaurants, bars are still oJM:n at 0 A654 3 a.m., after the play, where all + - •• post · mortems " are merrily WFST EAsT going on, and where you can order • 10 8 + KQ73 hot meals like in the middle of (a) I was tempted to bid Six tract is completely safe). We Diamonds at that point. play two more rounds of hearts discarding a spade, then play + A ·. (b) Goren intended of course and ruff a spade. Now we rely ....·. to bid Seven, had South given entirely on the spades being 3-3. any sign of strength over his Also, for this line to succeed the ' ' opening. hearts must stand up for three The ~ 10 was led. Playing rounds. relatively safe for S i~. I ruffed a The alternative play is to win small club. Ace and King of with ... As parl of the celebrations to commemorate the !25th anniversary of the granting to Thomas De La Rue & Co. Ltd. of Letters Patent for the Manufacture of Playing Cards by the typographical process an ,- International Pairs Tournament for the • I " Brit ish Bridge World Cup " will be played at Selfridges, Oxford Street, London, W.l , 011 October 9th, lOth and 11th, 1957. Order of Play First session, Wednesday at 10.30 a.m. Boards 1- 15. • < Second sess1on, Wednesday at 2.15 p.m. Boards 16-30. • ! Third session, Thursday at 10.30 a.m. Boards 31-45. Fourth session, Thursday at 2.30 p.m. PAR CONTEST, Boards 1- 8. Fifth session, Thursday at 4.30 p.m. PAR CONTEST, Boards 9-16. Sixth session, Friday at 10.30 a.m. Boards 46-60. Seventh session, Friday at 2.15 p.~. Boards 61-75. Presentation of Prizes at 5.0 p.m. Commetrtator in the Exhibition Hall Terence Reese Clrief To11rnament Director Harold Franklin Official Referee Geoffrey L. Butler Match Manager Mrs. A. L. Fleming Chief Stewards P. R. G. Charters and A. Lederer , Editors of the Par Contest Terence Reese and Harold Franklin Appeal Committee _ L Tarlo, H. Filarski, P. Juan ' I .' ~~British · Bridge WOrld'·Cup"- , t • • Coulltry Players Austria ~ l ng Karl Schneider Max Reithoffer Belgium M .... A. Finckelstein N. Savostin Brazil Dr. U. Vianna Filho Mrs. U. Vianna Filho Denmark Kai Blicher Axel Voigt Eire ... W. J. L. O'Connell Desmond Houlihan . England A. Meredith B. Schapiro England Bernard C. Westall Kenneth W. Konstam "' Finland ... L. Runeberg A. Meretoja France Pierre Albarran Henri Svarc Germany Egmont von Dewitz Kurt Rachwalsky · Holland " Dr. F. W. Goudsmit Dr. E. C. Goudsmit Iceland Oli Orn Olafsson Robert Sigmundsson ' Italy .~L8~. E. Chiaradia M. D'Alelio 28 ·' Players Country Zvonko Cebalo Jugoslavia Antun Markovinovic Bruce Bell New Zealand Rex Evans Northern Ireland Not yet k'1101VII Norway ... Bjorn Larsen Odd Larsson Poland Not yet known Portugal George H. Black Mrs. George H. Black Scotland ... Dr. Y. Forbes J. M . Maclaren · South Africa A. Chassay Mrs. A. Chassay Sweden ... R. Kock · Einar Werner .... Switzerland Jean Bt;sse • J. Ortj ~-Patino .. . I United States H. Sanborn Brown Martin C. Cohn United States Charles H. Goren Mrs. Helen Sobel •" \ Wales Not yet known . . .' ln the Par Contest Meredith will play with L. W. Dodds. .. ' 29 .. Former Champions I.n Actio11 By ROLF BOE All the hands described in this article by a Norwegian writer were played in European Championships before 1939. Readers may like to compare them with such brilliancies as may be reported from the current championship. It will always be an open NORTH question whether former cham • J9754 pions of bridge were better than ~K the present ones or not. In 0 AKQ6 competitions where the result + A62 cannot be measured by means of WEST EAST stop-watches or tape-measures, • Q32 + AKlO it will always be impossible ·to ~ 8 3 ~ J 542 say. Neither is it my purpose to 0 10 7 4 3 0 J8 I do so; my sole intention is to + KQ94 + 8 7 53 present a number of deals played SouTH by former champions. • 86 The Austrian players Hans ~ AQ 10976 Jel/inek and Kurl Schneider be 0 9 52 fore the war were considered the + JIO best partnership in the world. Schneider was-and still is, so in Stockholm, where the boards fl\f as I know-a player full of were duplicated and played at all initiative who constantly exhibited the tables. With very few excep surprising and aggressive bids tions all pairs reached a four ' 5 . ' and defensive plays. Jellinek was Heart contract but Schneider wa a partner who fitted him like a the only one to make. He got '·· glove; a keen psychologist, the opening lead of the King of capable of logical reasoning and clubs and" had a hunch" that the elastic bidding, always catching hearts were split 4-2. Anyway, on when his partner got going. he decided to play on that assu~p- This board was played in 1936 tion and ducked the opentng at the European Championship lead. 30 t .... West switched to trumps, NORTH dummY won and Jed a small + A64 spade. East won with the King ~ KJ0754 and led clubs. Dummy played 0 10987 the Ace and another spade was + 3 led. East won with the Ace and WEST EAsT led a third round of clubs. + QJJ082 + 95 Schneider ruffed, cashed the <:? 