closed band regained with the Better Bridge ace of clubs to score the queen of diamonds. By ROBERT D. dummy with the jack and Declarer had executed a ROSENBLUM drew trumps. When East crisscross squeeze after forc Copley News Service turned up with three hearts ing West to commit himself. South gave up the idea of try West could have destroyed Jan Wohlin of Stockholm ing to ruff his queeri of dia this at trick four by shifting to provides International monds in dummy. Certainly a club rather than a diamond, Bridge Press Association East, in the bidding, could not knocking out declarer's members with bridge hands hold three diamonds. entry, but it would have for unrestricted use. After a Declarer ran all his availed him naught. lapse of several months four trumps. Now, many players South would still run puzzlers appeared in the Jan treat trumps as a security trumps and reach this five uary IBPA Bulletin. Here is blanket. They fear releasing card ending: one: control in the form of their last trump. Yet it is this card North s - S 6 32 that often exerts the pressure H D AJ H 532 that cracks the defense. South had no such fear. Here C Q86 D AJ C Q8643 is the positionat the moment he cashed the eight of hearts, s - S 5 West East H H S 98 S AK754 s - D Kl09 D 4 H 6 H 974 H C K 10 C 952 D K 10 9 8 7 6 2 D 4 D A J C Q86 s C K 107 C 9 5 2 H 108 s - D Q53 South s - C S QJ 10 H H H AKQJ108 D KlO D D Q53 C KlO C J952 Now West is caught a trick C A earlier when South leads the s ten of hearts. If he parts with Dealer - West. North-South H 8 a diamond declarer finesses wlnerable. D Q5 the jack of diamonds, cashes C A the ace and ruffs a club to West North East South reach the good queen of dia 3 D Pass Pass 4 H West bad no safe discard. If monds. All Pass be let go a club declarer Letting go a club instead would cash the ace, enter enables South to set up Having preempted in dia dummy with the ace of dia dummy's queen by ruffing · monds West chose a spade monds and claim the queen of after a successful diamond lead againstfour hearts. East clubs as his tenth trick. finesse. took the first two tricks and Throwing a diamond would Either way - crisscross gave him a ruff. Declarer not help. Now the ace of dia squeeze or trump squeeze - won a diamond return in monds is cashed first and the West is helpless.
Mar. 2, 1978 Better Bridge