. '. - The British Bridge World
SUCCESSOR TO THE CONTRACT BRIDGE JOURNAL: MEDIUM FOR ENGLISH BRIDGE UNION NEWS
Edited by TERENCE REESE
voLUME 9 February 1960 NUMBER 2
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3 February, !960 Contents Page
Editorial 5-6 Bridge Forum 6 The Whitelaw Warriors, by George Baxter 7-10 Expected Entries for Olympiad at Turin ... 10
'Slamentable, by Harold Fra~klin ...... 11-17 Yorkshire Wins Tollemache Cup, by Terence Reese . .. 19-21
· One Hundred Up: Repeat of January Prob~ems 22 . E.B. U. List of Secretaries ... 23 - Court of Sessions, by Alan Trusc
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·- 4 Editorial - •I BEFO!ffi THE STORM in soliciting, and being influenced Something of a lull this month, by, advice . from many quarters. with domestic news. occupying Human nature being what it is, it most of our space: Tollemach~, can happen that players on the Whitelaw, and Camrose. Next fringe, as it were~ who know that month, the Masters Pairs (already they would not be chosen by any over by the time this issue comes direct vote, will tend to propose out), the second half of the Open a form of trial that unduly widens ·Trials, and the Ladies' Trials to the ·possibilities. One did not find a third pair, Mrs. Gordon have to be a psychologist to and Mrs. Fleming, Mrs. Markus perceive that line of thought and Mrs. Whitaker having already being expressed when the last been selected. pl£!-yers' meeting was held. The FORUM foolish advice, "Send the winners . In our correspondence column of the Gold Cup", usually springs Geoffrey Butler, as Chairman of from the same motive. the B.B.L., replies to the critic GREAT POWER isms made by Albert Dormer The A.C.B.L. has picke'd two . last month and opens for dis additional teams for the Open at cussion among leading ·players Turin. and a Ladies' team. The the system of trials to be adopted open teams are: Goren, Helen when the European Champion Sobel, Schenken, Ogust, Mathe, ship comes to Torquay next year. Taylor; and Harmon, Stakgold, Admirable as it may be to avoid Lazard, Hanna, Oakie, Schleifer. being autocratic and to invite The ladies' team: Agnes Gordon, opinions from ail, I cannot help Sylvia Schwartz, Dorothy Hay thinking that this offer is pre den, Josephine Sharp, Malvina mature. The possibility is not Klausner, Helen Portugal. entirely to be excluded, one hopes, FRATERNAL AID that our representatives at Turin The two teams announced should perform with sufficient earlier were Jacoby, Stayman, credit to have a bearing on the Mitcheii, Rubin, Rubinow, following year's selection. Grieve; · and Becker, Crawford, ROOM AT THE TOP Silodor, Rapee, Stone, Kay. In addition, there are pitfalls At a B.B.L. meeting a delegate s - ' , ... ~
from one of the home countries The publisher, George ~ Coffin \. raised the following question: . writes to me:- ' Since America had four teams "As soon as "Master Play " might it not happen that towards is . -published, I will - send you the end of the qualifying round author's copies. You may not one team would be in a position like some of the changes, and to assist another? bits of poetry ". That gives rise to some interest I'm sure I shall. ing, reflections. _Let me see now ... LIFE IS FULL OF TROUBLE VERSIFIED After the delays that seem to Mrs. Markus's account of a be endemic in the publishing bidding misadventure in the world, my book " The Expert Whitelaw began:- Game " is to appear in America "It we~t No Bid,. :No Bid-and under the title " Master Play " . I was trapped! "
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Five Sessions of Play, Practice and Tuition!
• I TERENCE REESE HAROLD FRANKLIN and JOE LAZARUS announce their first week-end
BRIDGE FORUM at the ~ERIAL HOTEL, BLACKPOOL
Saturday, February 27th, and Sunday, February 28th, 1960
Inclusive fee for all play and tuition: 50/- You can enter as a pair or individually Accommodation is limited. Be wise! Be helpful! Send your entry NOW to the Ron. Sec., Mrs. L. P. Robinson, Madrid-Loftus, 58 Whinney-Heys Road, Blackpool, enclosing the entry fee at 50/- a head. If requested, the Hon. Sec. will book your accommodation. Please state requirements. (A summary of the Programme appeared in the December, 1959, issue)
6 The· Whitelaw ·Warriors by GEORGE BAXTER
" My driving ", said Bert Dor next round. Mistresses Markus, mer, having just passed his test, Whitaker, Durran, and Lady "is as steady and well founded · Rhodes, defeated Fleming, Gor as my bid dings ". And so it don, Williams, and Moss (with proved, though it became clear Rye and Gardner in reserve), by on the way to Eastbourne and 2 points in a match that was back that his Take-over Conven level throughout. tion of Winking Lights was not The losers missed a chance on played by other motorists. the following instructive deal:- When we arrived there had al North dealer ready been a pr~liminary round Love all of the Whitelaw, reducing the NORTH teams from 24 to 16. The most + KQ6 notable result so' far of the 32- \1 A 8 4 board matches had been the 0 Q9 6 3 eclipse of Mistresses MacDonnell, + J74 Coen, Higginson, and Gar WEST EAST dener by Shanahan, Hiron (for • J 10 7 2 +3 merly van Rees), Oldroyd, Cor \1 QJ7632 \1 K 10 9 wen_..:._the margin no less than 34. 0 10 4 0 A 7 5 In the first round proper came +I( + 10 9 6 53 2 the first sensation : the Shanahan SOUTH team lost by 31 to Mistresses + A9854 Schellenberg (Middlesborough), \15 Carpenter (Durham), Jackson 0 KJ 8 2 (Newcastle), and Nicholson + AQ8 (Sunderland). Oldroyd and This was the bidding when , Corwen ·accepted most of the M~s. Markus was North-South:- blame for this reverse. SouTH WEsT NoRTH EAsT Markus Gordon Whitaker Fleming Quarter Finals No No Since there is no seeding in this I+ No 30 No contest' the two most fancied 40 No 4+ No teams chanced to meet in the No No 7 ' • 1 ...
Repeated for convenience .. •' I ~ but throws a -diamond. West NoRTH ruffs the ' next lead and plays a • KQ6 ~ A84 heart; dummy ruffs but declarer 0 Q9 6 3 cannot come to hand to draw the + J 74 . outstanding trunip. WEST EAST .• J 10 7 2 • 3 . This sequence ruff is then likely to be the wrong When the spades were seen to game. be · 4-1 declarer was in some trouble, for the diamond Ace NORTH had to be forced out and two • 6 ~ricks ~ould be needed from
Moss; p~operly refusing the finesse trumps' to the Jack. These broke because if the spades were going _ 4-1 and "the- Northern team bid to break there would be at least the small slam to gain 10 points. nine tricks, was rewarded by the Then came a sensational deal:- fall of the singleton King. South dealer Game all . Semi-Finals NORTH In the semi-final matches Mrs. + A 10 7 52 Markus had a big win against
I - 9 . fault in doubling instead of bid ·like losing, the Northern players ding a straightforward Five Clubs. h~d a very credita~le match. In , West might have taken out the fairness to the winners, it must double into 4NT, but from her be remarked that Mrs. Whitaker side partner could have had a was under the weather with trick in spades. laryngitis. There were times when Notwithstanding this further she needed all her voice. gain of 6 I:M.P., Mrs. Schellen So ended a very agreeable week berg dropped two more points end. Her many friends who were on the set, to be 25 down after 48. there took the opportunity to Her team continued to fight well, compile a diary of best wishes to cutting down the lead to 17 after Mrs. "Faff" Robinson, now -56 and finally to 10. So, al recovering from an operation though Mrs. Markus never looked and sadly missed by all.
