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VoLUME _2 SEPTEM Dim, 1943 NUMBER 11 EDITORIAL • CONTENTS • T MAY at first sight seem: Page strange that the Official Organ THE FUTURE oF ToURNAMENT I of the English Bridge Union BRIDGE- . . 3 should devote some of its pages RED AND GREEN -Norman Squire . . 5 to a searching examination and an WANTED : REALITY 8 implicit'criticism of E.B. U. policy ; Cnii\IE AND PuNISHMENT and this by the directing genius of .J11: Harrison-Gray 10 the Tournament Bridge Association. SUIT PREFERENCE Dimmie Fleming . . 12 . In fact, when we first asked · VANISHING TRICKS Mr. Terence Reese to write his "G. M. Harris" 14 views on the present-day tourna­ "Rn..'l " 16 UN-UNLUCh."Y EXPER ment set-up, he was most reluctant S. J. Simon 17 to do so. He urged that he was SLAI\IWARD Ho in this case, in some sense at least, A. G. Figgins . . 19 parti pris. When, conceding the OVEn-EDUCATED EVANST Graham Mathieson 21 validity of this point, we asked PALOOKAS AT PLAY him to suggest some other. pen or C. R. B. Murray . . 22 brain which could adequa~ely deal PosT· MonTEM-"Tenex".. 23 with the situation, he, like ourselves, DEAUVILLE 1948 24 was at a complete loss. GossiP oF THE MoNTH Guy Ramsey 25 For it is only Mr.. Reese, by CALENDAR • • 27 reason of ·his very position, who CoN:riNUATIONS 28 has studied the question-perforce. Slli'TEJ\IDER COMPETITION Boris Shapiro 29 He has the· facts and the vitally AAS\VERS TO AUGUST relevant figures at his fingers' -ends. CoMPETITION And, although doubtless his Kenneth Komtam 30 criticism will be taken in poor part by many of the stalwarts of the * * * Union, . the rapidly falling entries in our national competitions All Corresp9ndence to the Editor : (whether B.B.L. - or E.B.U.­ GUY RAMSEY, sponsored) coupled with the far from satisfactory organisation of 13, Cannon Place, the Pachabo, the National Pairs , N.W.J. and the disastrous chaos of the Portland Pairs, plus the increm•ing

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CONTRACT BRIDGE . JOURNAL tardiness of all finals in the past excerpt in question, and we there­ season (the ~owl fore put it on record that is as we write, still not completed I) " Odyssey " by " Fifth Man " was le~d the most sanguine to .suppose the product of the W olfcrs pen. the forthcoming season Will show · Doubltess Mr. Wolfcrs is happy yet further lack of interest even . to know that'words appearing under in the ranking national contests. his 710111 de plume were resurrected Much against his will, Mr. Reese in a tribute to his old friend " Skid." agreed to write : as frankly and * * * as fearlessly as he played at N this issue, we resume, for Copenhagen : pulling no punches so long as the material sh~ll and currying no favo?r. He w.rote, I last the adventures and mls­ and the Jou;mal pnnts, for o~e adventu'res of. S. J. Simon's reason and one reason only : to quartette. .Our capacity . to do improve, at 1 whatever cost of this is due d1rectly to the kmdness heartache and headache, dis- , and sympathy of Mrs. Simon, comfiture and even anger, the and we feel that, however wry be ~ervice to the players, the standard now our smiles at that great of the game. · humorist's unquenchable humour ; · It is not our aim to engage in however regretful we . may feel sterile controversy ; but we that the source of them is dammed welcome constructive rebut~ls, forever, both our readers and the ' emendations, .and suggestions author would prefer that they inspired by the trenchant and shOuld first appear in the Joumal careful examination of the present of which he was so staunch a position appearing on the following supporter, to which he was so pages. consistent a contributor, than that * * * '~e should wait upon the un­ E have been informed, and cer.tainties of post-war publishing. asked to make public­ * * * W which, of course, we HE cry of every bridge maga­ willingly do-the foll9'ving facts:- zine of the past is re-echoed The Diary from which Terence T by the Joumal of the Reese quoted last month in his present : lack of adequate variety moving "Portrait" of S. J. Simon in its contributors. was an article appearing in the We appeal to all players who June, 1937, number of ~he Br~tish have a good story to tell, a good Bridge "World, at that tlme ed1ted 1 idea to ~ubmit, a genuine· grievance by Mr. Reese. to air, a new system to popularise The article was signed " Fifth to set. it down and send it to a Man"-one of the pseudonyms sympathetic and copy-hungry adopted by an InteJnational of Editor; If lack of experience in those days, Mr. A. Wolfers. actual writing· be a barrier to any It was-and is-Mr. Reese's would-be author, it is not, perhaps, belief 'that the quoted words were out· of place if we mention that a an interpolation of his own. Mr. skilled sub-editor is ready and Vlolfers assures us that he was the willing to smooth out any "onlie begetter" of the amusing awkwardness of phrase. G. R. 2 i' -·------· -~. ~- -·-

THE fUTURE '·OF TOURNAMENT BRIDGE by Terence Reese

H E PRESENT state of tion anci temporary office. One has Tournament Bridge presents the impression that no one person T a contrast. has any pride in, or responsibility Public interest in the game has for, efficient management. never been higher. ' The British A large but unselective Council .Success at Copenhagen and the meets earnestly and regularly but, Jong run of " Bridge on the Air " in effect, it is the hard-pressed haye kept the game well in the Secretary and one or two energetic public eye. Committeemen who do all the In the tournament world itself, practical work. the omens are less favourable. These people who do the work Entries for competitions have are hampered by the fact that they ·declined since the first season have not autocratic powers. The after the war, and are likely to go ·result has been interminable delay down still further. There is not in almost every field. Events have the interest which there used to lingered on to a point at which he. in the results t>f the big events. even the Finalists have lost interest · How many·players, even readers in them. -of this Journal whose hobby is When the Finals have come bridge, could say 'offhand, or even round at long -last, they have after some thought, who won the fallen flat. Consider, for example, Pachabo Cup, the Whitelaw Cup, the Pachabo Cup. ' Last year, only the Lady Milne, the Affiliated 8 teams out of 16 bothered to ·Clubs, the National Pairs, the turn up to the Final. This year, Portland Club Cup, the Hubert only 5 out of 16 l Phillips Bowl*-cven Crockford's ' · One would have supposed that ·Cup, or the Cold Cup ? it would have occurred to the .. The fact that the finals of these Tournament Committee' that the -competitions have been sta~ed wi~h Pachabo Cup' was an e\·ent with so little sense of. promotiOn will which it was not worth while to lead to even smaller ei:ltries next persevere. Yet it is down, as usual, year. in the elaborate brochure published There are two reasons for the for the 1948-49 season. present unsatisfa~tpry . state ,. ~f It is impossible to resist the affairs. Shortcommgs m · admtm­ inference that the short-term vie\v stration are p,art of the trouble, ... " 'e must get some money in" but the real fault lies in the system. has more bearing than it should The present ' conduct of have on the construction of the tournaments by the E.B.U. exhibits annual programme. the faults of democratic organisa- The B.B.L. and E.B.U. * No-one as yet !-Eo. authorities may well say that it 3 , .

CONTRACT BRIDGE JOURNAL was not possible to create interest been clearly formed for over a year in the Finals of most of· the ' and the time has surely come when competitions and that they would the authorities in bridge must take not have been justified in spending a long look forward. This is my a lot of money on their promotion. blueprint-:- This is quite true. 1. It must be ?bvious to anyone, . But if that is. admitted, then who studies the present there must be something seriously strength of tournament bridge wrong with the system. that the game will not support There is. the present paid full-time E.B.U. staff and overheads. When the present system of A part-tinie Secretary, with. national competitions began, about a modest honorarium, can five years before · the outbreak of just be afforded. The war, difference, when salary, Travel was easy expenses and office accommo­ Time was easy dation are all counted, is­ Mo11ey wdS easy about £400 a year. Now, ~ll these are difficult­ 2. The E.B.U.'s field of activiti~ . especially the' first. would, of course have to be greatly reduced. 'The B.B.L. There are two more factors which make the situation today s~10uld promote no competi­ tiOns at ,all. The E.B.U. very different from 1934. One is the continuing and seemingly should . promote only one permanent ascendency of London competltlon on a national players, the effect of which is that sc~e, the .' In the big competitions are all won thts there should be seeding- by a group of players who live· . and an open draw for the· within five miles of one another. last 16 teams. .The others are bound to wonder 3· The E.B.U. should promote· whether the expenditure of the one annual Congrells at which ·' , ~ime and money in_v?lved ~~ playing the semi-final and final of m open competltlons IS worth the Gold Cup should be while. · · pl.ayed, . and simultaneously The second factor is that in With thts, the Pachabo Cup for Open Teams of Four 1934 there were not the County Associations as we know them ' and . the Lady Milne (o~ Whitelaw) for Women's. today ..~layers can now get all the compctltJOn they want without Teams of Four. The going outside their County limits. ;ongress programme ~thould i; com~leted by the qualify- What should happen ? g . and final stages of the The programme for next year's Natlonal Pairs. tournaments has already been 4· All other trophies held by announced, so any proposal for a the B.B.L. :tnd the E B U new set-up cannot have effect for should be loaned to· ~h~ at least twelve months. However County Associations. JllY own ideas on the subject hav~ (Con"timtt!d 011 page 28 ) 4 RE.D AND GREEN by 'Norman Squire