986 <:? QJ2 Queen of trumps and entered 04 0 KJ 32 dummy with a diamond. A spade + QI062 + AJ75 was ruffed and dummy again SOUTH entered with a diamond. The + K73 position was now:- The Congress will Include two Teams-of-four events, Champion ship Pairs over three sessions for all competitors, Ladies' Open Pairs Champ ionship, and the usual Open Pairs (aggregate and match-pointed). ' · 250 PRIZES Entries and all correspondence to: · Mr. W. W. L. Fearn, "Stillington", Hoole Road, Chester ' since East held the AlO of dia- NORTH monds over dummy's K 7. + AK 7 58 ~ Q4 This deal was played by the 0 8 Norwegian Johannes Bruun as +AK753 long ago as 1933 :- WEST .EAsT See uext column. • 9 8 62 • QJ 104 ~ A63 Bruun was South and had ~ 75 reached a contract of Four Hearts. 0 A K 10 7 4 OQ • J9642 I West led the King of diamonds • Q 10 a~d shifted to a trump. East won SoUTH With the Ace and continued another trump. Bruun won in ~ K J 10 9 8 2 dummy, cashed the Ace and King ·0 -J96532 of spades and ruffed a low spade. +8 ,, ~ext the remaining trump was •r ' ~~wn, dummy entered with the Bruun discarded a diamond. East ·1 •ng of clubs and a low spade had nothing left but clubs an~a~ 1cd . East played the Queen and the Ace of clubs and the es -- 33 Jished spade declarer's remaining NORTH diamond losers disappeared. + A ~ Q73 My final deal is from the 1935 championship in lJrussels : 0- NoRTH + 5 WEST EAST AQJ + • 8 ~ Q73 ~5 ~ J 1094 0 1064 0 J7 ·0-- + K954 + 3 , WEST EAST + 6 SOUTH • 8 62 • 104 ~5 ~Jl094 ~ AK862 0 A KJ 7 3 0 9 82. ·- +QJ103 + A 762 <> · SOUTH - + - + K9 7 53 As will be seen, Klein (with ~ AK862 some help from the defenders) o· os has effected a reverse dummy + 8 play, but all is not yet over. A small heart from South to the Geza Klein of Jugoslavia was Queen followed and when the South and played a contract of Ace of trumps in dummy was led, Four Spades after an opening bid East was squeezed. of One Diamond by West. The opening lead was the King of Thus was West punished for diamonds and to the next trick not killing the innocent +5when West switched to + Q. Declarer he was in with the 10. ducked and when West continued the Jack, South played the King in dummy. East covered with the Ace and South ruffed. FOR SALE Dummy was entered with a or PARTNERSHIP or TO LET trump and on + 9 dcclurer dis AVENUE BRIDGE CLUB carded OQ. West won but the 15 Third Avenue, Hove . Ace of diamonds was ruffed by 'Phone:· Hove 35020 The .Proprietors co.nte.mplate South. Dummy was again en retirement and now mv1te ap tered with a trump and the last plications for the above on long diamond was ruffed. lease. A very nice Flat can be available. The position was now:- 34 ·.· by ALAN TRUSCOTT Round I to Three Diamonds and . West Britain beat Belgium ventured Three No Trumps. by 18 !.M.P., 56-38 North led ~3 to dummy's ~J The team started with a vital and South's ~Q. The Belgian match against the Belgian ladies declarer held off twice and even who so nearly won the Cham with .the help of the diamond finesse could only make 7 tricks. pionship title in Sockholm. 2 I points down at half-time, they Mrs. Gordon did better by win- gained heavily in the second half. ning 'the first trick, taking the 71.M.P. came on this hand, when diamond finesse-vital because of Mrs. F. Gordon landed an the suit-block-and running all optimistic contract with the help the diamonds. North threw her of a defensive error:- black losers and was put in with North dealer + A. Now came a surprising Game all suicide: North led her ~K. and NORTH South unblocked with her ~ 10. + AJ9 The fault is North's, for West is ~ K8732 unlikely to have ~ 10 unless it is 0 Q6 bare, in which case South could + A64 . have thrown nt least one heart. WEST EAST The other results improved the • 43 • KQ107 British position, for of the most \1 A94 \7 J 6 fancied teams the Danish ladies 0 A85432 0 KJ 10 lost and the French only just +Ks . + J 9 8 7 scraped a draw. •• .. 