Expected Entries for Olympiad · at Turin
April 23 to May 6 (approx.) Open Series Ladies Series Argentina India Argentimi Australia Indonesia Australia Austria Ireland Austria Belgium Italy Belgium Brazil Lebanon Denmark Canada Philippines Egypt Denmark Poland France Egypt S. Africa Germany Finland Spain Gt. Britain France Sweden Iceland Germany Switzerland Ireland Gt. Britain U.S.A. (4 teams) Italy Holland Venezuela S. Africa Iceland U.S.A. Further entries may still come fro~ other countries. 10 'Siamentable
by HAROLD FRANKLIN
In the last three world cham Clubs. The only pair to miss the ship matches the ·Americans slam bid a~ · follows:- reckon to have lost heavily to WEST EAST the_Italians on slam bidding, and 1.\/ 2+ Britain too has little ground for · 4+ 4\? complacency in this department. No It is possible that East, J. Tarlo, This year's B.B.L. selection trial imagined his bid of Four Hearts in which twelve of our leading to be constructive: there is no pairs played the same hands under basis fQr regarding it as more team conditions offers an admir 'than an effort to play in Four able opportunity to study the Hearts, and East seems far too strength and weakness of our I strong for such an easy surrender. slam bidding, and the hands .in the first trial might well have been It seems that at most levels of designed for that specific purpose. play the enthusiastic reception accorded to a 4-4 fit tends to In the first ~ession there were no colour the judgment, whereas fewer than seven hands· to tempt few seem to bear in mind the the slam-minded. The first of amount of work that generally them found five of the six tables has to be done with hands of the on target. 4 4 3-2 pattern at suit play. West dealer By way of ill~stration, the second East-West vulnerable slam hand, which found two pairs WEST EAST of victims:- .18 +A6 East dealer \? K J 10 8 6 \? A 9 4 Game all OA8 OQ94 WEST EAST + A K 1Q 9 + Q J 7 6 4 + A2 • J 6 4 The bidding always began, One \? Q .10 6 5 \? A K 8 2 Heart-Two Clubs. At this point 0 A 10 8 4 0 KJ it was generally judged that Four + Q J 10 + A6 52 Clubs best described the West Three of six East players opened hand, one only electing for Three One Heart. In support of my view 11 .·. 4 ..... J,;O' .. .· .,: , ~e_ st would have been holding nothing back had he bid simply Four Hearts on "the second round . .THE .AMERICAN . The attraction- of the 4-4 fit leads to many slams in which there. is too much work to do: -BRIDGE WORLD it also tends to encourage a dangerous disregard for the Subscriptions strength of ·the trump -holding, for One Year • £2 6 0 as _on the very next deal. Two Years • - £3 IS 0 East dealer Love all NORTH Sole Agent in Great Britain : ' + AJ 1\lra. Rixi 1\larkua y> Q742 5 Buil M1111Sions, Basil Street, S.W.3 0 8 7 + }( 10 7 54 WEST EAST • . Q 10 87 + K642 y> A 10 3 y> K9 that West should simply raise 0 AQ42 0 K J 10 6 5 to Four Hearts, I can say that + AQ ' • 92 it proved right on this. occasion. SOUTH • r Though of the school which' • 9 53 plays the " delayed game raise " y>J865 , as a more powerful sequence 0 9 3 I than the direct game raise, I + J 8 6 3 regard it as a mistake to do too much with balanced hands. In Two pairs were tempted to slam, with varying fortune. The the critical Reese-Gray match 0 West, A. Rose, had one of his . C.A.B. Gladiator response ! lNT worked to good purpose tn very few bad boards in an excel- dds' .. lent week-end's play. He was the hands of Konstam and Do · West in this sequence:- WEST EAST No WEST EAST 2NT ICV 4+ 20 2NT 6+ scv 6CV 12 I If ·the sl~m bidding to date Tile new, true classic of bridge had been characterised by an (Guy Ramsey in the_Daily Telerraph) excess of ambition, the next h :md helped to restore the balance_ THE EXPERT GAME East dealer by Terence Reese Love all WEST EAST
Edward Arnold Ltd. lls. 6d. +A Q J + 10 2 cy> A K Q 10 7 6 cy> J 9 8 5 0 .J 0 A 10 9 6 3 Two No Trumps is a game + K 10 8 + AQ forcing response, inviting partner Only one table in six was able to bid his four card suit or suits. to arrive at the .lay-down grand One must give credit for the fact slam. A striking feature of the. that West could expect to have week-end was the penchant for a better chance with the lead up sub-standard opening bids, with to his own hand: having said the younger players setting the that, one must add that at best note. On this occasion it was they could have · marginal slam the older school, Konstam and values and it was a happy thing J. Sharples, who opened One that the hands fitted reasonably Diamond as dealer. and trumps lay well. The other slam aspirants, the WEST EAST Sharples, were less fortunate after 10 this sequence:- 2\? 3\? WEST EAST 4NT 5NT 1 No 6\? No ~0 1+ That was the Sharples sequence. 4+ 50 Dodds was obliged to. respond 60 No One Heart with the West hand Once again, if nothing ~lse, since Two Hearts would, by the spade holding should, have their methods, be a limited bid: warned East away from further after partner had raised in hearts , action. Two other East players he went through the mechanics passed F,our Spades after a simihir of Blackwood and- surrendered beginning, while two East players at Six Hearts. made what I consider the better initial response of Three Dia Reese-Schapiro and Tarlo monds. Franklin both began as follows:- 13 - ' . ~ WEST EAST of One Diamond, and two opting No for One Club. In tlw East seat 2\? 3\? . I began with ' a bad initial bid 3. 40 and continued with a succession At this stage Schapiro bid Six of worse chosen bids, as follows: Hearts with the West hand, while · WEST EAST Tarlo bid Four Hearts. Over I+ 20 Six Hearts it was no problem 30 3. for Reese to raise to Seven Hearts. -4+ 4\/ S~ Hearts is certainly bold, . for 50 6NT on the evidence to date the slam is likely to be on a finesse at I was favoured with a neutral .. best-probably on two finesses. lead but since the club finesse When West bid Four Hearts, succeeded the contract would in East bid Five Clubs and West any event have met a better fate then Six Hearts. It seems that, than it merited. with so much in hand, West Dodds also opened One Club, might have preferred a bid of and once again the new. theory Six Clubs. · of treating the jump response· in , · After a borderline slam which a major as limited produced a was bid by exactly half the tables very laboured sequence:- and had to fail as the cards lay, WEST EAST the final test in the first round was an easy slam in which two I+ 1. 3+ pairs failed to reach Six, three 2+ 3+ 40 were fortunate when they reached 4NT slam in the wrong suit and one 4. 50 5NT pair onl~ was in the best spot. 60 6+ West dealer Love all No WEST EAS'F . The Sharples had a feeble • Q7 6 • A K 4 2 auction:- \?9 \/ A 4 2 WEST EAST 0 K J 10 3 0A.Q4 10 2+ +A J 10 6 5 • Q 8 2 3+ 3NT Four out of six West players No favoured the light opening bid Apparently the natural bid of two choo · h ' the . smg t e prepared bid Three Diamonds by East on 14 ' This picture of Harold Franklin was taken on(motlzer occasion. - Photo by Claude Rodrigue
second round would have pro WEST EAST mised four cards. No I+ Priday opened One Club with 2+ 3NT the East hand, his partner having 40 6+ passed, and' West responded Two No No Trumps. By their methods a An old-fashioned, but none the response of One No Trump from less a· sensible idea, to make the a hand which has passed shows bid that describes the character 10-12 points; Two No Trumps of the hand. therefore shows a maximum pass The subsequent sessions were with a super club fit. Priday was not ·so prolific of potential slam embarrassed by the fact that he hands. did ·not himself hold a biddable The light opening bid could suit and so he .closed the auction not be advanced as the only with a bid of Three No Trumps. reason for the failures on this Reese ana Schapiro showed hand where five pairs out of six how easy it was with a sequence reached a grand slam. for which . of natural bids. there was no play:- 15 • I ' j" East dealer in clubs and hearts. Konsta~ Love all and. Dodd~ were the only pair to WEST EAST avotd an Impossible grand slam +AK4' +2 as follows:- ' \7 A62 \7 KQJ8 WEST EAST 0 A Q J 7 0 I( 10 6 4 No +A87 +Q952 2NT 3+ J. Sharples, Rougier and 30 40 Schapiro all opened One Heart 60 No . with the East hand, ~nd after they had given immediate