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••••••EDITORI L 2 3 E. D- L 10 0 At a meetin of the Council on 12th Jul were eJected to the Selection Comm1ttee : G. G. Endacott, M. J. Flint, E. C. Miln , W. J. P ncbarz, R. A. Prida , H. Scull , P. F. purwa . T OT Despite man rem nders there are till tho e member who addr bu ine correspondence to the pr• ate ddre of Dr. and Mrs. Sta ele and bo name one of them a the payee when tthn E.B.U. accounts b cheque. Smce the Stavele are leaving the di trict in the near future, it i unlike) that any corre pondence addressed to their private addre will reach the E.B.U., while cheque made payable to them will be unca hable. Plea note that all E.B.U. corre pondence (except on Law and Ethics and Teachers' A sociation matter ) should be addressed to the E.B.U. o11ices at lSB Hlah tn t. THAM , 0 on and that all cheques hould be made payable to the Enall h Brldae UnJon. TOU R ME T DIRECTOR ' R On October 7th- th, 1978 the Engli h Bridge Union propo to run a wee - end seminar for tho who may be inter ted in tournament direction at County and/or tiona! level. This will be run at the Grand Hotel, Birmingham, under the direction of the Union's Chief Toum ment Director, Harold Franklin. Information on the programme of in truction and details of fee and hotel charges can be obtained from the E. B.U., 158 High Street, Thame, 0 on. It would be helpful if those wishing to attend would give details of their exper­ ience when ma in their application and, if po ible. provide some evidence of endor ment by their Count Association. The course fee will be £5 .00. Hotel £6.50 per d y room and breakf

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Mike Swanson, who takes over from Anne Sta eley a E.B.U. · tant Secretary, wa born an London in 1951. He read Mathematics and Computer Science at Liverpool Univer ity where he took up competitive bridge, playing hi first repr ntati e match in 1970 and becoming the Univer tty Bridge Club Secretary for 1971-72. It was at the University Bridge Club that he met his wife Maureen, now a doctor in general practice and a keen bridge player. So great was Maureen's enthu ia m for the game that e followed Mtke a University Bridge Club Secretary. For the last four years Mike has been an Executive Officer in the Civil Service. For mo of this time he bas been in the Employment Service workin a an employment dviser in Liverpool Jobcentre, peciali ing in the hotel and catering industry. Since 1976 he has been actively involved in bridge dministration at both local and county level. He has been an area delegate to the .W.C.B.A. d also a member of the .W.C.B.A. Tournament Committee. Hew a member of the board of directors of Liverpool Bridge Club and wa also Chairman of tbe Club Tournament Committee. In addition both he and Maureen were joint cretaries of the erse · 'de Bridge League and Maureen was the Merseyside Area secretary to the .w.c.B.A. Mike's current rank is National Ma ter and most of his " green " points ha e come in the last two seasons when he ha performed creditabl in ational events.

PPE LS OMMITTEE An Appeals Committee recent! con idered an appeal from E.B.U. Laws and Ethics Committee relating to a hand in a multi-team event in ich the decl rer played the band in a contract of 3 T doubled a a mi re and conceded a penalty of 1700 (9 down) when the defenders could not po ib h eta en an more than the first five tricks if the d clarer bad not di rded h · bigh rd winners.

mon In this particular appeal th ppeal Committee took into ccount mlf tin circumstances and d cided th t the member con m ould be L. TARLO, nnan. 5 P Y HI BIDDl H arold frankUn (B courtes of the )