1 SOUTH + 8 6 5 2 Round ll •· I· ~ Q 10 5 Britain beat German)' ...... 0 9 7 by JO /.M.P., S0-40 + Q 10 3 2 After leading by 17 points nt In both rooms North opened half-time, the British ladies h~d ,0 ~e Heart and West protected to struggle in the second half, 10 With Two Diamonds. East raised which the first 3 boards cost them 35 . . . 18 I.M.P. 7 of these were on four clubs with declarer,' v.lb this board, where either defender club and le~d a small spade for could have broken the contract, the killing force. East requires although the defence is most even more inspiration to play a difficult:- spade, as she has little information. Mrs. van Rees and Miss Shanahan South deale'r Game all have been in fine form, and most NoRTH of us would wish our own mistakes • Q82 to be as difficult to demonstrate. • E.B.U. Master Points The. Master Points Secretary has circulated to all Associations and Licensed Clubs a Register of all players -approximately 920-who, at August 20th, had attained the rank of Club Master or better. From October on\vards a complete list of Local Masters and upwards will be published in the British Bridge World every month. - 38 ,-..:: ~- 16··-- . ~ ,• "'"4 ...... ",I ., ... '": •• ' , t, ....• r • ., .. - '. American NeWs-Letter · By ALFRED SHEINWOLO The big news of the American championship next January. This national tournanwnt, just con: gave Johnny five of the six cluded, is that the Crawford team national team titles. He was 11ill represent thf· A.C. B.L. in unable to play in the sixth since January against the winner of the the Men's and Women's team E.B.L. tournameu t. events are conducted at the same Members of the Crawford team time. are B. J~y Becker, George Rapee, The tournament marked the end and Sidney Silodor, as in the of the regulation that made the past, with the additton of AI Roth team winners automatic selectees and Tobias Stone. Crawford and to represent the A.C.B.L. in the Rapee are to play in their fourth world championship. According world championship match, hav to the new rule, there will be. a _ ingwon at Bermuda 1950, Naples playoff between the winners of 195J , and New York 1953. Becker the Vanderbilt Cup and · the played in 195 1 and 1953 · Silodor winners of this August • event . ' ' In 1950. Roth played with a (Spingold Cup). ~ifl'ere nt team, losing to England Had the new rule been in effect ID 1955. this year, there would have been The victory gave Crawford also little change. Crawford, Becker, a grand slam in U.S. national Rapee and Silodor won the team competiton. Last Decem Vanderbilt, with Schenken as their ber he began the string by winning fifth. This year Schenken played the Open and Men's team events in the August tournament with ' both , scored at board-a-match. Goren, Mrs. Sobel, Leventritt, H~ ~x t e nded it in February by Koytchou, and Ogust. This team, ~tnnmg the total-point contest much the same as the sextet that t the Harold S. Vanderbilt lost to Italy in January, · was Tu p. He next won the Mixed knocked out just before the round th~~ event at the beginning of robin began. ~I d ugust tournament and con- Seventy-two teams entered. ' u ed · ' Xn ll by winning the Master Knockouts reduced the field to in OCkout Team event thus earn- six teams, after which a r~und & the right to play i~ the world robin fauna each teum plnymg a 39 1 1 •: - ,, i :\:• --;.,'l'·'·J ·t._ ~ .. t"'f 4 \ ~.,·j; l,{t/cJ1 ~ .. ;. -··. ·,··•,- · ;.;4 • ~ ·., \ ~ 'l• ~"iri",'(~';S!!• \: ~l,'r,,.: .;, ~ i.~:l. -~'.' "~·.. '•-•~ :·., :.'.',~~~ .... "'. · ... I.~ ;I,,' r I ..:."/ f". ","'. \.; '~ tf:\• : •• ' •. "'. · ;~board - match ,. ag~i~st e~ch of 14 'boards. Stone and.Roth r the other teams. ' ed up points on the first 13 boards. About all that c~n be said about -Then came the fateful last board:· the round robin is that the Craw- North dealer Both sides vulnerable . . ford team deserved to win; they played less miserably than the · ... NORTH other teams. A strong Canadian + AQJ 108 .. .: team unaccountably suffered from C:, K86 .. I : .. the delusion that it was a doormat 0 65 through the first four sessions but + QJ 10 came to life in the final match in SOUTH time to knock the stuffings out of + K 73 the writer's team. A , Jacoby C:, A J 10 team played spottily. A team 0 A K 10 3 - headed by Mrs. Sally Johnson + AK2 (who plays something very like N ORTH SoutH the Baron System) beat Crawford Stant! Rotlr by ISO points and us by 50 points. No 2NT The sixth team, consisting of only 4NT ,. 