VERY player is familiar with an · been there, ducking twice by E the Stop and Go sign.als of sheer force of habit. · bidding and play-or should And thcn-Oi I Red Light I be. But sometimes they arc so Put back A hurriedly. What disguised (rather like the masks in if the lead was from + K Q J the early black-out) that one is bare ? I shall now go down if I :apt not to' recognise them if. one take th~t + J, and the 1\7 K is bas not " been there before " wrong. again. More (thanks, Mr. Priestley). · Spades-East showing out. Heart · For. the~e is a great difference King is wrong. Make just 3 NT. between a situation in. the .book Add score. Win 550. and a disguised modification of it Very annoying . Third duck . at the card-table . . cost me five bob. Is there never My examples are taken from any justice ? Qrdinary rubber· play at Lederer's Later: Club. The first is so like an -everyday ' ro~tine play th~t it is easy Dummy: to miss. ' ·· · · · · ' ·' +K41\)A1083 OAQJ54 + K4 Dump1y:.... · Me: ·. ' . .. 81\?A. Q~ O ·KJ1.087 + KJ97 + 52 .I\?KJ962 01092 + A86 Me: Contract 4. 1\). Lead is + Q. .. A964 1\)]752 OA + AQ85 Lot of stuff there. ·Might make ' seven if lucky. Glance at score­ :BIDDING: need to make seven· for the extra ·., Me,. l + · P~er, 1 0. Me point.* Look at Bl}mmy~ . · . 11\). Partner, 3 + · Me, 3 NT. Oi again J .. Another· Red Light. . ·Six Clubs is a fair contract at , Can go · d~wn here if not careful. the rubber table,· but my partner's · Oh well, must play safe . . West bidding was bad. · The sequence must not · be · allowed to get the .should have been (easy enough too) lead. .Recall the famous small­ 1 .• - 2· 0 - 2 1\1 - 3 + -3 • - slam. safety .play, conceding . a 4 1\7 - 6 + . or something similar, (perhaps unnecessary) . trick in a with a 4/5 NT convention if you suit to ensure losing not more than feel like it. But there I was, in one. 3 NT when I ought to have been Play a small Heart, intending to in a Club slam. At least let me finesse • ~Vl 8 . on the first . round. not go down-that would be the This ensures that not more than .end. one trick in the suit can be lost. Lead is + K. Duck automatic­ If East wins, there remain only ally. + Q follows. Duck. + J two outstanding trumps, . which .comes. Take + A from hand. fall on the A and K. If West If the lead ·is from five, and the shows out, the K is played and 1\) K is wrong, I shall make -4 NT. · finesses are taken . through East. If Spades are split 4-4 I shall just * How many players are careful make 3 NT. So often have we enough to do this ? 5 CONTRACT »RIDGE JOURNAL Now, the only · trouble I can by m;ny players simply because encounter with the trumps is East they are so used to ducking twice: being void, for, though I can pick that to duck three times would up all West's four, that will .leave have seemed (supe rficially} me in the wrong hand, my + A redundant. The seconu would be having gone at trick 1. So if East • missed by ~ore, not because they is void of trumps only two rounds don't know the safety-play to lose may be taken. Then the Diamond only one trick with that combina­ finesse must follow. If it loses, I tion, but .because the thing is am home unless \Vest has · a wrapped up, and the Red Light singleton. If West has a doubleton, is screened by red herrings. East must be good enough to for one · round and then give As the cards lay, the veriest his partner a ruff. And East needs palooka would have made both still to have the' + A to beat me. contracts (and 30 points more than So if anything at all is right I am I did). But next time l And there safe. And if everything is wrong, always is a next time. the defence will ~till have to be smart. \ I started out intending to be completely non-scientific, but find I . don't. claim that . my way of I can't avoid it. A novel situation playmg thts hand is the only right ~or me came along, and I enjoyed way ; at least one good player tells tt so much that I think it worth. me ·that he would have taken the · Diamond finesse at trick 2. 'There setting out, even if only for amusement. is something to be said for this, I although I. don't like it. . I Held: .I ~d plea~e, Average Player, don't • I. think I worked ·out all these + A 5 4 \?A J 8 5 0 K 3 2 + K J 7 . combinations before playing a card V In I I . didn't. I looked at that trum~ u erable and 30 up. Partner suit . and played a small trump op~~ed 1 Or Bid 1 \? (for no­ ! intending to finesse · the 8. There parttcular reason e~cept that I like would be plenty of time to tackle ~0 +go slowly so~ettmes). He said the rest of the trouble if• the · •. N<;a;ly btd 2 NT, but hadl trumps broke badly. . Were they sudden. vtston of his being good~ fair, the hand would be a pianola , Not. bemg able to think of a bid and my · brain saved that much prec~sely to describe my 0\\n extra str~in. .so I played a small ~o.ldmg, made "scieptific," bid of heart qmte qwckly. West dropped · th~ 0 K. Thought .I had led a Dtamond. Called his highellt Oi I Whither away ? For n'O\v Heart. He gave Q. · . 've really . know something. Now made seven in comfort 'and He is either 544 'vith a void in got back my five bob. Perhaps ~carts, or1 4441 with a singleton th~te is justice, occasionally. . h cart. But we know more than !hese plays require no great ·, k~t-;-m~ch. more-he is good. dtdn t btd 3 + or e,·en 2 NT ~ abthty. The first would be missed but 4 +· ~ 6 C O NTRACT BRIDGE JOURNA, L The Lights are Green. There · If West turns up with long should be a slam somewhere. tmmps and short Hearts. we can Puzzle : find the right spot. If bring off a pretty coup. he has five Diamonds, that's it. I bid 4 0. Came + NT - 5 NT - Q 6 • · Q7 Oi ! That's the end of the five card Diamond-suit hope, and am now in a slam in my three-card J4 suit-with my eyes wide open, too. Situation novel and exciting. Determine to stick. He put down: +KQ86 \? 9 OAQ75 AQ96. 5 J Lead was a trump. _Pulled trumps 3 and ran the 9 \?, drawing the K. Now made contract on easy squeeze. West had four Diamonds, East A Diamond lead now cooks West four Spades. East is squeezed on nicely. Had he held (remember his fourth Spade and the s::} Q, that this position is purely just as West would have ·been on speculative) long Diamonds instead his fourth Diamond and the \? Q, of long Spades we should have to had he held that card. discard a·Diamond from Dummy at · Was· it silly to play in Clubs? Trick 10 instead of a Spade ; with, Or is NT just as good ? Even now leading a Spade at Trick 11, with the unpleasant lead of a identical results. · Heart in NT you can duck the At Trick 10 we should have had first, take the second with A \? to guess \vhich card to throw, but. and produce the same end-play. it is far better to have to guess at . But just a minute. What would Trick 10 than at Trick 2, for the you throw . from Dummy at trick fall of the cards should by then 2 ? You have blindly to guess a have turned our guess almost into Spade or a Diamond. If you a certainty. throw the wrong one-good-night. You must guess, and guess right, Again, if we feel like it, and we or go down. think the Hearts look like breaking 4- 4 4 1, we can ruff all three losing Against the Heart lead, playing Hearts in Dummy. Now we shall in Clubs, we have entirely different succeed -if the trumps are 4- 2 lines of play up our sleeves. We . and there is no singleton against can play the hand · as in NT's·, us. taking our guess at trick 2 and drawing trumps immediately. But It must be clear already that we can do much better than that. Clubs is a , better contract than We can ruff 2 Hearts in Dummy. NT. But it is more than that. Now the hand is cold if the trumps It is more fun to play, and much are 3 - 3 ; the squeeze is no longer more fun to bid. And I like my needed. Bridge to be fun. 7 ITH a pace that a tortoise it will appear simultaneously in might envy, the national umpteen langua~ cs (including W and international bridge Ruritanian) ; and tf Ely announces organisations are reverting to a a new Seven-Way Grand Slam question that convulsed the game Force, the world will be able to in the 'thirties : the · age-ol~ recognise it at sight. controversy of systePlS and conventions. The B.B.L. has But it is doubtful if any asked the E.B.U. to sound out Continental player really under­ its 'members as to their views on stands or Cab or has the what conventions, systems, con­ remotest possibility of effectively ventions within a syatem are. to countering the strategy of Acolytes be sanctioned. or Taxi-drivers at the card-table. :BY the same token, the Culbertsons' The present position is, rougly, defeat in 1937 by the "Stem Gang" that a team may play any was due, it is generally conceded, '.'·recognised',' .. or. ·" published " as mu.ch to unfamiliarity with the ?Y~te~. Iceland, at Cope~hagen Weak Club .and the Forcing One ~n . June, . solemnly ,produced 33 :No Trump as to the spectacular pag~ of foolscap I The Journal ca~d,.play of Schneider and J ellinek; gav.e a skel~t~n of the _Prague Limit, ~x:1schauer an.d·Herbert, von Meiss! a recondite . application .of Stern's and von Blii~om. Yi~~~·a. Nearer home, Nottingham expl~tts a One ;. Club which . is Some · form of limitation is known to many to~rnament players urgently required beyond the present but not to others. "~o .Private System" rule. · · Nowi . publication- ·can be no But-if the bar is set to any criterion of·. admissability. · If ·a experiment, the same bar lies Ruritanian team enters for · Paris· athwart the r~ad to .progress. in 1949 and. demands the right to It was expressly ~ttated at the play: a Ruritanian Delimited E.B.U. ~eetill:g (which wisely Diamond on the ground that a shelved discusston · on account of book on it by Rupert of Hentzau the announcement) that it would has be~n published by Cszol .of tak: a minimum of two years to Plocksz, the premier Ruritanian achieve . any agreement between publishers, it will not help Baron the natJons. It will, · no doubt, de Nexon's Canape practitioners ariy more than Frantisek Joles' ~e as long (and, in the process, Prague Limiters. · · gtve countless .tournament directors recourse to inn~merable aspirin . ~ . It is true that Culbertson here ~bl<:ts) before satJsfactory uniform­ tty ts established even at home. has the edge. If a ne\T edition of th.e Blue Book, the Red Book or F~ankly, . it is too easy to claim ~ the ~old Book appears (we eagerly one. IS playmg a system, and if one ~watt the heralded changes in the devtate" Sh d from. it • plead " p syc h'tc, , " system which 98 per cent. play ") a ed Btd" or " Hunch," if 8 CONTRACT BRIDGE ' JOURNAL one really wishes to snatch a any hard cases (of which there ·victory. It is, perhaps, fortunate were providentially few at that would-be snatchers are usually Copenhagen). so indifl"crent in skill as to negative any advantage they seck unfairly It would be well, too, if our to gain. visitor3 should have the opportunity {:ts we British had not at But thi:c; is no adequate solution Copcnha~en) of familiarising them- · of the problem. ~el '!c:; "ith our playing cards The ideal would be, of course, before the Internationals properly an universally played system. But st:1rt : a week-end of invitation Culbertson will not sacrifice p!ay at the London Clubs would Approach Forcing, · the French do it. ·will cling to Canape, Britain to Acol and Cab and Baron, the Apart from that, the B.B.L. had Central Eur.opcans to sonl.e better concentrate on raising the " tramline " accretion of , funds adequately to sustain our Scandinavia to Black\vood, Scotland dignity and prestige against the to Culberts·on, and Northern performance of the Danes and England and Ireland to Kempson the promise of the French. The for some time to come : until, in English Bridge Union have rigor­ fact, some team appears with a ously, at their last two meetings, revolutionary, and seemingly and flung this bothersome baby squarely temporarily, world-beating system back in the B.B.L.'s lap ; and it • such. as Culbertson introduced to were well if that august, if shadowy, in the early 'thirties. body took effective action in sufficient time to avoid a legitimate Until then-if such a outcry from the rank and file of phenomenon could still manifest . the game rather than pursue a itself in the state of development vague, and too probably a vain, the game has . now achieved-such dream of Peace on the (Sys~em­ vague plans for international agree­ atised) Earth, Goodwill to all ment are as .remote from reality Bridge players. as the endless (and almost hopeless) conferences held in more important international spheres. I * * * * * The Brit.ish Bri_dge League, I believe, would do , better to concentrate on training officials to Readers may be interested handle the international gathering .in the photograph of the due in London in some 20 months ; late S. J. Simon on page 16 tournament directors who are of the August issue. familiar with every system likely Enlargements size 8 x 6 ins. to be played ; scorers who know can be supplied, price 3/6 a little of th!! language likely to each. Please send orders to be spoken at the tables ; controllers PRIESTLEY STUDIOS LTD., with the tact and ,the decision to Commercial Rd., Gloucester. give ad hoc rulings that shall cover