support A 4-4 fit and two balanced to the diamond response West hands proved a trap once more could not stay out of Seven. to North and Pugh:- , Truscott and I were both per West dealer mitted· to open Two Clubs with Love all .. the West cards, and both our WEST EAST auctions began:- + AQ + K8 WEST EAST \7 KQ 6 \() A853 AJ74 2+ 2\7 0 KQ98 0 2NT · 30 + J 6 53 + Q91 At this stage Truscott bid Four Rose and Pugh were the only Diam~nds and when his partner two to open One Diamond on went on with Five Clubs he the West hand. So unimpressed jumped to Seven Diamonds. Per was Gardener with the shape of haps it was a mistake to show · the East hand that he responded a suit headed by the Queen when Three No Trumps. North and the partnership was headed for Pugh, on the other hand, went a slam-perhaps it was a mistake as follows:- for West to rely on his partner WEST EAST being able to look after his third 10 1'V club and his third · heart. I for 2NT 3 0 my part jumped to Six Diamonds 4\7 60 o~er my partner's bid of Three Perhaps the spade duplicati?n Diamonds and my partner felt was unlucky, but it is not ~n· he had enough in hand to bid significant that even Fiye DJa· one more. All would have been monds was one too high without w. ell had my black King been a club lead. There ts. a I ot to . be 10 clubs and equally well if said for playing no trump shapes I, had, had no mo re tl1an five cards in no trumps. 16 ., . _,, " .. ' • t • ., . ·- In the next session slam at fact that the one suit his partner tempts were infrequent. The two had bid w~s his_ own void. All that were bid we~e not impossible save Gray and ·Reese failed to but both went down. appreciate· that East was li~ely On this hand from the fourth to be embarrassed in the subse session the contracts ranged be quent auction after an opening tween Two Spades and Six bid of One Spade. They took Spades. · their precautions with an open West dealer ing bid of Two Spades and had North-South game no further problem. WEST EAST The only real slam of the . J82 . AQ7653 session was one with an abun \? K IO 8 4 2 CV None dance of tricks and one Ace OKS OA65 missing-and one pair, wit~ the • Q IO 4 + A J 53 confidence of youth, took the The first of the extremes, Aces for granted and essayed Preston and Swimer, thus:- the grand slam. . WEST EAST The first slam of the final No .I. session was an unlucky affair - 2y> 2. that met with five trumps in one No hand. Exaggerated caution on the There ·was little point in the part of both players. Contrast bidding of the final slam, a Six· the following:- No Trumps on adequate values, · WEST EAST and the fact that two experienced No declarers overlooked a safety play I. in a high level contract will at 2
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' 18 Yorkshire ·WinS Tollemache Cup
by TERENCE REESE
(based on notes by John Ox/and)
The final of the Tollemache place of Rose and remarked that Cup, the inter-county event for he was travelling just over 20 teams of eight, was played at the miles per board-and that on the Bristol Bridge Club on January assumption that none wa~ 'thrown 2nd and 3rd and resulted in a in! win for Yorkshire. Thus the At the bottom of the table Cup which London won last year Warwickshire and Somerset had a is now, like the Gold Cup, great battle, Warwickshire win Crockford's Cup, and Pachabo ning by . the minimum 7 po~nts Cup, reposing in the provinces. that counted as a win. Middlesex had comfortable wins against The final placings were:- Warwickshire and Somerset, 1. Yorkshire 6 victory points Yorkshire had to .fight hard in 2. Middlesex 4 , both matches. Thus, in the 3. Warwickshire· 2 , " critical encounter, Yorkshire 4. Somerset 0 , " " needed a clear win against Middle The Yorkshire team, ably led sex, who were ahead on I.M.P. by Geoffrey Fell, included 1. ·The matches were played in Hochwald, J . . Bloomberg, C. four sessions of six boards. At Vickerman, E. C. Milnes, the end of the first set Middlesex R. Dorsey, E. Masser, S. led Yorkshire by 6 points. It was Fielding, E. Newman, I. Man surely in the second six that the nin_g and A. Finlay. match was decided, Yorkshire Middlesex was represented by picking up 18 to finish 12 ahead M. Harrison-Gray (capt.), Miss at halfway. During this period D. Shanahan, R. and J. Sharples, Yorkshire gained 7, 8, 7, on Mrs. M. Whitaker, A. Rose, successive boards. This was the J. Nunes and R. Crown. After first of the three:- the first session on Sunday E. (See next page) Silverstone arrived to take the At two tables East-West played 19 . .- "/ .... - ~ ." ·~· , East dealer normal results an9 one catas ~ North-~outh vulnerable tro.P,he for Middlesex:- NORTH South dealer , + A 10 8 54 Love all \!.? 193 NORTH 0 A 10 7 2 + A K 10 7 4 :• 5 Problem No. 1 (10 points) Problem No. 5 (1 0 points) Match-point pairs, North-South vul- Rubber bridge, love all, the bidding nerable, the bidding has gone:- hasgone:- SoUTH WFST NoRm EAST SoUTH WEST NORTH- EAST tO t'\7 t + 2'\7 10 2'\7 No No No No 40 No ? ? South holds:- South holds:- + QJ74 '\7K3 0AKQ6 + KJ6 + KJ . ~AS OK9862 + t0743 What should South bid? What should South bid? Problem No.6 (10 points) Problem No.2 (tO points) Rubber bridge, love all, the bidding I.M.P. . scoring, love. all, th~ bidding hasgone:- has gone:- SoUTH WFSr NoRm EAST SoUTH WEsT NoRTH ' No I+ No 1~ t + tNT 2NT No · No 2NT 40 ? ? South holds:- South holds:- + QJ4 ~AJ7 0t02 + At0863 + AJ43 '\75 OK9 + A97432 What should South bid? What should South bid? Problem No.3 (10 points) -. P roblem No. 7 (20 points) ·. I.M.P. scoring, North-South vul nerable, the bidding has gone:- I.M.P. Scoring, North-South vul SoUTH WEST NoRm EAsT nerable, the bidding has gone:- No No tO SoUTH WEST NoRTH EAST Dbl. No - t + No t+ ? Dbl. 4+ No No South holds:- ? + AKJ ~KQ1074 09 +KJ~8 South holds:- What should South bid? + K43 '\7KQ6 OAKQ965 +Q (a) Do you agree with South's double . ' Problem No. 4 (20 points) North-South game, the bidding has of One Spade? State any alternative that gone:- you consider preferable. SouTH WEST (b) What should South bid now? EAST No No 21\} Problem No. 8 (10 points) 2+ 3~ ? No SotrrH WEsT NoRm EAST South holds:- 1+ No 1• No tNT No 4. +A3 \11852 019642 + A42 No No No What should South bid:- South holds:- (a) At match-point pairs? (b) At rubber bridge? + A108 '\7A3 OAJ842 + J74 Which card should South lead? 22 I, ·~ E.B.U~ ·List Of 'SecretarieS Chairman R. F. CoRWEN, 535 Otley Road, Adel, Leeds, 16. Vice-Chairman ... H. LAwsoN, 1 Benett Drive, Hove 4. Secretary MRS. A. L. FLEMING, 12 Frant Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Hon. Treasurer H. COLLINS, 54, Cannon Street, London, E.C.4 Hon. Tournament Secretary ... MAJOR GEOFFREY FELL, Craven Lead Works, Skipton, Yorkshire. (Phone: Skipton 3032). Master Points Secretary F. BINGHAM, 48 Lordship Park, London, N.16. Hon. Registrars Messrs. LEAVER COLE & Co. The Council of the English Bridge Union is made up of Delegates from County and Area Associations, whose Secretaries are ·as follows:- BERKS. & BUCKS. . . . Mrs. E. Matthews, 10 Sutton Avenue, Slough. DERBYSIURE E. White, Fiat 2, 193 Station St., Burton-on-Trent DEVON J. Hammond, 6 St. Michael's Road, Torquay. ESSEX Miss M. Eve, 40 Forest Way, Woodford Wells GLOUCESTERSIURE W. N. Morgan-Brown, 5 Douro Road, Chelten- ham HERTFORDSIURE ... C. G. Grenside, 13 Kirkwick Avenue, Harpenden KENT ... Mrs. R. H. Corbett, West Kent Club, Boyne Park, Tunbridge Wells LEICESTERSIURE ... L. G. Cayless, Farm Edge, Leicester Road, . - Thurcaston · LINCOLNSIURE S. Vincent, 46 The Park, Grimsby LONDON F. Pitt-Reynolds, 32 Highbury Place, London, N.S MIDDLESEX Mrs. J. Johnston, Flat 2, Redington Grange, . 