4+ ,, four players, very nearly beat S+ SNT · Crawford in the last session-in 7NT No which case Jacoby would have Four Clubs and Five Clubs taken the championship and the were, of course, Gerber. Seven boat-ride to· Europ~. No Trumps was, of course, ..' If this sounds confusing, it is insanity. . not by mistake. The round When the dummy came down ·robin, after a tame beginning Roth murmured " Here goes our . ( i ;.. developed into the wildest melo trip! " And he was very nearly drama-even to the last-board right. grand slam that settled a crucial Roth got a good workmanlike - l match. count, discovering that West had Crawford began by beating started with four of the seven Jacoby and the writer in successive missing hearts. He finessed · that matches. These were supposed through West, discovenng to be his difficult matches. In the Queen of hearts is a verJ the next match, against Mrs.' elusive lady. Down two, for a Johnson, Crawford led bv about loss of 200 points.* 1,500 points going into the last At . the other table, · pedro 40 Cabral played Seven Spades. This sur~rising when Rubinow manag ed to get game both ways of the .,s 110t insanity, since his team • table, as on this board:- 15 far behind and needed an iJnmense swing to catch up. North dealer Precisely for this reason, Pedro Both sides vulnerable ~ a yed the Queen or hearts to be · NORTH in the short hand, making his + A KQ62 pnd slam for a s.:ore of 2,310 A reply to II Maestro, What have you done to me?" . Dear Mr. Sapire, D. and K. certainly made one of How nice to hear from South their " rare mistakes," since it is Africa, and how grateful I am for difficult to imagine a sla!ll more . the kindly appellation (friends). easy to bid, a fact already noted May I say that this is warmly by some 99 per cent. of bridge appreciated and reciprocated since players. In fact, last time that I your reputation has for some went into the bar of my club there time preceded your welcome con was a wide-eyed fanatical expert tribution to our magazine. pronouncing his considered judge . Fortunately, as I believe, I am ment on this very hand which one of those rarae aves in the another fanatical expert had bridge world whose dignity does placed in front of him scribbled not become mortally offended by on a small and grimy morsel of criticism. The only thing how paper. He was slightly discon· ever that I do stipulate is that I certed and was about to crumple expect my critics to take the replies it up when I peered over h!s · in the same spirit. - shoulder with the remark : "Don. "t tear it up, you will need it agatn. With regard to the hand you quote, I am afraid that your Of course the hand is simple to comments have disappointed me. ·bid but not in the way suggested . who To borrow a favourite expression by most of the pun dtts of the editor of this magazine, invariably kibitz much better than 42 ..... - ... .. • they play, nor indeed. by the use , ' . J X of asking bids which you helpfully ~ AQxx suggest that I should Jearn. These 0 Kxx 1was forced to unlearn before I • J lOx X felt competent to play bridge. Your own sequence I am sorry ...· Let us remi nJ ourselves of the to say is even worse. The idea . ' cards :- ofbidding Two Clubs on the North NOR "Ill hand after a pass must, to put it • A X mildly, be placed in the category \/ l\. 8 xx of bridge lunacy since if South has 0 109 2 opened on a minimum the hand + A 10 X X is in grave danger of being passed SOUTil out and played in the only part + KQI0974 score not on. · \/- Furth· rmore I am afraid that • 0 A X your psychology may easily be + KQ983 faulty unless your wife is a con The most sensi ble way to bid siderably better player t~an some ·-· the hand is:- of my weaker partners who would I+ never dream of bidding again over -·.. -· 3+ Four Spades. Nor would they 40 6+ bid again with a hand like or if South feels willing to take the small ri sk that North has raised clubs on the AJx (in which case there may be a loser in diamonds) he can safely bid Seven. North must surely have the tv.o hlack Aces, to raise clubs and th en bid Four Spades. An yone who suggests to me the Popular sequence ,. 