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CRIME AND PU.NISHME NT · by M. Harrison-G ray

hand only in the first 16 boards. so They continued to pile on the • Q 10 6 2 match points in the second half, .\? J and Board 30 (above) was their · 0 Q5 first real reverse. + QJ8742 +·3 + AJ,S . The exchanges 1n Room 1 are \? K 5 3 2 \? 10 9 brisk and colourful. T he British 0 A7632 0 KJ984 West is faced with an awkward bid + A65 , + K93 after South's overcall of 1 +. and decides to force a game. A raise + K9754 to 3 O would be a decided underbid \? AQ8764 in the Acol system. · 0 10 + 10 North (Falck-P e dersen) Dealer, East. Love All. brilliantly pre-empts to the limit, and East makes the one bid that Biddi11g-Room 1 he should avoid- a double of 4 West must trust his partner EAST SOUTH VlEST NoRTH +. and pass, although 5 O is only 1 0 1+ 2+ ++ Dble defeated if South opens with \? A. 0 A led. South made 10 tricks. The British defence was equally, 590 points to North-South. unfortunate. South trumped the second Diamond and exited with Biddi11g-Room 2 + 10. East won and switched to CV1 10 with the laudable intention EAST SouTH WEsT NoRTH 1 0 · 1 \? Dble No bid of forcing the dummy before the 1 NT No bid 2 0 Clubs were set up. South won with \? A and now led + 4 to + 10 led. East made 11 tricks. dummy's + Q and East's + A ; 150 points to East-West. \? 9 was returned, covered by South's \? Q and West's \? K! ,_ CoMMENT Dummy ruffed, the Spade finesse ·! After their dramatic win against was taken, . and it was all over. Sweden in the European Champion­ The contract is of course defeated ships at Copenhagen, Britain · had if West reads the situation correctly further stiff fences to negotiate. and hangs on to his \? K. First there was France ; and then Christiansen, the declarer gave the clever young Norwegian team. himself the only chanc~ and who had shown in their previous deserved his success. matches that they were capable of beating anybody. There was a surprising lack of bidding in Room 2. With South's Once again Britain got away to holding it is always a moot point . a flying start, losing points on one: whether the higher-ranking but 10 CONTRACT BRIDGE JOURNAL shorter suit shmild be bid first. The Bidding-Room 2 British South unfortunately elected Nonnr EAsT SouTH WEST to overcall with 1 (,J, which was 1 + No bid 2 (,J No bid promptly doubled by West. Few 3 (,J No bid 3 No bid players would care to double with + 4· ·so many cards in partner's suit, + but it at least put a damper on ' 0 10 led. North made 11 tricks· any further enterprise by South. 650 points to North-South. East wisely declined to let the double stand, and the proceedings CoM:VlENT ·ended with a surprisingly modest Britain had to play their best to bid of 2 0 by. West; clearly he beat a very competent Danish team suspected a psychic- opening by at Copenhagen in a match marked his partner. It will be noted that by fine play and few swings. The 3 NT, played by East, is a make; above hand is on·e of the exceptions, and the British pair in this room for the British gained a large swing had no reason to feel dissatisfied without undue exertion. with the result. ' To take the Room 2 bidding The s.core of 590 to Nonvay in first : this follows normal British - Room 1 includes the new bonus practice. North naturally does of 50 points for making a doubled not contemplate passing on a hand .contract. strong in playing tricks ; South prefers a mark-time bid of 2 (,J to a response of 2 NT with only 51 three honour cards in the hand ; • . KQJ 109 North has a choice of bids, and \J J 5 + perhaps a rebid of 2 + is the 0 KJ763 best move at this stage. Over his + - actual raise to 3 \J, South again -+ 72 + AS4 fights shy of No-Trumps. He (,J K 10 2 (,J Q 6 3 bids 3 + ito find out (a) if North 0 Q 84 0 10 5 has five Spades; (b) if not, whether + QJ654 + K10872 he has four Hearts. The right • 863 contract is reached and made (,J A987 without difficulty. Note the contempt for " normal " trump ' . 0 A92 + A93 ' support shown by both players. ,·, Dealer, North. . North-South Reverting to Room 1, North Game. dug a pit when he passed as dealer from which he could not extricate himself. Reluctant to Bidding-Room 1 force with a jump to 2 + after NoRTH EAsT SouTH WEST a third-in-hand bid by his partner No bid No bid 1 + No bid in a suit in which he is void, he 1 • makes a One-o\rer-One response­ and South's pass is in accordance 0 10 led. Nort~ made 11 tricks. with all the dictates of common­ 200 points to North-South. sense.