42 Redington Road, London, N.W.3 NORFOLK ... _ The Hon. Pamela Walpole, Tunstead Old House, Tunstead NORTH EASTERN ... A. A. Deane, 34 Westlands,- High Heaton; Newcastle-on-Tyne 7 NORTH WESTERN Mrs. H. T. Halewood, 7 Mendip Rd., Liverpool, 17 .NOITINGHAMSIDRE Mrs. D. M. Hopewell, Crantock, 480 Mansfield ' Road, Nottingham. OXFORD SHIRE Mrs. R. G. Beck, 1 Blenheim Drive, Oxford SOMERSET ... Mrs. R. E. Philipps, 30 Henleaze Park Drive, Henleaze, Bristol SOUTHERN COUNTIES Mrs. W. Davy, Lindsay Manor, Lindsay Road, Boumemouth STAFFORDSIDRE Mrs. D. M. Hallett, 86 Tettenhall Road, Waiver- hampton. SURREy R. F. R. Phillips, 110 Banstead Road South, Sutton . SUSSEX Mrs. F. North, 18 Westboume Villas, Hove WARWICKSHIRE ... H. K. Cooke, 46 Vauxhall Street, Birmingham, 4 · WORCFSTERSHIRE R. D. Allen, 28 Britannia Square, Worcester YORKSHIRE Mrs. A. Cartwright, 146 Soothill Lane, Batley, Yks. 23 .. ' 'I by ALAN TRUSCOTT { : England's second International A good dinner on the list night of the season was staged very. was followed by a good party comfortably in the Cardiff Bridge which ended at 3 a.m., and Jack Club. Both teams included a Nunes w~s able to show a pretty pair of ladies, but as Wales had talent for conjuring. At 7 a.m. on Oil}itted their best-known mascu Monday most of the English line performers the balance of party rose wi~h the lark but experience was heavily on the slightly less joyfully and caught Engli~h side. Teams:- the train for London. This pro vided a splendid opportunity for England: Dr. M. Rockfelt and compiling a crimes catalogue, ~-Nunes; R. A. Priday and A. F. which is more commonly referred ~ Truscott;· Mrs. R. Corwen and to as a chucks ·list. As was to Mrs. R. Oldroyd; and Ewart be expected, it proved easy Kempson, non-playing captain. enough to pin the dunce's cap - Wales: Dr. G. C. Laszlo · and "on the one English player who G. Orlik; N. Gable and C. was travelling by car. A .lot of Samuels;· Mrs. J. S. Spickett .and attention was · devoted to the Mrs. G. Fletcher; and A. ~ames, hands on · which England lost non-playing captain. points, such as th~ following:- In the first -match England led West dealer by 21 at half-time but the Welsh East-West vulnerable · team, fighting hard, then pulled WEST EAST the margin back to single figures. +KQ732 .AJ8 4 They could have snatched a draw The spades br~ke 2-=--2, and perhaps then haye do'ne · less ten tricks were made without . bidding. trouble. But in the other room It is easy to see . that unless' England played in a part-score the diamonds break 3- 2 the after this auction:- contract can almost certainly be defeated at once with a diamond WEST - NORTH EAST SouTH ruff. And if the trumps are 3- 1 No 1\/ Dbl. 2\/ prospects are still poor. The No 2+ 3\/ 3. defenders obviously start by play No No ing t~o rounds of hearts to The prosecution claimed that shorten dummy's trumps. Now both East and West should have declarer has to leave one trump bid the game at their last oppor at large while he sets up the ' tunity. West can judge from the· diamonds and a defender with , bidding that he will find a heart three trumps and a doubleton shortage opposite and that his diamond will pr~bably be able · few pqints are all working. East to get a ruff. can plunge into game, relying on On this basis, the total chance the fact that there seem to be of Four Spades appears to 'be very few losers, although from about 35 per cent. To miss a . his point of view West's spades 35 per cent game can hardly be might be rather weak. a crime, and in the face of this The defence did not deny that evidence the prosecution reluc either player might reasonably tantly withdrew the charges. have bid the game, but took The next case before the court another line altogether. · What prospects of succe.ss has concerned the dummy play of Four Spades got? the following hand:- At first sight, there are simply WEST EAST three Aces to lose, but it is not + AJ • Ql0963 as easy as that' Let us work it \? Q 6 4 '\} K 8 '5 out, ignoring the slight distortion 0 1(753 0 Q9 introduced by knowledge of the + AK43 + Q 107 bidding. It is true that very bad breaks are less likely, because Mrs. Corwen, sitting West, the opponents would probably played in 3NT, no suit having then have done more bidding, been mentioned. The opening·' and very good breaks are a shade lead of the Jack of hearts ':as · less likely because they would won by the Queen, South havmg 25 .· t'ributed the 7. Declarer nc;>w . North dealer ron . . t North-South vulnerable established spades, forcmg ou the King from the South hand. NORTH A diamond lead to North~s Ace • Q 10 6 was followed by the 10 of hearts \? K2 from North. . 0 A J 10 6 5 Should West cover . or not? + K84 What would you do? WEST EAST A8 7 KJ43 The main clue is the 7 of hearts + + \? 10 8 4 \? 9 7 3 which South played on the first 0 KQ984 0 7 3 2 trick. This card, in conjunction • 76 • QJ2 with the play of the diamond to SOUTH '· · give partner the lead, makes it • 9 52 appear that South has the Ace of \? A Q·J 6 5 hearts. If so, the critical holdings for North are:- 0- • A 10 9 53 (a) \?110 (b) \?J109x (c) 1109 tract is Four Hearts and both The most likely of these is .pairs did well to reach i~. T~e (b). As East and West had bid Welsh pair got there vta this no trumps only, there was no sequcnce:- .particular reason for North to SouTH NoRTH lead a short suit. Only in case Mrs. Fletcher Mrs. Spicket! (c) is there an advantage in covering the 10. In the other 10 1 1NT two cases the winning play is to \? duck and on balance this must 2+ 3+ be the right action. 3~ 4\? No . . cl Mrs. Corwen ducked and went Dr. Rockfelt Jed . the King ho down. The Welsh declarer diamonds and Mrs. Fletcher, w d d , covere an made the contract. spent the week-en d nsm· · g above There was thus no justice at the the handicap of a broken arm.j bridge table but Mrs. Corwen gratefully discarded a sp~de a~n left the railway compartment with- made ten comfortable trtck~· htlY out a stain on her dummy play. .the other room, against a slig els Th e court a1 so devoted much dtfferent. auction,. Mr· Samudes valuable time to this lead problem: smartly ied the Ace of spa d (See next column) and continued with a spa e, The only reasonable game con- gaining 6 I.M.P. for Wales. 26 ·Dr. . Rockfelt, conducting his opening leads ' are difficult and own· defence with his usual skill, brought in the old Scottish ver pointed out that the Ace of dict of " Not Proven ". . Which spades lead c~uld be fatal. If leads on to the news tha:t during . South has a singleton spade and the same week -end Scotland a doubleton _diamond, a diamond quietly slaughtered Northern Ire will be discarded on the King of land in Belfast, wi~ning the three spades unless a diamond is led matches by margins of ~5, 48, and originally. 25. The teams were:- This of course is true, but there are two rather subtle indi Scotland: Dr.· R. Y. Forbes cations* which suggest the spade and J. MacLaren; G. D. Jesner lead. North's raise of Two Clubs, and V. Goldberg; H. Fraser and which is presumably an uncon J. A. Stevenson; and D. Skinner, · structive bid, implies that her non-playing captain. high cards fit well with South, Northern Ireland: S. Blaney and spade strength is therefore and B. R. McKinley; D. A. slightly less likely. Slightly Cohen and E. Goldblatt; T. J. stronger is a negative argument: McAfee and W. H. Smyth; and if South has a singleton spade H. S. Diamond, non-playing then East must have a ,6-card captain. suit and might well have shown it over One Diamond at favour In the Camrose series England · able vulnerability. now has twelve league points to In this case the court arrived Scotland's nine, which gives Scot at the startling conclusion that land an outside chance of winning the Trophy when the two teams *I can think of some pretty plain indications, too.-T.R. meet on February 20th and 21st. Letter from Paris by JEAN BESSE The final of the Paris Master Delmouly, Reichenbach, Besse. Championship for teams of four In one of the earlier matches the ended in a narrow victory for the following deal produced the most team of Jais, Trezel, Bourchtoff, curious results:- 27 South dealer . Of course, if our opposites gam'! all I '• I would bid 6NT, they should be NORTH defeated by correct defence of • 6 5 Messrs. Jais and Tn!zel. (West ~3 should either refuse the first spade 0 8765 trick or take it and forthwith . AK Q 842 return a heart to break the WEST EAST squeeze.) • .A J 10 8 7 2 • 9 3 It was therefore not without ~ 9 8 52 . ~ K Q 104 relief that, comparing the scores 0 9 3 0 J 10 4 2 at the end, we noticed 100 in •5 ·• J9 3 Jais's column! "Good defence SOUTH ·against this slam, Pierre! " . • KQ~ · "What slam?" said Jais." ~ AJ76 '~They played in Three NT." 0 AKQ "???" . 