2NT 4+ 5+ 6+ forgets that North could have some such hand as 43 By PHILIP R. WOLFF In 1947 I was waiting to take The first edition of the Laws was . part in a bridge broadcast after published ih 1895, the game winning the Inter-City Champion having been introduced to the ship with Ralph Evans's Bourne Club by Lord Brougham in the .. mouth team, when I happened to previous year. mention that it was my Golden Game was 30 up, and there was Jubilee of bridge. Terence Reese a bonus of 100 for the rubber, remarked that this would be a whether it was won in two games good point to make over the air. or three: Spades counted 2, Clubs Now I am celebrating my Dia 4, Diamonds 6, Hearts 8, and mond Jubilee and have been No Trumps 12. Later came asked to contribute some recol Royal Spades, value 9. lections. The dealer either nominated the I began serious card play ih suit, or No Trumps, or said: "I I 885 and for my eighth 'birthday leave it to you, partner." The my Aunt gave me a book by partner then selected the suit, or Dalton on Whist. bid No Trumps. The dealer In 1897 when I was on home always played the hands, dummy leave from Antwerp my Mother exposing his after the lead, as is said, " As you like Whist, there done now. is a new game of cards called The Left Hand opponent_ of " Bridge . " So, being already the declarer either said Double, keen on Solo, at which the Bel in which case the call could be gians were very expert- this game redoubled by the dealing side, or he asked his partner, " MaY 1 being played in nearly all the . d? •• leadings Cafes- 1 was introduced play to (the suit nommate · to Bridge. This, however, as His partner either sal' d : "Play far as I know, did not catch on in on," or he doubled. h 1 Belgium. There was no limit to ; The method of scoring then. number of times the deal coul was quite different from now. I be redoubled (but after the tu~ 1 am indebted to the Portland Club of the century a limit of · and to Mr. Geoffrey Butler for pomts. a tnc. k was fixed)· Ther'es reminding me of the details. were rules as to which player · 44 ... ~ ru~ it was to redouble ' if he was called " Contract " Bridge. ished (or re-re-double, etc.) '?I.• ' 11 This did not·catch on at all. I ,,..,.., There were no penalties for ' r. going down; either the dealing In the early thirties and on side or the opponents scored so wards I occasionally played Bridge many by cards below the line. and " PJ~ond " in Paris-some- . The bonuses fo r honours were times with the leading Jights. N ··: ,· · m y high in proportion to the bonus for contract made was rest of the scoring, but the reward · described as " pour avoir bien for slams wa~ modest-40 for joue," which amused me when grand slam, 20 fo r small slam. an inferior player should have made at least one or two over In 1903 . I went to Hong~ong tricks. I where Bndge was popula r especially at the Hongkong Club. In view of my long experience, In 1906 Colonel (then Captain) perhaps I can say a word about Beasley, who was stationed in the luck in bridge. I did not. keep Colony and considered the star records before marriage, but I player, was invited to our " Mess" was a good win_ner. From 1909 to try out " Auction " Bridge. up to the present I have had Only one bid was allowed to each onJy one losing year (about £7 player, commencing with the in 1941 ). The stakes· I played dealer, and we were very vague for were moderate- in Europe, about scoring. We tried only a rarely over 6d. to Is. a 100. My few hands and Beasley said he winnings accumulated over 20 t~~ugh t there were good possi years and at the outbreak of the bJIHics. Aft er the Portland Club last war in 1939 when my three .had. A d.ra ft ed a set of Laws , sons joined up and my daughter uctJo n " was accepted and went to Canada I distributed play ed Jn· the Colony. Spades between them a substantial sum \\ere promoted to Royal Spades, - about £2,000-which I had ~ccs and honou rs were counted kept on one side. dJffercntly, the scoring also was altered. I mentioned that I had my one and only losing year in 1941 , and About 191 6 (I am not sure of that was no coincidence, for it the period) the Director of the was after I had joined Ralph and Observatory said he had heard " Penguin "(Mr. and Mrs. Evans) from f. . . nends m Mauri tius of an at their house in Andover. I unprovement in Bridge, the game was not used to modern bidding 45 1 I . I . I ,"\ . and they very kindly instructed