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I B'l' . I Dimmie Fleming I I I SUIT PREFER~NC E I ICKING up a Norwegian the gifts of coupons ; the kindness daily newspaper, which my of friends ; the loan of beautiful l· P mother has sent · to · her furs and frocks. I fondly imagined I regularly, I turn~d instinctively to the resultant rustle of taffeta the bridge column. This feature petticoats under New Look dresses · is· usually doubly instructive, had triumphantly demonstrated our improving my bridge 'vhile, at supremacy in at least one field. the same time, brushing up my I was wrong. Bitterness filled Norwegial). my soul. As it was · shortly after the I resumed my reading. The . British success at Copenhagen, I remainder of the article was devoted might have been forgiven for to an interview with Boris Shapiro7 expecting some of the scintillating Hoping to improve my dress sense, bids or brilliant defence of our I read slowly on. men's team to be commemorated for the expectant Nonvegian public. . " Give up using Asking Bids ., ' Yes, it was a eulogy ... of the and Blackwood," h!! implored the Reese-Shapiro partnership. It Scandinavians. ~ " They only tell spoke in glowing terms of . . . your opponents that you are · their elegance, and of the generally missing one or two Aces. I accepted fact that· they were the sometimes bid Seven missing an best turned-out pair . in the Ace and often bid Six missing ' Congress. two Aces ; but as each of my Could anything be more dis­ opponents can only see his own heartening ? I thought of the thirteen cards, at least 70 per cent. weeks . of training and practice of these slams come home." matches the women's team had The article concluded " So put in ; I was sorry we did not speaks Shapiro, European Master play well enough to win ; I felt Champion of A.b. 1948." no bitterness however.; we had By now gravely disturbed I done our best ; we had even been p~ndered various alternati~es : complimented on being good losers. rots-reporting, misunderstanding of ·And now this ... Terence Reese, · a peculiar brand of humour or an our trainer, and his partner singled even greater rustiness i~ my out (or should it be doubled out?) Not:vegian than I had thought as the . best dressed pair in the posstble. I gave it up as a further championship. thought struck me. I remembered the weeks of Many weeks previously, Colonel preparation ; the hours of fittings ; "alshe7 had asked me to play with 12 CONTRACT BR I DGE J OURNAL , Boris in a team for Deauville with 4 NT (Culbertson) and, as he himself and Eddie Rayne. Now, must sign off in 5 +. I was going M r. Raynl!, Jr., and Mr. Shapiro to say 5 NT, giving him the ·were . both European l\1Iaster information that I held all the Champions of A.D. 194-8. I was Aces, and leaving the decision as attacked by nen'cs. Should I to 6 ·s; or 7 to him. suggest the Champions playing His reply to 4 NT was 6 +. together ? Obviously thi:1 might again showing me the () A, or be disastrous : Mr. Shapiro would alternatively the A. not play Yuitlz Blackwood ; l\'Ir. Rayne, Jr. would be miserable Nobly restraining the impulses without it. There could be no which beset me, and at the same doubt of Mr. Raynl!'s ability to time realising t~at my Norwegian " give 'em the lash," but could was not rusty, I said 7 +. reflecting he live up to Mr. Reese's sartorial that this was one of the grand eminence? slam contracts in which we were not missing an Ace. In spite of Another Deauville started with this disappointment,* he made it the usual renewal of friendships, for a joint top on the board. and all went \vell for a day or two­ the E.M.C. 1948 pointing out my The full deal was mistakes but endeavouring to keep + AK10xxx the pity out of his. voice. \::) A X Then ·· came · the first evening 0 Ax Axx session :· a p~irs. . I was a little + ·uneasy when both the E.M.C.'s + Jxx + Qxxx \::) 10 9 8 X \::) Qxx 1948 appeared at dinner in superb white dinner-jackets '; this O K.Jxx 0 Q 10 x' increased when my partner placed + XX + Jxx delicate pink rose in his button + - a \::) K Jx x hole, · J-I:owever, concentration () xxxx descended like a safety . curtain as' , ·the session be.11:an. · + KQlOxx But how did he know that. tlze Several ·hands later, I 'vas only lead to defeat the contract was gratified to pick up the following :- a Diamond ? + AK lOxxx When I ·return for training to \::) A X Mr. Reese in the autumn I must 0 Ax find out ; 'or- horrible thought !­ + Axx will the time be spent in analysing There was no opposition bidding the Copeqhagen hem-line ?t throughout. I opened 2 + ; my * How I should like to be similarly partner bid 3 + ; me, 4 + imd · disappointed I- EDITOR. him, 4 O· At this point I took a doscr look at my Ace of Diamonds, t The authqr, fvimzing a subsidiary but they were not Swedish cards prize at Deauville, was delighted and it really was an Ace. Light to receive . ... you've guessed ·dawned on me- this must be a it : a length of dress material.- ]cad-inhibiting bid. I now bid EDITOR. !3 '/