The p chic b.d 1 a perfectly le itimate plo which add a p1ce of excitement for the adventurou I minded, which on occasion can create an element of urprise with dramatic effect. " urprise " is the effective word. All too often the victim i not t' tied that the " urpri •· is as eneral a the Laws require. Perhap a few definitions and illustration can help to iJJuminate me gre area . Law 40, under the heading Partner h ip Understandings, states : "A player rna make any call or play (including an intentionally misleading call uch as a 'p chic bid ', or a call or ploy that departs from commonly accepted or previou ly announced conventional practice) without prior announcement, provided that it i not based on a partner hip understanding." At fir t glance the Law would appear to permit too much latitude. A partner· ship agreement, dul tout on the convention card, may provide for a no- 12-14 in all po ition In practice the player may find it expedient to be minimum (or even sub-m lnimum) at favourable vulnerability, maximum at adverse vulnerability. Given that partner ha the minimum values for a border­ J:ne rai to two no-trump on the basi of a 12-14 no-trump, it would not be unnatural if hi deci ion were influenced by the vulnerability condition. And what of the opponent who mu t decide whether to compete 7 He urely should know whether at one moment 12-14 i likely to mean 11 or 12 and at another 13 or 14. The Law provide for thi situation in the Proprieties under IV : " Partnership Agreements" which, after reiterating Law 40, goes on to say" it is not improper for a player to violate an announced partnership agreement so long his partner i unaware of the violation (but h bitual violation within a partnership rna create implicit agreements, which mu t be di closed)." And there is the rub : what are habitual violation 7 On whom is the burden of proof 7 Because the American League is so much Jaraer than our own national body, the problem is proportionately larger for them than for u . Don Oakie, a past Pre ident of the A C.B.L and an international pia er sought to explain the League's po ition in an article from which tbe followin extract h been circulated to E.B.U. tournament directors. P ychic bid are not soon forgotten b_ the user's partner. Since such a bid doe gro ly mi ·state either the strength or pattern of the band, or both, the re ult obtained tend to be memorable where the partner i concerned. In this re pect the p ychic bid ha the same effect a does an e traordinaril_ ood gue by partner, either a declarer or defender, a particular! spectacular line of play or defence, or a sensationall ucce ful, unilateral e b partner. But where the gue es, lines of play, and sa e are remembered a special case • the psychic calls tend to becomt identifi d with the bidding tuatlon in which the were used. When partner ha p ched on e, for man · to come every tim a imilar ituation ari , hi p rtner will remember and wonder. • The partn r who remembers and wonders is pt to te t t.be water before be tak the plunge of an irreversibl action predicated upon his partner's call. A pia er wbo thus display caution may not be de med to be limply prudent. Hi caution terns from prior know! dge and e p ri nee with this partner and thu constitutes prima facie evidenc that n imphcit partn rship undentaDdina elti t • This caut on n er quit a pronounced it 1 in the de I that immediate! follow the one wher p rtn r p ched. According!~. whil a pla er's first ~chic bid with a n w p rtner i jud ed to be legal a I r the Lea ue r ulatioas re n emed, a nd p ·chic call b · the me pia er durans the same nat, e en in a r di II diff r nt b:ddins ituati n i jud ed to ablilb a .-ttem or p ·chic b!ddin that rna · well cr te n impli it partnership underst•ndina ince impli It p rtnership understandinp re available to both members of p rtnership, n further p ) hie biddin h• either member, in the same eveat,

7 The cond, from the 1977 European Championlhipa in Elsiaore fooJed a top cl pla er and took DO rialt in the PfOII'eiL 10 3 ~A K J 10 4 3 w t <> Q9 6542 763 J ~9 ~ s 2 0 A 10 7 6 4 3 at 01852 . 10 AKQ97 . KJ9842 ~ Q 876 O K . AQS utb w t ortb M Olter 1 C1 20 2H so SH 6 Cl (I) 0 0 Obi. 60 Obi . 0 0 0 An agile mind and an ability to draw inteiJi ent conclusions w re the baH­ mar s of both the succ ful . B contra t, in a recent international match one pair, playmg a Do-trump dvertised as 12-14, opened one no-trump eleven tim . On seven occasions the no-trump was of 10 or 11 point , on three occa ions 12, and on one 13- de pite th' frequent variation no advantage wa apparent. What bo ever would have been the inclination of p rtner with a balanced 11 points, a borderline rai to two no-trumps over 12-14 no-trump 7 And w re the opponents expected to comp te again t the advertised 12-14 or the effecti e 10-12 7 Brid e i a mental exercise. The real plea ure is in matchin your sJtills a in t a worthy opponent, under fair condition . That is why partnership agr ements or understandings, explicit or implicit, should be known to both ides. And that is why psychic bids hould not have an element of impliCJt understanding, either a con iou one, or the unconscious one which is a con­ quence of an h bitual practice.