107 6 Tllis was the pertinent bidding Playing with Reichenbach, at table 2:- North and South, our bidding · was:- SouTH WEST . NoRTH EAST (Jars) (Trezel) SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST l For the pair Jai:s and Tn~zel Nos. 3 and 4 are the switched has been selected by priority: former partnerships, Th{ ron The two other pairs are to be Desrousseaux and Svarc- Pariente. nominated after very lorig trial matches, as usual here. DUPLICATE BRIDGE BOARDS Strongly made. Quick delivery. A first stage had to select two Size 7• sq. with Metal Edges £6/ 11 /0 per set of32 plus 4/6 postage and registration. pairs out of twelve, resulting in At'lua/ Maker: S. Lawes, 10 Farquhar Road the win of Edgbaston. Birmingham, IS If you ar~ not already an annual subscriber, please make sure that you receive future issues by completing the form below. . Order form To the Publishers, The British Bridge World, Hugh Quekett Ltd., 35 Dover Street, London, W.l. Please enrol.me as a subscriber to The British Bridge World, as from ...... :...... (state month). I enclose annual subscription of 30/-. NAME (in block capitals) ...... :...... I ADDRESS (in block capitals) ...... ~ ...... ·· ·· · · · ··· · · · ··· · · · ·········~ ...... 29 Readers are invited to send letters on all subjects to the Editor, B.B.W., 35 Dover Street, London, W.l Your correspondent Alfred 1961-it ~ould be good to know Dormer discusses (in the January from all contestants whether they issue) the hands from the Senior pre.fer a pairs contest throughout "Trials for the Olympiad both or, as now, first a pairs contest informatively and ·accurately. In for Division II with promotion his preliminary observations he of some pairs into teams in _. is, however, both misinformed Division I. If the latter method and inaccurate. is decided upon, then clearly the \ Misinformed because he accuses pairs emerging from the first stage myself of a lack of sincerity. (This are bound to be restricted in their year the B.B.L. left it to me to choice in forming themselves into arrange the method.) Yet the teams. scheme the B.B.L. adopted this Possibly a pairs contest year was discussed and approved throughout with the seniors by most of the leading bridge coming in at a late- stage would players and journalists who at be best. I would not lightly toss tended a meeting I called at the aside the new " datum " method end of September. Your corre the B_.B.L. adopted this year, but spondent was invited but he we are open to hear other views. omitted to reply to the invitation, GEOFFREY L. BUTLER, and he did not come. Apparently Chairman, B.B.L., London, W.l he did not trouble to find out what was decided. The only point that Dormer made in connection with Truscott's team Inaccurate because he suggests· was that in his choice he was re that Truscott was saddled with stricted to other pairs who had a pair he did not want. This taken part in the ~'Junior Trial" ~eflection on Truscott's partners imd · were ex hypothesi not abso lS u.ncalled for, since he had lutely top rank. I don't think any nommated them as his desired reflection was made on the pair team-mates before the entries closed. actually chosen. Please see tlze Editorial for ~s. for the future-and I am. comment on certain other points tlunkmg ofTorquay in September, raised by your letter. 30 Not for the. first time, Harold only in that in relating the incidimt Franklin's report of an event he gave no names. It was my fa;lt in your last issue is inaccurate. that they were entered incorrectly In his account of the Tollemache In fact, it was Rodrigue who bid Cup heats he says that I made a the 1NT and you who were misled, vulnerable overcall of lNT on . battling· on to 6NT and thence to seven spades to the Q J and little Seven ~pades. else and " effectively t~apped " my pa~tner, Harrison-Gray. Since your · original letter was much more strongly worded than In fact, I :Q:Iade no such overcall the version I have published,.permit and Gray played for a different me to observe that after one's first team. ten years in the bridge racket one ' At first I was disposed to be ceases to worry when one's best indulgent to Fr~nklin as a pro biddings are misinterpreted and vincial reporter describing events misrepresented. Worse is when from hearsay. Then I recalled .a foreign scorer in a championship that he · was (ha-ha) a tean1-mate makes the tiny error of trans of mine for London. posing the names of East and West on the master sheet, with JEREMY FLINT, the result that a whole succession London, S.W.3. of partner's hetises is attributed Franklin's account was deficient to oneself. CLASSlFIED ADVERTISEMENTS 5/- per line. Special terms for a series BRIDGE CLUBS AND HOTELS HARROW · LONDON HARitOW BRIDCiF Ctue-16 Nortbwick Park GRAND SlAM RESIDENTIAL BRIDGE CLUB-21 R cad, Harrow, Middx. 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HIBBERT To defend successfully against and a spade ruffed. When the a squeeze, a player must both Queen. did not come down the understand squeeze technique and only chance was a sque~ze on keep ahead of the game. On this · West which duly materialised first hand, if one defender had when the trumps were played. foreseen the end position he might After he had cashed 0 Q East have saved his partner from being should have realised that South squeezed. h~d nine tricks on top and NORTH threatened to make a tenth by + KJI0752 squeezing West in the black .\(} AJ suits. ·Despite the risk that it 0 KJIO might lose a trick in the suit, he + A6 should have returned a club. WEST EAST The defenders started off well • Q843 + A9 on the next deal, but failed to \(} 6 5 \(} 842 carry the good work to its 0 A873 0 Q94 conclusion. + K72 J9843 + NORTH SOUTH .6 + K74 ~ Q1063 \(} KQI0973 0 652 0 K106 + QI05 + 853 WEST EAST West · led the diamond Ace + AQ 1063 • J5 against Four Hearts, and when ~ K72 ~J East encouraged with the 9 the 0 QJ3 0 98542 suit was continued. Winning in + J2 + A9764 dummy with the King, declarer SOUTH led the Jack of hearts and overtook • 982 to ~ead a spade and finesse the 10. ~ A9854 East won, cashed the diamond 0 A7 Queen and returned a trump + KQIO The King of spades was take~ West led the Jack of clubs 32 ' . ' against Three Hearts and East - r----_:_------.:.._.. · · correctly_ducked. West won the S. A. BRIDGE second round of trumps, led a club to East's Ace for a ruff, and The National Magazine · of South followed with the Ace and Queen Af~ica of spades. There was then no Subscription £1.0.0 per year way for West to avoid a squeeze Sole Agent in Great Britain . NORMAN SQUIRE · in spades and diamonds. 51 Neville Court, Abbey Road, · N.W.8 Playing off the Ace of Spades was a mistake because it rectified the count for declarer. West Lastl~, a hand where the de- should have led the Queen . of fence mtssed two chances, neither- easy·- spades after ruffing a club. On · · NORTH the last trump the position would • 10 8 6.3 have been:- · ~ K62 ... NORTH 0 K85 • 74 • 943 ~- WEST EAST 0 K106 • 19542 .7 ~ 1054 'V QJ98 WEST EAST 0 74 0 1092 + A10 ·-.J + K65 + Ql0872 \/- ~- SOUTH 0 QJ3 0 98_5 • AKQ + 7 'VA 73 SOUTH 0 AQJ63 ·- • 98 + AJ ~9 West led a spade against Six 0 A7 No Trumps, and when East showed out on the second round West must discard the Ace of declarer entered dummy with a spades so· that- if declarer plays a diamond and led a club. The spade East can win and ca·sh a Jack lost to West's King and a club. The defence is not im spade was returned . . When the possible to find, for if East had Ace of clubs had been cashed and held any spade other than th~ the diamonds played tlus was the Jack he would surely have dis final position:- (See next page) carded it. On the last diamo~d the double 33 .I . NORTH I •• ~ J : • • squeeze provided declarer with • 10 his twelfth trick. ~ K6 Both defenders had a chance 0. ·to beat this squeeze. When West .9 was in with +K he should have WEST EAST foreseen the double squeeze and .J led a heart to break up the double ~ 1054 ~ QJ9 entry in that suit. The other, 0- I ·0- more difficult, defence is for East, . Q on the lead of the low club from SOUTH table, to go up with the Queen. ·- Declarer will have to duck, and ~ A73 in the end game West will be able ·0 -6 to guard spades and clubs while ·- East holds the hearts. One Hundred Up · Conducted by AL~ER T DORMER February Co~petition A panel of experts will answer the questions and the marking of the competition will be determined by, though not necessarily in