out that the panel of experts .. me and brought me up to date . by no means unanimous. When the Evanses took over ,, I like a joyful game with the Riviera Hotel at Canford variety, such as is always to be Cliffs I went with them and have found at the Riviera:. My motto lived there ever since. · I am is : " Be as aggressive as possible known to everyone by my family to your opponents (in your style name of "Pops," and with my of play, I mean). Never · be friend and partner " Tempo " aggressive tp your partner." Weis have had sever£! successes in tournament bridge. Finally, my. best wishes to alf One is always learning and I with whom I have had the pleasure find the British Bridge World most of playing over the years, a1,1d instructive. I send it regularly many thanks to " Terence" for to my daughter in Canada, who allowing me to greet so many seemed despondent that she got friends in all parts of the world so few correct answers to prob through the medium of the British lems. I consoled her by pointing Bridge World. The Second Leg. By " NON-E XPE RT" This article deals with the establishment of menace cards for a squeeze and is primarily for players not especially skilled in that branch ofplay . If you hold in dummy K I 0954 you can fi nesse against the of a suit, and in your own hand other on the second round. A32, and cannot afford to let The odds are however against opponents take a trick in the success. d suit, your prospecLs are not good. If opponents can be Jn· duce If you have to lead the suit, to lead the suit, your chances of you can go for the drop of the success are greatly enhanced. QJ, or if one of these cards appears With these holdings, it is also on the first round on your right, frequently possible to set up a 46 ~ squeeze position, and to take - The first three 'leads were the three tricks in the suit, two with Ace, King and a small spade. the Ace and King, and the third On the third trick, taken by 11ith either the ten or the rhrfe. North's Queen, South had to This seems too obvious to be ' discard. ' · ~ stated , yet one gets so accus He could see ten tricks, but tomed to making tricks in the required one more for his con long hand, and discarding from tract. the short, that the opposite alter - He visualized that he might native frequently gets over have difficulty with discards from looked, more pa rticularly when dummy, and might require to take the problem is set early in the the third trick in diamonds in his play of the hand. own hand. .··.: Here is an exa mple: To his credit, he discarded '\78. Soulh dealer The resulting end position was : Game all NoRm NOR Til • Q J 4 " Q 10 'V Q 10 9 2 ·0 -K 108 0 K 10 8 7 4 + - + s WEST EAST WEST E AST + AK973 • 10 8 6 • t I 0 KJ03 West dealer . .. East-West vulnerable . AIO NORTH WEST Em + AIO ~ 642 ~ - ~J 0 Kl03 ·0 QJ7 ·0 2 • A 10542 • Q7 • J63 WEST EAST SOUTH + KJ 84 • Q9653 ~ 109 8 ~ J 7 53 ~- 0 QJ7 5 0 2 ·0 A9 • Q7 • 163 • K98 SOUTH It is easy to see .that ,as the cards • 72 lie there is no squeeze, but there ~ AKQ would have been had either West, 0 A9864 or East, held three diamonds and • K98 three clubs.' · The contract was Three No North's leading back a spade Trumps by North. The first lead at trick two appears a laudable was a spade, taken by North, who, effort to make the best of the you may remember, immediately hand. led back +I 0. He risked a spade suit of more When West took this trick, it than 'five cards against him, but was a case of "Timeo Danaos gave himself the chance of a et dona ferentes," and West, squeeze and also of learning mo~ unduly suspicious, led back a about the enemy distribution-IR small diamond.- case there should be a singleton This ensured North his con · honour in one of the minor suits. tract, but when en a second round At the third table North opened · ns of diamonds East discarded a very light and the Amenca club, the defence crumbled, and wound up in Four No Trumps. North ran off the clubs to end up When a spade was led, North had \ ' , with twelve tricks. no room for finesse ; he had to The end position, had -West bang out both minor suit Ace returned a spade, would have Kings, hoping for the best. The been:- best was two down. 48 Edited by GEORGE S. COFFJN Reviewed by Terence Reese. "At prese nt three monthly director, and superior bridge magazines are published in player." 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