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Doubl Top 1 the new Rothman CompetJtion t b Terence Re • In e ch of the next · ue a set of qu tion will be a ked. with a maximum of 40 point (double top on the dart board) to be won. The first competition in the rie will be found on p e 37. Thi specimen t, consi tin of five qu tion , i " for amu ement onl ". Although th example are drawn from other bnd publication , tbi will not be normal practic in the competition proper, where, amon others, interestin& hands from the current Rothman tournaments ill be u Members are invited to ubmit problems from any of the Rothrrum event to the Editor, and such as are used will be properly ac nowled ed. Readers are invited to consider the problem . then tum to Terence Ree • answers on pa e 13. 1. IMPs. Game all. Soatla Wet orth lS 0 No 2H 2$ 1 South holds : . A7 3 0 84 OK6S42 . AQ3 Which of the following calls do you con ider best 7 ( ame one onh·.) (a) Double (b) 2 T (c) 3D (d) :m (e) 3S (f) H. ( ot many questions will have so many po ible an wer , but all the abo e had supporters when the problem was set in the American " Br d e orld.") 2. IMPs. Love all. So ... Wet ortb lH 2 T 0 7 orth's 2NT, accordin& to the system, i " unu ual ", denotin len h in the minors. South holds : K 10 7 6 3 2 \) 9753 0 6 2

Whlc:b of• the• foJJowin& calls do ou con 'der t 7 (a) P (b) 3C (c) 30 (d) S J. Pairs. ortiJ 0 2H o Double 0 7 South laolda : Q963 010 0 A J 10 S 2 Q9 Whlc:b of the foUowin calls do you conaider 7 (a) Pal (b) 4 (c) SD 11 4. IMP' . -S vulnerable. utb Wt ort JH 20 Double c 0 0 1 The doubl of 20 • for penaltie not sputnik. South hold + KJ742 0 10 .0 KQ, s 10 4 Which of the followin call do ou con ider best 1 ( ) P (b) Double (c) 3D (d) JH (e JS

5. Wt ortb 2H JC 0 0 No Double 0 0 We t leads the Jack of heart and thi dummy goes down : + K J 10 5 0 74 0 JIO . Q9862 0 I led + 85 2 O KQ 0 K9 5 . AKJ4 In bidding JNT and standing the double, South ba been bold. The hand tarts fairly well when H J is led, East wins with the Ace and returns a heart. What line of play do ou now consider be t 1 ( ) Play off some club , then run 0 J from dumm . (b) Lead a spade to the Kin and if it holds, a i likely. run 0 J. (c) Plan to + J.

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TOP n ar Ter nee on e 11. For die fir t Rothman Prize co I. IMP . Game all. uth ~ ort~ t IS 0 0 2H 2S ? South holds : + A73 0 84 OK6S42 6 AQ3 Which of the foiJowing calls do you con ider be t 1 (Name one only.} (a) Double (b) 2NT (c) 3D (d) 3H (e 3S (f) 4H This que tion turns on the interpretation that should be put on 3D by South at this point of the auction. The meaning of the bid is considered in the an er to (c) below. The po ible answers : (a) Double. If the double could be construed as " neptive ••, it would be the ideal call, but by all the textbook definitions it would be for penalties. Can ou be reasonably sure of beating 2S 1 Surely not. True, ou ha e some high card , but the test to apply in such ituations is : Does my hand contain an unpleasant surprise for the declarer 1 Ea t know he is under the gun, he know he doesn't hold the four high cards that you hold, and be has still bid freely. Your trump holding is unpromising becau e it means that if Ea holds. , K Q J 9 x x he will be losing only one trick (unle West is oid). You mu give East credit for holding ix or ven pla ing tricks in his own band. At IMPs the double is too close. Points - 2. (b) 2 T. The obvious objection to thi call is that a no-trump contract would be pla ed from the wron band. Game in no trump might be po 'ble if orth held + Q x or J x x, but only if ortb were the d clarer. It i not like) that you will be able to run nine trick after a pade le d, but ou might be able to run eight, so the call is not unreasonabl . Points - 3. (c) 3D. There re two wa s in which 3D might be construed. Does it i ify the sort of hand that South holds her iamonds not ood enough for aq immediate , no positive upport for heart , but game chan 1 r do it ignify a hand with a or in leton heart, but diam nd stron t11at the can be introduced at this lev 17 Her I thin on m be uided by frequency. It ems to me that the first pe is much commoner th the second. On that ba i D i the bid in the pr t ampl . P rtn r encour ed to bid no trump if he h a mi- uard in p d or to bid in hearts if he h s a stron uit, nd he ma , of cour • pa diamonds. Point - S. 14