strict proportion to, the votes of the panel. The following prizes are offered for the best sets of answers: FIRST PRIZE Two Guineas. SECOND AND TlllRD PRIZES One Guinea. Please read these rules carefully. No competitor may send in more than ~. ne entry. Only annual subscribers to the B.B.W. are eligible for pnzes. Answers should be sent to One Hundred Up British Bridge \Vorld, 35 Dover Street L d W . ' t ... .u:+ on l\'1 h ' on on, .1, to arnve not later than firs puo· arc 1 Some latitude will be given to overseas competitors· 34 , .. ·. .. Problem No.1 (10 points) Problem No.5 (10 points) 1:M.P. scoring, North-South vul .: R~bber bridge, game all, the bidding nerable, the bidding has gone:- has gone:- SoUTH WEST NORTH EAST SoUTH WEST NORTH EAST No 1~ No No 1~ .Dbl. 3~ · 20 No 2CV' No ? ? South holds:- South holds:- +B3 CV'Q74 0 KQ864 +A52 +AJ8 CV'73 OAK8542 +94 \ North-South are playing the Re- What should South bid? sponsive Double, under which a double in South's position would not be primarily for penalties but would show Problem No.6 (10 points) general strength. · I.M.P. scoring, love all, the biddin~ What should South bid? has gone:- SoUTH WEST NORTH Problem No. 2 (10 points) No No l'V' Match-point pairs, love all, the South holds: bidding has gone:- +A109732 CV' Q63 095 +109 SouTH WEsT NORTH EAST What should South bid? No No I+ 1~ ? South holds:- Problem No. 7 (20 points) +A103 ~A76 0854 +K1042 Game all, the bidding has gone:- What should South bid? SouTH WEST NoRTH EAST 1+ No Problem No. 3 (10 points) 2'V' No 3+ No I.M.P. scoring, North-South vulner- ? able, the bidding has gone:- South holds:- SoUTH WEsT NoRTH EAsT +8 \?KQ964 0J82 +KQ73 10 Dbl. 50 5+ What should South bid?- South holds:- (a) At rubber bridge? +J73 ~852 0AK84 +AK10 (b) At match-point pairs? What should South bid? I Problem No. 4 (20 points) Problem No. 8 (10 points) Match-point pairs, East-West vul nerable, the bidding has gone:.!- Rubber bridge, East-West vulnerable, SouTH WEsT NoRTH EAsT the bidding has gone:- No No 1+ SoUTH WEST NoRTH EAST No - 2~ No No 1+ . No 3'V' ? No 4CV' No 4NT (Blackwood) South holds:- 6'V' +AQJ9 CV'5 0108652 +AKJ No 50 No (a) Do you agree with South's pass No No No to One Spade? State any alternative South holds:- that you consicler preferable. +Q63 'V' A 0982 +1076532 (b) What should South bid now? \Vhich card should South lead? 35 One ·Huridred. Up Conducted by ALBERT DORMER '• I -January Solutions: If you did not enter for the January Competition, try your hand at the problems on page 22 before reading how the experts voted. Answers to the January problems were It does not surprise me that the received from the following eleven , panel, while condemning the opening experts: Mrs. Markus, F. North, T. bid, refuse to endorse the pass to Four Reese, C. Rqdrigue; N. Smart and Diamonds. One has to re-value one's A. Truscott, all of London and the hoidings as the bidding progresses and Home Counties; J. Hochwald, York on this occasion it is clear that South's shire; C. E. Phillips, Cheshire; E. J.' eleven points are fully operational. The Spurway, Warwickshire; P. Swinnerton average minimum opening does not Dyer, Cambridge; and J. Besse, Paris. contain eleven working points, for . some high cards are usually wasted, Problem No. 1 (10 points) so that South's sub-minimum opening Match-point pairs, North-South vul- has turned out to be worth more than nerable, the bidding has gone:- a minimum. And a player who opens Sourn WF.Sr NoRm EAST light must press on in these positions, 10 1\? 1+ 2\? for if he does not rob Peter on the No No 40 No ? lucky hands he will be unable to pay South holds:- . Paul on the unlucky ones. +KJ \?AS 0K9862 +10743 TRuscorr: "Four Spades. North What should South bid? probably has ten or eleven cards in - Answer: Four Spades, 10; Four spades and diamonds, and our high Hearts, 6; Five Diamonds 5· No cards are all working. He can revert Bid, 3. - ' ' to Five Diamonds if he ·wishes, for The panel's vote: 8 for Four Spades our failure to raise spades on the pre 1 .for Four Hearts (Besse), 1 for Fiv~ vious round shows that our support Dmmonds (Reese), 1 for No Bid (Mrs. is limited." Markus). RoDRIGUE: .. Four Spades. Even South's hand would not, of course though I assume that I have made. a ~e Ro~kefeller's idea of a sound open: slip of the tongue in opening the b~d mg bid, even at match-point pairs. ding, and though partner's Four Om~ However a we-ll k .. mends is not forcing, the chances 0 did. ' . nown practitioner open m a recent tournament and game must be fair. He probably has was confronted with this problem. something like: +AQxxx OAxxX·" He dropped. the bidding like a hot Joe Hochwald and John Spunvar, potato, claiming he had opened light (who will alternate with brother pau and that Fou . r n·mmonds was not make their 100 Up debut in the forcmg, but it came out that ga · me was majority camp:- easy m spades or diamonds. SPURWAY: ,, Four Spades. south's 36 s"an unsound opening but the bidding a 100 per cent forcing bid I shall has improved the hand and it must be certainly not bid again. If we · miss a reasonable to go game. Partner ca~ game I shall blame it on the expert who hardly expect the spade support to be forced me to open this miserable - better than 'KJ, so that if he has no ~ holding." great length in the suit he will return Yes, but it is no use just sitting and to diamonds." thinking bitter thoughts. Reese prefers Five Diamonds on the 'I ground that the hand will produce at Problem No. 2 (10 points) least one more trick in that suit. Un Rubber bridge, love all, the bidding doubtedly there are hands 'Where partner has gone:- . would pass Four Spades and where SoUTH · WEST NoRTH EAST that contract would be inferior to Five No Diamonds. For example: + Axxxx 1. 1NT 2NT No _ C:Vxx OQJxx . Ax. ? Reese also makes the sound point South holds:- that to score game in any denomination + QJ4 Diamonds are worth considering. But In these hard times players are more 1 Four Hearts has the advantage of rapacious, and if North had the bal allowing partner to ·bid Four Spades, anced eleven-count that is usually in which case we may pass in the associated with a 2NT response he knowledge that we have a sufficient would double West's overcall. His trump holding, whereas if we bid Four actual bid can logically be construed Spades directly we would not be so as a forcing call based on a different secure. sort of hand, but the panel do not con " I go even so far as to suggest a sider that further inferences can be slam, should North hold: + Axxxxx drawn at this stage. 'Vx 0 Axxxx . x. And that is by no REESE : " Three Clubs. The situation means an over-estimation." is not fully charted but one must Mrs. Markus will have no truck with assume partner to have a " funny " such enterprises. hand. Having no other four-card suit, MRs. MARKUS: " No Bid. Anyone one can only rebid clubs." Who opens on this hand deserves a NoRTH: "Three Clubs: An ,unusual .bad result, but as partner has not made sequence. No doubt partner has an 37 interesting shape, and we can O.QlY +AKJ \7KQ1074 09 +KJ98 await further developments." What should South bid? SMART: "Three Clubs. In my club Answer: Two Hearts, 10; Two Dia the most plausible explanation of this monds or Two Spades, 4. ' sequence would be that partner failed The panel's vote: 9 for Two Hearts, to hear the 1NT overcall. If that 1 for Two Diamonds (Mrs. Markus), possibility is to be disr~garded one 1 for Two Spades (Hochwald). can only bid Thiee Clubs and wait Though North has failed to give a _ to hear what partner's suits are. He jump respqnse-a bid that can be made c1eady won't pass Three Clubs." on modest values in this position Having established an ascendancy on South must make a further attempt to the first problem Besse can _afford to spark him into life. He could yet hold play this one safe. the two black Queens and those cards, BESSE: "Three Clubs. I don't know coupled with length in the right places, -this partner. So I better give him would give a play for game. another chance." Two Hearts is a well judged effort Mrs. Markus, Phillips and Spurway, that demands imaginative co-operation who support other calls, also confess from partner. themselves somewhat baffied by the PHILLIPS: "Two Hearts. Partner tum of events, and it is left