,l . VANISHING. ' · TRICI Q at off and West obliged by following this stage would have put paid to suit in each case ; so at T rick 13 the trump-reducing process. V{est West's winning trump went on agreed, stating that he was just his partner's high Diamond. about to point out this venial error Now let us make declarer's task himself; but in fact, this m~ster still more difficult by giving y> Q , defence does not affect the issue, to West in exchange for his y> 2, for South can still enter dummy so that he now holds Q 10 9 3 ; three times in order to ruff two and let us assume that on the Spades and the last Diamond. strength of tlus holding, .as players The following hand was will, he has .doubled South's responsible for a .big swing in a contract of 6 y>. Once again + J te:ims of four match : is led. A Q 3 This time the double warns y> A 8 5 South of rocks ahead, so after 0 A K 7 taking one round of trumps with + A 9 7 6 y> A he pauses to consider ; and + J 10 8 + 9 6 54 what he sees is not pleasant, for y> 10 9 3 2 y> Q there are three apparent losers. 0 Q 10 0 J 9 3 2 But study the effect of the following + J 10 52 + Q 8 4 3 s eque~ce of play: + K 7 2 Trick 1, + J won with + K ; y> K. J 7 6 4 Trick 2, y> A ; 'Trick 3, + K ; 0 8 6 5 4 Trick 4, + Q ; Trick 5, + A ; + K Trick 6, + 6, ruffed with y> ·6 ; Tri~ ~ + A; Trid ~ + ~ In Room · 1 the contract was ruffed with y> 7 ; Trick 9, 0 K ; 6 NT by North, and 11 tricks was . Trick 10, O A. The position is the limit of the hand.- In the other now as follows : room 6 y> was reached with the + ­ aid of . a variation of the One y> 8 5 No-Trump-Two Clubs convention: 0 7 2 NT - 3 + -3 NT - 5 y> - 6 y>. + - . West led + J, a~d after two + - + 9 rounds of trumps .the horrid truth y> Q 10 9 y> - was revealed. South can discard 0 - 0 J9 'one Diamond on + K, but must. + - + - still concede a Diamond and a + ­ trump trick. Once again, however, y> KJ a · trump-reducing play brought 0 8 about the desired ending, ·aided by the fact that West's distribution + - 0 7 is now led from dummy, I was exactly right from declarer's and West has the double humilia­ point of view. tion of having to ruff his partner's I South cashed y> J and ruffed winner and lead into South's I· two low Clubs ; ·all his winners trump tenace. in the side suits were then played (Continued 011 page 28) f IS I I I BLACK-HAIRED, long­ consecutive years, 1935, '3 6, '3 7, legged, vivacious_girl of 14, gained the trophy for Austria. A possessed of an insatiable In the following year, Austria intellectual hunger, sat· watching ceased to exist, and the dazzling the grown-ups playing bridge it;~. bridge teams of Vienna went th'e pre-war Vienna. way of even more valuable things. In post-war London, a black­ Mrs. Markus came to England haired, long - legged, vivacious and created in London as definite woman, possessed of an unquench­ an impression as she bd left on . able eagerness sits being watched the Continent. whenever she sits at a card-table. She has a talc of !riumphs to The girl was mother' to the her name ; she won the war-time woman ; an~ Mrs. Rika Markus · Ladies Championship ; she was confesses frankly that the only in th ~ final of the Gold Cup with . schooling she had in bridge were Standish Booker ; she was in the the afternoons and rate evenings final of the 1946 Gold Cup ; she she kibitzed as a girl. won the Ladv Milne, and, the · · She never learned in the orthodox ne.xt year, the Whitelaw ; partner-· fashion ; · and though she has in~ Lady Rhodes, she waltzed known the instruction of, perhaps, away with the Two Stars.· the g ~'e ate st coach '~ho ever lived­ At one time, she formed part -,.she was always so of tl1e Stern Circus, re_verting to individual and even her previous love ; wilfu l a player that, but she is by no matter .wh!lt ten;tperament and system she . was ''R:IXI'' style of play too supposed to be individualist to be practising, it was · her own game happy in a " tramline " system. \ she actually played. It is conventional to say that l It \Vas illness- after the birth Rixi plays like. a man ; but .there . ~ of her daughter- that drove Rixi are few men to touch her. The (as she is always called to the speed of her analysis, the rapidity . exclusion of her real name) to play of her deduction, the ability to the .game she 'had only watched. · make Four Spades Redoubled She·played a casu! rubber or two ; against four Aces and fine · then a fine player asked her to opposition without a void in either partner him in a Pairs. They won, hand : these are the characteristics and Paul Stern, then the (ocus of her game. .. round which Central European It is true that she can have her bridge revolved, found his crashes- and they are spectacular attention arrested by a new, when they- occur. . · forceful, occasionally disastrous but For ten years, England has usually brilliantly successful, been her home- save for a short . performer who had only to sit (and .very s?ccessful) raid upon · down at a table for the fireworks Amencan bndge. It is devoutly to begin. to be wished that by 1949 she will . She was invited to join the be eligible to represent the land first women's team to compete of her adoption and her choice at internationally, and she was in the she game she loves, and plays group which, for the 'three so well. ' t6 . U N-UNLUCKY EXPERT by S. J. Simon T!tis is the first of the posthumously published articles by " Shiel." Tire balanrr [I_{ tlrem will appear i11 wzbrohe11 seqlleuce.

RAGEDY has befallen the may well produce results either by ' quartette. They split up on flustering opponents into the wrong T their Yoy:~g~~ to America and contract or achieving a cheap save. .I", lost so mu:::n moncv they were Its ma:..:imum cost is 1,100 ·and, detained at, and ultin~atcly shipped · ns it happens, this is what it would home from, Ellis Island ! cost here if doubled and left in. This, of course, is much too high \Vhilc under detention, of course, a price to save game against non­ they played bridge-and this was vulnerable opponents, and the one of the hands kibitzed by their pre-empt, therefo re, is unsound. gaolers. Nevertheless, to some extent it Dealer South. North-South !Tiay be said to have achie,·ed its vulnerable. object. It escaped a double and it barred opponents from playing (Mrs. Guggenheim) 3 N~-Trumps ; which is lay-down. + K (b) A gamble by the Unlucky ~ K Q 10 9 8 7 6 4 Expert. The correct bid is an 0 543 optional double : partner takes it + J out if he sees anything better ; (Mr. Sm~g) (Unlucky Expert) otherwise he passes. The Unlucky Expert, . of course, knows this + 9876 + AJ5 perfectly well, but he had been : ~ AJ 52 ~3 987 0 AKQJ 10 getting good results this rubber 0 and he was in an unusually +. K '10 '+ A762 optimistic mood. (Futile Willie) + Q 1043 2 THE PLAY ~ - Futile Willie, after a long trance, 0 62 led the ·· 3. + Q98543 " Interesting," said the Unlucky Expert. He played the Six from J'HE BIDDING : Dummy, Mrs. Guggenheim played SouTii \VEST NoRTH EAST the King, and he won with the Ace No bid No bid 4 ~ (a) 5 0 (b) and played three rounds of Trumps. ·No. bid No bid · No bid " Interesting," he said again as (a) An over-bid, but I Mrs. Guggenheim followed to the sympathise. This is not the sort third round. of hand on which a tepid pre-empt It is widely believed by about-' of 3 ~ is likely to do much to-become beginners that a Master shutting-out. Rather than make Player is. one who can tell what it, I would bid 1 ~-or even pass. everybody's got after a few cards _Four Hearts, on the other hand, have been played. This is one of CONTRACT BRIDG~ JOURNAL the few hands on which the· belief · the King of Clubs and then, is almost justified. On the very fearlessly, played the \? 2 and let first lead, the Unlucky Expert Mrs. Guggenheim hold the trick knows that Mrs. Guggenheim holds with her \? 6. (But all the same, eight Hearts-othenvise why should he looked quite relieved when her partner make such a non- Futile Willie discarded a Club), constructive lead ? After four This. was now the position :- rounds, he knows 12 of her cards, and . the only point in doubt is +- · whether her thirteenth is a Club · \? K Q 10 9 8 or a Spade, with the odds strongly o - .in favoti r of the Club. + + 9 + J 5 . Why ? CJAJS , . \? 'It's fairly simple. If Mrs. 0 0 Guggenheim's unknown card is a + 10 + A7 6 Spade, it means that Futile Willie .• Q 10 started the hand with Q J 9 x x x x. In that case, being Futile Willie, \? - he could never have resisted a 0 - a pre-empt. He ·did_.:_therefore + Q98 he hasn't. Mrs. Guggenheim led the King of Hearts. The Unlucky Expert $o, at this stage, the Unlucky played low in Dummy and Expert was tackling a double­ dummy problem. See if you can discarded a Spade from his own hand. Futile Willie discarded a solve it before he does- and to Club: help you, the official nomenclature for the correct line of play i)! : Mr. Guggenheim now, perforce, . " Throw-in and Suicide Squeeze." led a small Heart. The Uriluch.-y " Interesting," said the Unlucky Expert cashed two Hearts in Expert. He played out all his Dummy, discarding a Spade and' trumps, discarding two Spades a Club from his own hand. from Dummy ; crossed over with Futile Willie wept.