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2. I P . Lo e all. outIt Nortlt IH 2 T 0 7 orth' 2 T, according to the system. is " unu ual ", denotinc Jenatb in th minor . South hold : + K 10 7 6 3 2 09753 0 62 6 4 Which of the following calls do you con ider best 7 (a) Pa (b) 3C (c) 30 (d) JS The omens ar unpropitious and your main objecti e i to escape a penalty. The po ible n wers : (a) Pa . Tbi i ta tically best. o doubt the opponents will double, but ou may then tran fer to 30 with no ri k that partner will advance. Point S. (b) 3 . The only po ible reason for this bid is th t in a it Jives yo u two ch nee : the ne t player might be unable to double clubs and mi&ht let ou off the boo . But there is the sub tantial disadvantage that partner m · rightl or wrongly- um you have som upport for clubs and may 10 to 4C with di trou re ult . Point - 1. (c) 30. Thi is orthodox you have been a ked to name our better minor· but it carrie with it the danger that partner will inevitably conclude that ou have some trump upport and he may dvance in diamonds. Poin 3. (d ) 3 . You might get away with thi if the spades were so distr&buted th t neither opponent could double, but if you end in 4D doubled and 1o an unnece ry 300 or more you will hav to take th blame. Points- 1. l . Pair . E-W vulnerable. uth Wt ortlt lH 0 2H 0 H Double 0

uth holds : + 096 0 010 0 A J 10 S 2 6 09 Whi h of th followin call do ou n id r (a) P (b) 4 (c) SD t in the .. Briel Jud nt ". The 16

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November 12th- 1171 UNDER THE DIRECTION OF G. C. H. FOX A unique opportunity for daily Bridge lnllruclllon. lmprov. your play at the Bridge ~ t..m COII'""Ialle. The,. will al.o be beginner.' elM-. Rubber and Duplicate Bridge be CMDI.... IMI CHAMPAGNE AECEPTION GALA D Full boan:I-Ct7'1, G.IMcik- •Fllghta a1eo from c-.aow. 17 (b) 4 . If partner happened to be 3-0-5-S, 4S doubled miJht cost 700, d this you mu avoid at all co However, lf 4S is doubled m wh t G~ u to call a " oice of thunder " ou can retreat to 50, so it cannot be wron• to try 4S on the wa . Partner probably h four. Points - S. (c) SD. ot a mistake. for it certainly won't cost more than the value f a vulnerabl game to the oppositaon. However, as I have ·d, it costs nothing to try 4S fir t. Points - 4. It wa some years ago, admittedly, but more than half the American panel voted for pa as the best action. Moy , the director, remarked, truthfully af not elegantly, " Becau a problem may em bizarre at first glance is no rea n not to think it through imagioati ely ". . IMP . -S ulnerable. outb W t orth lH 20 Double 3C o No 7 The double of 20 i for penaltie - not Sputnik. South holds : + KJ742 0 10 0 K Q 10 4 6 J s Which of the following calls do you con ider best 1 (a) Pa (b) Double (c) 3D (d) 3H (e) 3S This is a situation where the better judgment of most players would tell them to pa , but they might not re pond to their better judgment. The poaible swers: ( ) Pa . Not much becau a p gladdens the heart. but beca all the altemativ are poor. Points - S. (b) Double. There are those who would tot up their 10 points. lldd them to partner's opening bid, and conclude that opponents could not make a nine-tric contract. But if you look closely, you will that a double is dan erou . No doubt West has a ingleton or void diamond and at least lix club , so your diamond honours will go to waste. Partner cannot have any tren th in clu , or he would have doubt d. I would expect them to make at 1 ast eight tricks in clubs, and to double for an extra 50 is not at all attractift. Points-1. (c) 30. Where will this I d 7 Partner, baftled, will probably bid lH, which you can p , but if he ha a stopper in club he will f 1 th t he is being exhorted to bid 3 T. Well, this might be all right, lf the clubl could be ut out. Point - 2. (d) 3H. This m y be on, but my fe lin · that if partner baa enoqb to make 3H h will urely be bidding 4H. The defence of Ace a.od anotber diamond is all too likely. Points- 2. ( ) 3S. 1b sam rt of arguments apply. If partner h enoup for nan tric s in p d , d spit the likely in diamond he will ·~ be bidding 4S, since our hand i more or Je unlimited. Points- 1.