to P. will interpret this vulnerable. advance Swinnerton-Dyer to cast a kindly light to a new suit at the Two level as show amid the encircling gloom. (Any ing distinctly more than a minimum r~semblance between his answer and double. We need a volunteered effort the majority vote is purely coincidental). from him before we can think of bidding SwJNNERTON-DYER: "Three Clubs. .game." The obvious meaning of this' sequence NORTH: " Two Hearts. If partner is that North has a balanced 11 count. dislike hearts and has length in spades He did not want to double 1NT be he will rebid them for we ·have already cause that would' merely enable West promised at least ;olerance for the suit. to show his suit and indicate the best We must try to avoid dummy having to lead. This implies that North's clubs ruff diamonds with top spades, unless are too good for him to wish to double partner's trumps .are long enough to West in the suit he runs to. Hence it sustain that." d is the policy of safety to return to · REESE: " Two Hearts. The han Three ·Clubs, although if the auction should not be over-valued until spades had been uncontested we would have are rebid, for against a diamond l~d passed 2NT." it would play poorly in spades opposite Problem No. 3 (10 points) +10xxx." Mrs Markus' and Hochwald's selec· I.M.P. scoring, North-South vul tions are· by no means bad b1ds,· but nerable, the bidding has gone:- appeal less than Two Hearts. 1 SoUTH WEST NoRTH EAsT MRs. MARKUS: " Two Diamonds. No No 10 . . b'ld for I DbI. do not cons1der th1s an over ' d ~o 1+ No ? did not force to game on the first rou:ak South holds:- Although partner may be very w rts there is still a chance of game in hea · 38 .or spades, and I can dr<;>P the bidding - could have made nine or ten tricks in if I ·cannot excite No~th." spades, but few would criticise the HocHWALD: "Two Spades. With pass at I.M.P. scoring. At match-point only one Ace I don't dare to bid more pairs, however, there is a definite man strongly. Partner is likely to have date for action; thus a pair who in the difficulty in getting into his hand." Trial played a pairs game rather than a team 'game would, presumably, come out better on a pairs analysis than our Problem No. 4 (20 points) hero, whose tactics may have been North-South game, the bidding has perfectly correct having regard to the gone: state of his match. · Sourn WEST NoRTH EAST Anyway, here are· the panel's No No 1+ 2(\.J comments. 2+ 3(\.J No No , SWINNERTON-DYER: "Double. If : ? partner has opened light, any action South holds:- but Pass may yield a bad result; but + A3 (\}852 OJ9642 + A42 we cannot afford to take that view. What should South bid:- We have good defensive values and it is (a) At match-point pairs? likely that each opponent is counting (b) At rubber bridge? on the other to be short in spades. Answer to (a): Double, 10; No Bid, " If partner feels inclined to take out, 4; Three Spades, 3. having more shape than points, we Tire panel's vote: 8 for Double, 2 for could well make Three Spades and are No Bid (Mrs. Markus, Besse), 1 for unlikely to be doubled. Moreover,. we Three Spades (Hochwald). cannot expect to get rich by defending This deal· came up in the B.B.L. Three Hearts undoubted, whether they team trial, which is supposed to be make it or not." decided by I.M.P.s a~d victory points. . PHILLIPS: " Double. A co-operative According to a post facto statement, double, for our values are limited by however, regard may be had to some the original single raise." kind of pairs analysis in selecting the REESE: " Double. Must be done, for third pair for Turin. prospects are good and the result is In my opinion an arithmetical analysis anyway bad if Three Hearts is made." , of pairs results in match-play is of BESsE: "No Bid. An automatic pass little value for a number of reasons at rubber bridge can still be a pass at which should be obvious to experienced the match-point game." players and selectors. Incidentally, the HocHWALo : ."Three Spades. Un: reference to such ·an analysis in the likely to be doubled, so at worst 'Yill final paragraph of last month's report cost 100 as against 140 in Three Hearts." on the Trial was not mine; I can only assume that it was inadvertently carried ' Answer to (b) : No Bid, 10; Double, 3. over from the "Tournament World" The panel's vote: 10 for No Bid, feature or from the Editorial. 1 for Double (Swinnerton-Dyer). The hand above was held in the Trial by a redoubtable player who chose to As· Reese and Swinnerton-Dyer re pass Three Hearts. This went two marked above, one of the factors, that down undoubted while North-South supports the double at match-poi~t 39 pairs is the thought that at oth~r tables The o.bv~ous ~ompetitive call ~s _Dou.ble, East-West may not enter the bidding. 1 but that has a defect: it might make If that proves so South would lose little North declarer in a black suit, and . by doubling the opponents out, but he then the defenders would put the skids would gain heavily if he could exact a under ~K at trick one. penalty. · That King was probably born for the That consideration does not apply sacrifice, but at least if South plays the in rubber bridge, where the decision hand West will be put to the trouble is guided by simple odds. Reese esti of finding a lead that will not give a mates that to double at rubber bridge trick away. a player needs a 7 to 1 on probability RoDRIGUE: " Two Spades. A good of defeating Three Hearts (though of hand that I am prepared to mistrust. course partner may still take out). In theory a double is best, but with ·Only the intrepid Swinnerton-Dyer is partner playing the· hand my ~K is · prepared to lay those odds. worthless. SwiNNERTON-DYER: " Double. This " Two Spades forgoes only the seems closer, in that to pass can no possibility of playing- in clubs, for if longer be disastrous. At the same partr.er_were going to put me back to time, the really stinging penalties that diamonds over a double he can still sometimes occur on this sequence will do so." now be of more value. Moreover, it Spurway puts the technical viewpoint, is not suc}l a disaster if they make it, but this seems an occasion for departure for a part-score of 90 is already valuable at this vulnerability. One final point: from book methods. at least it is not likely that the double SPURWAY: "Double. The alter- will cost tricks by disclosing the position . native bid of Two Spades does not of high cards." attract, for it gives the impression of a more unbalanced hand. By doubling Problem No. 5 (10 points) South shows a high point count with .· ~ Rubber bridge, love all, the bidding no especially long suits." has gone:- SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST Problem No. 6 (1 0 points) 10 2~ No No I.M.P. scoring, love all, the bidding ? has gone:- South holds:- SOUTH WEST NoRTH EAST +QJ74 ~K3 0AKQ6 +KJ6 1+ No 1~ 1+ What should South bid? . No 2NT 40 No Answer: Two Spades, 10; Double, 8; . ? Two No Trumps, 2. South holds:- The panel's vote: 5 for Two Spades •AJ43 ~5 0 K9 +A97432 (Mrs. Markus, North, Reese Rodrigu~ What should South bid? S~a~t), 5 for Double mochwald' 'd 1' Ph1lhps Sp S . ' Answer: Four Hearts, 10; No B• , ' T ' urway, wmnerton-Dyer Five Diamonds 5 • Four No Trumps, 3• ruscott), 1 for Two N T ' ' ' H fBesse). o rumps The panel's vote: 4 for Four ea rts (North, Phillips, Reese, Smart), 4 for give ground before West's sabre · ncr T~ No Bid (Mrs. Markus, Beese, SWID • rattling Two Hearts . would be supine. ton-Dyer, Truscott), 2 for Five D•a- 40 / monds (i.Iochwald, Spurway),' 1 for I neces~arily be based on an ultra-freakish Four No Trumps (Rodrigue). , - two-suiter. This should play as well I In actual play South passed and in hearts as in diamonds espeCially as, game was missed. Discussion centred after a raise to Five Diamond~ , a trump on the correctness _of South's second lead would certainly be forthcoming ~" round pass and his proper action on the third round. Only Mrs. Markus Problem No. 7 (20 points) takes serious exception to the pass to I.M.P. scoring, North-South vul One Spade. nerable, the bidding has gone:- MRS. MARKUS: " No Bid. 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T. NAYLOR, G. K. RussELL, ' . 