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N PREVIOUS articles I hm·c (1) The prospect of making .the set out my views as to the grand slam. is so remote that I manner in which slams should it may safely be ignored, and be bid on hands which offer a good (2) although ·the small slam is prospect of six and a possibility of not, strictly speaking, biddable seven. These hands we will for there is a reasonable charice the sake of convenience, call of making it by psychic means. ·category A hands. A point which immediately In bidding Category A hands, e.merges from these features is the principles of slam bidding that a jump bid of sl.x must be a which I have briefly outlined " stop " bid. In order to e}..1:ract should be strictly adhered to. full value from the hands in From the time when the slam question, an acquaintance with invitation is issued, every bid the principles of psychic bidding­ should be selected with the utmost and their application-is necessary ; delicacy and precision, and no and this is, of course, absent from adventitious ' aids, such as Asking the average player's armoury. The or psychic bids, should be invoked.* nature of the bidding may, however, This type of slam bidding is very be roughly indicated by the much an art in itself, and there is following examples :- no scope in it for the exercise of other forms of art. (1) WEST EAST + xx + Kx However, though the first, and ((} AKQxx ~ xx . most important, task of the budding () AKxxx 0 xx slam biddJ!r is to master the + x + AKQJxxx principles of this aspect of bridge, his second (and perhaps the more Let us assume that 'Vest as dealer opens the bidding with a difficult one) is to learn how an_d when to deviate from them. Th1s Heart.· East is not good enough .is the problem which confronts to force and may, of course, if he him in dealing with Category B is so disposed, make the stereotyped response of 2 Clubs, to . which hands. West will reply 2 or 3 Diamonds . . Thi~ category is much larger East with his seven Club tricks .:··.than Category A and includ_es not and Spade guard may then bid only hands . which would, m the 3 No Trumps . . ordinary course of events, be played only in game contracts but The hands can, however, be even some on which the normal made far more interesting than expectation would be ':ot more this. To West's opening bid East than part-scores. The Important should respond with a Spade I features of these hands are : On hearing North's 3 (), he should bid Six No Trumps. The * Yes-Jl1r. Figgins does 11ot always particular merit of his first bid is ]. either psihe or advocate psi/us I that it practically puts the Spade I - Editor. tricks, if held by the opponents, CONT RACT BRIDG E JO URNAL out of commission. It should be this kind being made with!,mt noted that if West supports the control of the Diamond suit and . Spade bid instead of bidding the bluff will probably succeed­ another suit, the slam should not unless the leader holds both Ace be ventured upon, as the fact that and. King of DiamonJs. 1 North holds the missing Spade I have said that psychic bids tricks weakens East's expectations should not be used on CJtegory A in the other suits. hands but as usual, there is an In this type of slar~i, the "shape" exc e p~ io n to this rule. \\'here it held by the "psychist" may vary is clear from the CJut;;ct of the ·considerably, but in the bid suit bidding that the grand slam is he must hold tlz e guarded King. " cold " an attcm pt should, if. .. There are two reasons why his practicable, he made to play the second bid should be No T rumps hand in a redoubled contract . .and not Clubs : viz., Here is an example :- (1) No Trumps adds to the WEST EAST deception . regarding the Spades, + A K Q x x x + x x :whereas· Clubs would detract from \? ~ K Q J x x \? x it, and o x o Ax (2) he should I_lOt take the risk + Void + AK QJ xx xx (in spite of the " stop bid " rule) West, as dealer, opens with a of getting a ' Six No Trumps bid forcing bid of 2 .Clubs and South from West which, in view of his at OQCe visualises a fin al contract own Spade holding, might be fatal. of Seven No Trumps redoubled, (2) \VEST EA!>T provided he can induce the . + AKQJxx + xx opposition to double " on the \? Axx \? xx bidding." He accordingly responds 0 XXX · 0 XXX with a negative Two Diamonds + Kx + .AQJxxx and when West bids 2 + , he again signs off with 2 NT'. West bids 'Vest ' opens with a Spade to which East replies 2 Clubs. West 3 \? and East' now bids 4 0 now bids two ' Diamonds I This (which, of course, cannot be serves two purposes, as it' may not pas~ed and ; is an honest cu e ~ bid). West npw bids Six Hearts. only inhibit a Diamond lea~ but may elicit valuable information . ~ In order fully to complete the regarding the Diamond suit from d~ception, East might reply with EU$t. As the latter bids 3 + , it is ?•x No Trumps only, but there probable that the partnership is IS more than a chance that North •• wide open" in Diamonds,. and may leave this alone and the risk that not only the. slam but even of losing the grand sl~m can hardly game may be off. be taken. If, however, the opponents can East; therefore, bids Seven No i b e bluffed out of leading Diamonds·, Trumps and hopes that one of the t the slam may easily be made and oppon~n~ .may. hold an apparently r. North now therefore boldly bids sure tnck 1D Dtamond and on the Six Spades. It is not easy for the strength of it and the dubious opponents to visualise a bid of sound of the bidding, double. 20 r: I

O VER- DUCATED EVANS * by Graham Mathieson

CAN'T help thinking that, if players, the origin of which can .Skid's famous four (headed often be traced back to the I by the redoubtable Mrs. influence of this or that " Master." Guggenheim) could continue to One of the most common- and, play their deathlcR:; rubbers into incidentally, most fatuous-is the eternity, my fri end Ove r-Educated theory that, to make a forcing Evans would ultimately have joined response to a partner's opening them as a fifth. bid, one must have support in Day after day at the clubs you partner's suit. see satellites \\'ho have been · And every day you see players worshipping at the feet of some with some gigantic hand trying master, ·trying to emulate his frantically to catch up with them­ particular style of play ; but selves because they have been always they fai l to see the subtle swayed by this ancient an? absurd difference between their own dictum-which I well remember situation and that when their was propounded once by a well­ idol brought off his coup. Night known player . . . who has long after night you hear them mis­ since revised his views. quoting the words of their particular Can you remember the wild prophet,- am~ the number of orgy of Protection what 'went on prophets- and satellites- is, of· when .first the Sims theory course, still growing. percolated ~~to Britain ? Players . Perhaps ' the first of these all over England were opening · maestros who had a host of would­ third and fourth-in-hand on be imitators was that prince of skeletons lest partner might have personalities, Dick Lederer. I made a trap-pass ; while, if the shall always cherish the memory opening bid \vas passed by opener's of how, when a lady asked him partner, fourth players assumed at how . many points he wanted to once that second-in-hand held at make an opening 2 NT bid, his least a 17-count on which he had instant reply flashed .out : that he done nothing ! Even nowadays had no idea but he knew a good you see .the most comical examples hand ,~ hen he saw one I .. Qf that. theory exaggerated to one Many were the heart-burnings . degree' further by followers of one and disasters that ensued from the school who wait for several rounds hundreds who had tried . to copy of bidding . before making a . his inimitable flair. It is doubt(ul " masterly " interposition at the . whether Lederer could ever really height of Three . explain why he did this or that ; The list is endless, of course.. but as he was nearly always right, But it all adds to the fun of the tl1at was , good enough for him. game, and makes fresh copy for But hqw· impossib1e to imitate I the hard-luck stories over the pre-prandia!' Martini at the bar. T here are many hide-bound . fallacies which still persist in the *Grateful apologif! s to the shade of minds · of a vast percentage of Edgar Wallace.

21 ;PALOOKAS AT PLAY by C. R. B. Murray

HIS is a " Believe it or not " by this warning, East, to " ·hom record. Both hands were all discarding is merely a shedding T actually dealt, bid and played of cards, the lower the better, 1n the writer's presence, which continued with the Queen of goes to show that, among Palookas, Clubs, captured by North's King. you can get away with almost anything ! North led Queen of Hearts, which East took with his King, The first hand was as follows : following with his third Club, • 3 which fell to North's Jack. The - " Q J 10 7 6 3 suit was now established but, · 0 7 before playing out his two winning + KJ 9 7 5 Clubs, North led his Jack of Hearts, taken by \Vest's Ace. ·+ KQ6 + A72 The latter then led King of Spades, ~ A4 "K 9 5 on which East, true to his discarding 0 J 6 3 2 0 A984 technique, played the Two. \Vest, + "10862 + AQ3 after some hesitation finally • J 10 9 8 54 produced his last Club, assuming from both bidding and play that "0 K8 2Q 105 East had started life · with four .+ 4 Clubs! North, South and \Vest were North, hardly able to believe fair club players, · of the type· his luck, took it and proceeded to -described as " good " by Palookas . lead out his last Club and his but as " P~lookas " in more expert remaining Hearts. After the -circles ; and East was an amiable eleventh trick East was left with -octogenarian and a Palooka by the Aces of Spades and Diamonds even Mrs. Guggenheim's yardstick. and, on the lead of the last Heart, · had to choose which to discard. East-\.Y est only were vulnerable After much calculation and .and the bidding went : stertorous breathing, he discarded " rEST Nonn-r EAST SouTH the Ace of Diamonds and Dummy's · 1 + 1" 3+ 3 + King of Diamonds won the last No bid 3 NT No bid No bid trick.· No bid It takes no very expert analysis \Vithout commenting, I merely to demonstrate that as the cards draw attention to \Vest's opening lie, East- West had ' the game in bid on 10 points, ,Nqrth's Three No-Trumps I No-Trump bid and the aged East's omission to double a contract The second .hand was not such which, against normf!l defence, a flagrant example of Palookas At should have been five down. Play, but it includes two instances of Palooka fallacies, handed down East led Ace of Clubs, on which from antediluvian days and still '\Vest played the Two. Undeterred too often persisted in. 22 7

CONTRACT BRIDGE JOURNAL East-\Yest ''lllncrable. ruffed his remaining Heart with AS Dummy's Ace of Spades and th~n r::; 3 played Jack of Diamonds in the 0 J87643 not very lively hope that Ace and King might crash together. + 87 53 But this is just what did happen. + 32 ~1064 \:,:> K Q J 9 2 \J A 10 8 7 4 East had been brought up on the maxim " always cover an honour " 0 A 0 K2 and, as a matter of course, put on ·+ K J 10 6 2 + A Q 4 the King of Diamonds. South + KQJ987 threw his Queen and West's Ace

(a) Is there any lead which .POST-MORTEM gives North-South the grand slam ? by "TENEX" (b) How do North-South take advantage of such a lead ? • Q8642 (c) How do East-West defeat

WING to currency Copenhagen team fin ished in the restrictions there were fewer first three places. O countries represented at There was the usual friendly Deauville this year. Nine teams house-party atmosphere about this of fo ur took part : two from Paris, outstandingly enjoyable Congress ; one from Rauen (the French and although the French ,;w~ pt the proYincial champions), one Franco­ board, their strongc:;t players in Swiss, one D utch, ·one Belgian the teams of four split up, as they and thre'e English teams captained usually do in all save the most by Colonel Walshe, Lady Rhodes important competitions and and Standish Booker. partnered the women players . . These nine teams were divided No wonder the French girls play into three groups, with one French well when they get so much first and one English team seeded· into class match experience. each. ' · Three sessio~s of twelve . boards Results . were played against each other Teams of Four team in the same group and the winner passed into Pool " A " 1. Ba~on de Nexon's team where the final was played on the (Baron de Nexon, Dr. same principle, 36 boards in all Blaizot, M. Koytchou, against the other two finalists. Mme Behr, Mme Martin. The si.'\: losing teams passed 2. M. Odry (Belgium). into Pool " B " where the winner 3. S. Bo~ker (England). was decided on· knock out lines. Consolation Teams of Four The only English: team to win their section was Standish Booker's, Mile de Boisrriartin's Franco­ though Colonel · Walshe achieved Swiss team. the distinction· of being the only Individual side to beat the ultimate winners, captainec;l by Baron de Nexon, 1. M. Koytchou 588 subsequently losing by a large 2. Dr. Blaizot · 576 . margin •9f ' ! goal ". average. 3; Baron de .Nexon 558 . In Pool " B " J?oth English teams lost by the same narrow margin 1st Pairs of one match poi'nt, and the final N.S. 1. Baguenelt (Fr.) was fought out between two French & Beguirr (Sw.) 195 teams. . , 2. B. Shapiro and The latter h·alf of the 'week ·was Mrs. Fleming devoted to the individual tourna­ (Eng.) .. .. 191 ment, which was decided, as usual in France, on the best individual E.W. 1. Dr. Blaizot and percentage of a player partnered Koytchou (Fr.) 201' by three others of his own selection . . 2. Odry and Van Once again the French were · Biesen (Belg.) 196 triumphant and three of their (Coizti11u ed 0 11 page 2 8) .G O$SIP OF THE MoNTH by Guy Ramsey

RIVILEGED to relieve Boris ·was not . a psike designed to stop Shapiro as partner to Terence a Club lead but a mere mark-time P Reese in " set" rubber-game bid to which partner must respond . .against visiting Swedish stars Koch .(who played before the war for his It marked not only time but a ·country) and Jannersten, picked minus 1,100 on the score card. ·up hand with seven Clubs to four honours missing . the Ace and a * * .side Ace. 'Vas wondering whether Letter from Clifford Ullman, to mumble modest Cluck, pre­ Skid Simon's partner in the first ·-empt (but how many ?) or pass big Duplicate he played (against with cunning (dodge recommended the old British Bridge World team , by Paul Stern),. when -Koch on. my of Konsta:m - 'Westall - Rivlin Jeft, who had dealt, . opened One captained by Herbert Phillips), .Something. · · · tells ·of Chicago Congress ,\·hich ·is· to run for NINE days and ·.·'Terence ·passed and Jannersten 'anticipates THREE HUNDRED :said Two Clubs ! Qpened my tables. The Land of the Big· and mouth to :double and · closed' it the Home . of the Brave with a :3gain. 1 . /zad 11ot passed and such vengeance. a bid would have (a · Ia Simon) ~ounced .a ·big two;-:suiter in the The. qu~stion universally being ·unbid colours. Koch bounced asked mthe Dominion is : " Who dir~ct to 3 NT \vhich -\vas · passe~ is Terence· Reese?" · His 'classic -round. to me. text-book " Reese on Play" has . ·My ·only hope to be of use was (justifiably) gone from Quebec to Vancouver like wildfire-with the "to double for a Club lead ; · but result that the Canucks, who (with \Vise players. d~ not use . SUCh a one or two individual exceptions) bid as · an absolute command to have never made a heavy mark on -partner to lea.d Dummy's suit ; , are now likely it is a sort of optional ·double : to be heard of in no !!mall measure. lead . as you · think best, but obviously I shouldn't crack if I Ullman- Acolyte to the core-­ .did not, guard Dummy's suit. got into very hot. water by opening · However, I · did double and 3 NT on the sort of hand this bid '·prayed Terence had no· suit of his connotes in Acol- a long solid ·own. As he held the 'sort of,hand minor and a couple of hopes­ I specialise in, he produced (with instead of a balanced " six honour .a good deal of misgiving, I suspect) tricks." · .a singleton Club. J annersten went But he also came second with a ·down with a goodish hand : not strange partner in a Pairs after -good enough for a forcing 2 NT, a mere 5-minute prdiminary .as played by the strict Swedish conversation . .Culbertsonians, but still a good band and three small Clubs. This * * C O NT R ACT BRI DGE JO URNAL ' . . Amusing sidelight on Scottish rebid (again not unnaturally} her bridge-Culbertsonians to a man 6-card suit. This, dealer took out (and woman) following Alice with Three Diamonds (doubled} Mackenzie who scorns points, and-on the theory that the Spade derides Blackwood (hear, hear I) hand as a dummy for Diamo11ds­ and spurns any variety of Two could be worth at most one ruff Club. Playing at the Melville but as a Spade hand was worth (Edinb:urgh's ranking centre with four tricks (with Opening Partner's a Club stake of 2d. a hundred}, presumed top cards still making} ' cut strange partner who suggested, took out to Three Spades, also­ with a gleam of mischief more doubled and down four. suitable to a proposal for a smash­ Both players still convinced their and-grab than a change of system, theory is right : Diamondist would , " Shall we play the Two Club and have been down on less, being: Blackwood ? " void of Spades. Rest of room looked like a Twenty or so .years ago, Geoffrey Bateman. drawing. Mott-Smith wrote of the judgment One hand of interest : I opened needed in this situation ; only in Spade on five to Ace-Knave, no rare circumstances, said he, should Hearts,_ Ace King Queen Ten of one partner over-ride the other. Diamonds · and four Clubs to Gossiper's own view : with three: Knave Ten. Partner, of course, of partner's trumps, Pass Blind !. Two Hearts. Fourth-hand, with . six Clubs to tierce major, Three * * * Clubs which, for \Yant of anything Disconsolate Gossiper's Master better, .I popp.ed. The· attack was Bid that misfired. Heard partner not too good ; the defence was open Spade and beheld : Quart pretty hot and Declarer made her major to eight Hearts, King-ex in Club honours only. · Spades, Ace - Queen - ex in Six Down. Lovely I Diamonds. Bid immediate 4 NT' . - (Culbertson) and, receiving Five­ * * * Practical problem came to head Spade response, bid Six ~. Such. in rubber recently : is it better a bid must be passed : Heartist. having taken control. to bid suit of value only when trumps, thereby raising totaLhand­ Partner, however, had different value from zero to (say) four ideas : on eight Spades to Ace­ tricks ; or leave partner in his Knave, void Heart and the Minor suit of which you have neutral to Kings, . he went Six Spades. bad support ? Gossiper, seeing one Master Bid . Mrs. B. Davies, sister of Harriet eras~.. in flames, dared not try a. Cohen, held Queen Knave Ten second (viz., 6 NT}, although the­ six times Spades ; doubleton Club Ace was, in fact, " right." Heart ; three tiny Diamonds and Partner went down ingloriously doubleton Club. Over partner's by a trick, the Spade Queen Diamond, bid (not unnaturally) failing to drop or be finessable Spade ; rude opponent Gossiper and the holder being short in butted in with Hearts and,Mrs. D., Hearts. with something up against her, Grrr ! I' 1948-49 CALENDAR

The Co:-:TRACT BRIDGE ]OURNAL priuts a rough Caleudar for the f orthcoming Seasou 011 this page. Auy con·ections aud alterations rvill be published as soon as they shall be made ; aud in subsequent numbers, rele'IJall t dates tvill be printed, so that readers may knotv at a glance by