4 ~-E~RYWEA~HER, J. H. MERZ, 76; E. c. ~APEY, T. KROOK, MRS. T. SIMONS, ~T: · JAcKSoN, 73; J. K. PATES, H. G. RHODES L. G. Wooo, 72; fLT· ISAACSON DR c L p . ' D VIES 70. . ' · · · orrs, MRS. J. E. SuMNER, R. w. TARRANT, 11 ;·o. I. A ' 44 ,· .. E~B.U. Results · CROCKFORD'S CUP-Round ll IMP Mrs. C. B. Campbell (Yorks) beat D. V. Jones (Warwicks.) 11 · Mrs. R. B. Campfield (Yorks.) , E. Foster (Warwicks.) 14 N. Neville (London) , M. Harrison-Gray (London) 4 J. Nunes (London) , A. Pescott-Day (Surrey) 34 G. G. Endicott (NWCBA) M. A. Porter (Warwicks.) 2 Dr. Shee (London) G. B. Burrows (Essex) 67 Mrs. J. M. Harper (Surrey) Dr. J. Henneman (Southern Counties) 18_ F. Farrington (NWCBA) , R. Hardy (Warwicks.) 14 E. Leader Williams (Surrey) , F. North (Sussex) 10 A. V. Myerhoff (Yorks.) J. Brown (Lines.) 15 A. G. Jeffery (London) , C. G. Ainger (Surrey) 22 G. W. Sutcliffe (NWCBA) , J. Hammond (Notts.) 45 R. Dorsey (Yorks.) , E. White (Derby) ' 14 W. E. D. Hall (Warwicks) , N. Silverbeck (NWCBA) 11 R. A. Priday (London) , Mrs. H. Rye (London) 20 Dr. Bown (Glos.) , R. C. C. Gyles (Somerset) 19 R. Preston (London) M. F. Saunders (London) 10 Pts. after a tie · L. Alt (London) , Mrs. A.M. Hiron (London) 14 L.A. Donee (Warwicks) , G. P. Littler (NWCBA) 15 N. F. Choulart~n (NWCBA) , J. R. Plummer (Warwicks) 51 H. St. J. Ingram (London) , D. G. C. Thornley (Herts.) 58 GOLD CUP Round 1 (Completed) IMP J. G. E. Faulkner (Essex) beat Mrs. D. S. Kastell (Middlesex) 3 M.A. Porter (Warwicks) R. C. C. Gyles (Somerset) 40 J. E. Taylor (Herts) , G. J. Westlake (Herts) 19 M. Harrison-Gray (London) E. W. Crowhurst(Berks &Bucks)77 G. F. Mathieson (London) , A. G. Jeffery (London) 22 I. Manning (Yorks.) , D. Gordon Smith (Staffs & Glos.)41 W. Kember (Kent) , J. Taylor (Surrey) 19 R. F. Price (Middlesex) , J. Borin (London 31 A. T. Cunliffe (London) , J. Sargeant (Kent) 7 R. A. Priday (London) , B. V. Byron (Herts.) 33 N. F. Choularton (NWCBA) WO G. I. 'Rhodes (NEBA) Scr. G. H. F. Broad (Leics.) beat M. Blank (NWCBA) 2 L. Tarlo (London) ,, A. E. Ranwell (Herts.) 76 J. Brown (Lines.) , N. E. Southern (NWCBA) 60 45 \ .. Mrs. D. M. Hopewell (Notts.) , N. Silverbeck (NWCBA) 2 D. H. Simmonds (London) , D. J. Carpenter (Herts). 37 R. Vincent (Yor~.} E. Foster (Warwicks.) " 15 . A. V. Myerhoff (Yorks.) , E. White (Derby) 3 E. Burston (Derby) wo Dr. M.S. Laurie (Yorks.) Scr. I. S. Weiss (London) beat G. L. Butler (London) 11 J.D. Collings (London) , C. G. Ainger (Surrey) . 22 A. T. M. Jones (Somerset) wo J. Hammond (Notts.) Scr. C. E. Robinson (Staffs.) beat Dr. J. B. Fulton (Yorks). 17 M. F. Saunders (London) , Mrs. J. Johnstone (Mddlx.) 42 J. E. Gordon (NWCBA) · , J. N. Colley (Yorks.) 18 G. W. Sutcliffe (NWCBA) , J. T. Naylor (Derby) 12 C. B. Landau (London) , H. 0. Worger (Surrey) 41 B. Hinton (NWCBA) , S. Vincent (Lines.) 7 N. Neville (London) , A. M. Hiron (London) 1 HUBERT PHILLIPS BOWL Round IT Points E. F. Briscoe (Warwicks.) beat R. Vincent (Yorks.) 570 G. P. Hirst (Yorks.) , W. N. Morgan Brown (Glos. & Staffs.) 190 Mrs. A. L. Della Porta (London) , J. Marsha.ll (London & Glos.) 1010 H. Brooke (Yorks.) , E. A. Madenski (Staffs.) 1780 Mrs. P.M. Williams (London) Mrs. Hiron (London) 1600 .P. Juan (London) , I. S. Weiss (London) 1210 d. C. H. Fox (London) Mrs. P. Manewell (London) 130 Mrs. F. Gordon (London) , w. G. v. Kember (Kent) 2510 J. R .. L. Thompson (Notts.) WO Mrs. E. Moore (Yorks.) Scr. G. G. Endicott (NWCBA) beat E. Burston (Derby) lOOO Mrs. M. T. Lees (NWCBA) , C. H. Dodson (Warwicks.) 4780 Mrs. P. Forbes (London) A. Rose (London) 480 · M. A. Porter (Warwicks.) , Mrs. Farrington (NWCBA) 930 W. E. D. Hall (Warwicks.) E L F' . (NWCBA) 2250 , • • IggiS 480 Mrs. J. C. Bowler (Yorks.) J. Brown (Lines.) S F. Keyte (Devon) " · cr. L S WO I. Bowden (Oxon) · ummers (Sussex) beat G. J. Westlake (Herts.) . ,1610 J. H. Taylor (Yorks.) Mrs. D. D. Shanks (Warwtcks.) 23320 Mrs. J. Gatti (London) , Mrs. v. Cooper (London) 20 CdROYDON CONGRESS. The team-of-four event was won by K. W. Konstantd <.m Mrs. P · Forbes, D r. s · Lee and S. Booker · the patrs. by A. F. T rus cott an E · Leader-Williams. ' G DAJ~Y TELEGRAPH CUP. Middlesex A (Miss D. Shanahan, M. Harrison 1 r;y, · · Flint and R. and J. Sharples) won with plus 80 IMP. nd econh~ were Surrey A (E. Leader-Williams Dr R Y Forbes, R. A. priday a G at te ) · h • · · · h · M son Wtt plus 49. Middlesex B were third and Surrey B fourt · 46 . ' / E.B.ll. _Master Points Register Master Points Secretary: F. 0. Bingham,-48 Lordship Park, London, N.16 PROMOTIONS To Life Master: Life Master certificates Nos. 4 and 5 go to M. Harrison-Gray and J. Nunes. "H.-G." is thus the first of those elected to honorary Life Master- · ship in 1956 to attain the title on current form. To National Master: Mrs. A. M. Hiron (London); I. Manning (Yorks.); A. Finlay (Yorks.) To Master: Mrs. D. V. Phillips (Somerset); T. Fleming (North-Eastern); L. A. Douce (Warwickshire). LEADING SCORES '· Life Masters: R. Sharples (345); J. Sharples (344); Mrs. F. Gordon (329); M. HarriSOJ:?.-Gray (314); J. Nunes (303). Honorary Life Masters: B. Schapiro (261); L. Tarlo (190); J. T. Reese (175); K. Konstam (133); N. Gardener (122); L. ·w. Dodds (91); A. Meredith (30). National Masters: A. Rose (299); B. H. Franks (298); J. Lazarus (291); P. F. · Spurway (274); E. J. Spurway (271); Miss D. Shanahan (263); D. C. Rimington (248); C. Rodrigue (247); S. Booker (245); Mrs. A. L. Fleming (236); M. Rockfelt {223); J. Hochwald (214); F. Farrington ·(213); S. Lee (209); I. Manning (199); R. Swimer (199); C. Vickerman (196); I.. M. Morris (194); J. Flint (188); M. Wolach {182); A. Finlay (175); A. F. Truscott (174); S. Blaser (167); N. S. L. Smart (165); Mrs. A.M. Biron (154). The RIXI MARKUS CUP (Women's Individual Championship) is the first national event in which the right to compete will be decided on Master Points status. All women members of E.B.U. of the rank of MASTER (50 m.p.) and higher are assured of an invitation. The following have qualified to date:- · Gloucestershire: Mrs. Russell Jessop. Hertfordshire: Mrs. G. Durran. Kent: Mrs. A. L. Fleming; Mrs. D. Shammon; Mrs. H. W. Haycocks; Mrs. T. L. Hunter; Mrs. D. M. Brett. London: Mrs. F. Gordon; Mrs. V. Cooper; Mrs. R. Markus; Mrs. A.M. Hiron; Mrs. M. Whitaker; Lady Rhodes; Mrs. E. Kaplan; Mrs. H. Rye; Mrs. B. Gordon;-Mrs. A. Dellaporta; Mrs.A.J.Garratt. Middlesex: Miss D. Shanahan; Mrs. E. Davis. North-Western: Mrs. G. E. Higginson; Mrs. W. W. L. Fearn; Mrs. 0. Topping. North-Eastern: Mrs. H. Esther. Notts.: Mrs. D. M. Hopewell. Staffs.: Mrs. D. Hallett; Mrs. P. Hartill. 47 .. ""· j - ,,. . •\ ~ '' Surrey: Mrs. J. 'Evins; Mrs. J. 'Harper; Mrs. M. ~dwards; Mrs. T. Symons; Mrs. 0. Goodall. Sussex: Mrs. E. Harrison. Somerset: Mrs. S. W. Thomas; Dr. Bown; Mrs. Morley-Burry; Mrs. D. v. Phillips. \Van,·ickshire: Mrs. W. E. D. Hall; Mrs. A. E. Brookes; Mrs. M. Davies; Mrs. E. Dixon-Green. Yorks.: Mrs. R. Corwen; Mrs. R. Oldroyd; Mrs. E. Dick, Mrs. M. Frith. O.iary of EVents 1960 Feb. 19-21 INTERNATIONAL TRIAL (SECOND HALF) Ro-dney Hotel 20-21 CAMROSE MATCH V. SCOTLAND Away 20-21 BRITISH UNIVERSITIES CONGRESS Imperial College, London 27-28 THE' FIELD TROPHY ... DeVere Hotel 27-28 BRIDGE FORUM Imperial Hotel, Blackpool . Mar. , 4-7 E.B.U. SPRING CoNGRESs ...... Eastbourne 12-13 NATIONAL PAIRS-MIDLAND FINAL Droitwich -SouTHERN FINAL DeVere, Rodney 17-20 DEVON CONGRESS ...... Palace, Torquay 19-20 NATIONAL PAIRS-NORTHERN FINAL... Majestic, Harrogatd 26-27 PORTLAND CUP FINAL...... Majestic, Harrogate an Grand, Eastbourne April 1-3 CUMBERLAND CONGRESS . . . . . , . . . Keswick 7 CHARITY CHALLENGE CUP (SIMULTANEOUS PAIRS) passim 9-10 CROCKFORD's CUP FINAL ... London 9-11 GRAND Pmx DE MoNTE CARLO Monte Carlo . 16-17 EASTER 23 WORLD OLYMPIAD STARTS ... Turin April25 to May 1 NORTH WALES CONGRESS .. . Llandudno May . 1 ANNE REESE CuP FINAL .. . Ken ~Pal. Hotel 6-8 LoNDON CONGRESS •. . , , . Empire R<;~oms 4-10 (approx) INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT Juan-Les-Pms 7-8 PACHADO CUP Grand, Le!cester 14-15 NATIONAL PAIRS FIN;\~ •. . Grand, Leicester 20-22 N.W.C.B.A. CoNGRESS Grand, h ter Mane es 28-29 INTERNATIONAL PAIRS TOURNAMENT Vichy June 3-6 GOLD CuP FINAL . London 11-12 YORKSHIRE CONGRES~ .. Royal, Scarborough 1 11- 12 RICHARD LEDERER MEMORIAL CUP Ken. Pal. Hote Full particulars from: SecretarY-Mrs. A. L. FLEMING 12 Frant Road, Tunbridg~ 'Veils, Kent 48