VANISHING TRICKS (from page 15) These trump-reducing plays are Dummy therefore plays low and -so effective in extricating declarer East ruffs. He now gives up a from an apparently impossible Heart, and we will assume that a ·situation that he should always Club is returned. Again East be on the look-out for the trumps, and ruffs his last ~cart <>pportunity of using · -them. For in dummy. + K is now played ; instance:.. · if South shows out, North's trumps can · be picked up ; but as it WEST EAST happens it is North · who fails, • 1{82 + A Q 10 6 43 marking South with J 9 7 5 . c

DEAUVILLE {from page 23) 27ld Pairs 3rd Pairs N.S. 1. Niellon and N.S. 1. Mme de Montaigu Guillemaut (Fr.) 201 (Fr.) and K. 2. Miss Van Rijn & Konstam (Eng.) 190 Van der Meer 2. Dr. Lee and A. (Holland) 196 Brown (Eng.).. 186 E.W. 1. E.W. 1. Baron de Nexon D r. Madgwick and Dr. Blaizot and S. Booker (Eng.) . . .. (Fr.) 205 1!1 2. Mrs. Markus 2. Mme Martin and (Eng.) and de Koytchou (Fr.) 202 Boysson (Fr.).. 189 28 Th is_ oHth's tiJmpetititm by Boris Shapiro

. The CONTRACT BRIDGE You, South, hold the following, whnt JOURNAL offers a prize of TWO do you bid? G UINEAS foi· the best set of solutions to the following problems. In the + A 7 . \7.9 3. 2 0 A Q 7 5 3 + 8 '4 3 event of two or more sets of solutions being of equal merit, the monthly prize will be divided. · \ : 3. The bidding has gone: Answers to CONTRACT BRIDGE JOURNAL · (Editorial Department) SouTH WEST NoRTH EAST 13, Cannon Place, London, N.W.3, not 1 0 No bid 1 \7 No bid Inter than September 25th, 1948. Solutions · and names of prize winners You, South, hold the following : in the August Competition, appear on page 18. + AK4 \7K65 OAK842 + 54 The second Competition in the What do you bid ? present six-monthly contest is set by Boris Shapiro ; the first was by Ken­ ·~ ~~ I' I .. neth Konstam. It is our ambition 4. Th~ ·-bidding ha' proceeded' to print one Competition from each (vulnembility immaterial) as follows ; of the England sestet in the half- EAST SOUTH WEST NORTH . yearly events. . 1 + . No bid 1 NT No bid This section of the Journal will, 3 + No bid 4 + No bid thereafter, take n slightly new depar­ No bid No bid -ture. Each month a representative star of n different, but recognised, South lends the Queen of Clubs, system will be invited to set the WEST problems. These may be questions • J4 on pure bridge or may hinge on the \7 A642 n ~ thor's pet manner and style of play. 0 K754 This innovation is designed to + J 53 familiarise newcomerli to Duplicate, with the severn! systems they will SOUTH encounter in competitive play. + QS " 53 ""3 S I 1. Both sides vulnemble, the 0 AQ98632 bidding has proceeded as , follows : + Q6 West 1 \7 ; Nardi 1 + ; . East 3 \7. North plays the 8 of Clubs, 'Vest You, South, hold the followmg: and East duly following suit, South + Q 6 H . 3 2 \7- 0 K J 9 2 + J7 5 plays his 6 of Clubs, North winning with the ICing. East . and 'Vest still What do you bid ? following, North now plays the Ace \Si·.'., ~ 2. Vulnombility immaterial, the of Clubs, East still following suit. What do you, South, now play, and ( C: ~idding has gone as follows : why? '=- ..-J East and ' West being silent throughout, -s ,,\1 North South 5. The bidding hns proceeded 2 . 3 0 North, 3 + ; East, No bid. You, South, 3 " 3 • hold the following. What do you bid ? 4 + 4 . 5 • ? + - \7AK64 OAK63 + AKH2 29 CONTRACT BRIDG E JO URNA L .It seems that in Problem 1 set by 2. Your partner is L eslie Dodds. East-\Vest only are Game. T he Kenneth Konslam · last inonth a bidding bus gone : totally e:ctra11eous " x " crept into tlzc · hand ; and tlzc cards as W EST N oRTH . EAST S o UTH 1 + 1 ~ 2 + 3 ~ set out therefore mmzbered 14-. 4 ~ No 4-NT(b) 5 0 Whether this fault was due to 6 + ? proof-readel', pri11ter or sub-editor You, North, hold: is irrelevant : our profound apologies +- ~KJ10xx OJ10x:tx +Jx x botlz to llfr. Komtam a11d to those What should you bid ? .solvers wlzo foulld tlz.emselves baffled .or irritated. .A.'

.It is Game All. The bidding has gone : .A.'

You, South, hold : ANSWER 4f~ AJxxxx \Jxx 0 10x + xxx · No bid-15 points. Four Clubs- What should you lend ? 5 points. All other bids-Zero. I Skid has jumped the bidding over .ANSWER .. 2 + to 3 NT : he m ust ha,·e a very Ten of D iamo.ncl~-15 points. Small good reason. He must have a double ·Ciub-10 p oint~ . Any other card­ guard in Hearts and probably the Ace Zero. of Clubs. Nine tricks m ust be easier Boris has certainly not doubled for than 10, and you don't have to worry about the possibility of a bad Spade -the sake of gaining 50 points I His break or the risk that Skid has only · ~oilble must say : Partner, don't make three cards. (The late S . J. Simon .a normal lend. I want opponents' suit. · experimented freely t'•itlz 3-card suits­ On the bidding, the Ace of Spades Editor). The only altem ati\·e would will almost certainly be .trumped, and be 4 + -a mild slam-try, scarcely ·one of the suits will be solid for the justified on your cards. ~iscnrd of :my losers. The 0 10 is preferable to the Club as East's jump (NoTE : Tlzis lzand has pror:ided "to 6 \J over 5 + rather indicates that muclz lzeart-buming and heart-searching he fits the Clubs. ever since Mr. KoiiStam submitted it. Quat homines, tot sententiae, with a · 5. Your partner is Edward RaY?e· vengeance. Tlzis is 1\Ir. Komtam's ·_;\t Game to East-West, the biddmg_ competition mzd he rules the roost ; . but bas gone: we have every · sympathy rd th solvers tclzo get a duck t'>itlz a + + amtcer, to ' WEST NoRTH EAST SOUTH tvhich several front-rankers, and tee 1 cv 1 • Dble No ourselves, incline.-Editor). 2 cv No 4\J ? You, South, hold: 7. Your partner is Mrs. A. L. Fleming. The bidding, at Gume to 4f~ KJ109~x \Jxx 0- + Oxxxx East-West, has gone What should you bid-and why ? WEST NORTH EAST SouTH ANSWER 1 + No 1 \J 2 0 No bid-15 points. All other bids­ 1. + No 3 NT No Zero. · 6 + No No Dble , No No No On the face of it, 4 + looks to be You, North, hold: ·\'ery cheap, but you have been ~oubled in One which means that Eddze m ust • 10 X X X X \J X X X 0 X X + X X X have p~yched I If you ~id ~ CV, he What should you lend ? will have to bid 5 O, whzch zs almost certainly his escape suit. And how ANiWER many tricks can your hand l?roduce The top Heart-15 points. A Spade . played in Diamonds ? So. JUSt go -8 points. Any other card-Zero . -quietly and hope that Eddze has a void Spade in · which case you .can " Dimmie " has bid D iamonds so -quickly pick up tJ;le first four tncks normally, if she doesn't double, you by ruffing and get oppo~ents one down. arc expected to lead her suit. But the opponents i:lon't seem worried about Diamonds and " Dimmie " has taken · 6 Your partner is S. J. Simon. the trouble to double, so she must At Game to North-South, the bidding want not the few extra points that has gone: One 'Down doubled brings in, but a NORTH EAST SouTH WEST big swing, on th\! hund which un 1 + No 1 • 2 cv unexpected lend may produce. The 2 + No 3 NT No 1 only alternative is a Spade lead, but ? \Vith only five cards in the black major You, North, hold: yourself and no Spade support from East, your partner pmctically cannot + Axxx \Jx 0 Kxx + KQJxx h 11 \'e a void. Still, anything is better What should you bid ~ than u Diamond. 31 _, CONTRACT DRID.GE JOURN·AL ENGLISH BRWGE UNION LIST OF SECRETARIES

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