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M mber of 1 Grand etropo 11 n Hot I Group 5. IMP . Game aU. a~ IT 2H 3C 0 JNT 0 No Double 0 0 0 We lead the Jack of hearta and this dummy aoa down: K J 10 S 0 74 0 jlO 6 Q9862 0 J led • 8 s 2 OKQ 0 K9S 6 AKJ4 In bidding JNT and standing the double, South bas been bold. The hand .art fairly well when H J is led, East wins with the Ace and returns a heart. at line of play do you now con ider best 7 (a) Play oft some clubs, then run D J from dumm . (b) Lead a pade to the King and if it holds, as is hkel , run 0 J. (c) Plan to lineae J. Tbi deal occurred in the Final of a recent National competition. Tb ible answers : (a) Play oft some clubs, then run 0 J from dummy. Here you rislt 10ina ·o down, and the reason why, apart from that, the play is wrong is explained 'n the an wer to (b). Points - 1. (b) Lead a pade to the King and, if it holds run 0 J. U West plays low nd you o up with the King, you are safe to o only one down, for what th t is worth, but this line, as compared with finessing •J. pins only when East hold both Queen . This is unlilcely, because with six hearts to the Jack and two unsupported Aces West would probably have passed over INT. Points-). c) Lead a p de, intending to fin if West pia. s low. This i correct, even though you will be two down if the fine loses. West ma , it · true. o up with • A, but declarer must adhere to his origin I plan and lineae the Jack latu. Points - S. In the match South cro ed to •Kand finessed in daamonds. Thi resulted in one down, becau W t held both AQ .

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INTER-RECIO AL PAIR CHAMPIO HIP AL lf71 The first Rothmans Inter-RegJonal Pairs ~ampionship proved. to be aa unqualified u with i of the seven English heat o er- ubscrtbed. As a conJequence the scope of the comin ear' toUf!lament ha be n e !ended. As a r ult of the fir tournament, ~hree pat.rs were supported m ~.by Rothmans in the Fifth Pairs OJ mpiad m ew Orlean . lbou&h the B~tilb, like mo of the Europeans. ere out unned by the orth and South Amencana, the three pairs concerned achieved the highe t measure of uc of the British continaent. Amsbury and Sowter failed narrowly to. r~ch the final of the 9pen Pa.ln- 42nd at the end of the semi-final round wtth JUst forty places available fo~ the final. The hand they offer from the. Lo!ldon final of the .Rothmans Re110!W Pairs Championship shows that imagmatton must be ctated With attention to detail. The Preci ion Club sequence wa the same at at least two tab! ·­ orth SoutJa IC 2H 3H 4H (end) West led the ten of diamonds and thi what East could see :- orth + KQ96 'V K7 S ()AJ84 6 AJ East + A 10 S 3 "'Q 10 0 K9 6 6 K87S DUIJlley played lo and Ea t won with the king. A jump take-out of a (16 or more high card points) show a six card suit and DOt more than five points. East could calculate that his partner's diamond lead was from a doubleton which meant that declarer had ten red card ix hearts and four diamonds. If he bad two p des and one club the defence could talte one trick in a black suit. If he had two club and one spade it was tia1 to develop the club trick before declarer could set up a spade trick. At trick 2 one defender switched to a low club. The second defender al calculated that declarer had onl.r three black c:arda and that the defence should try to develop a club trick before the ace of spade~ waa knocked out. But he went one stage further. The jump to T o ltearta showed at most five high card points. Declarer waa alre dy marked with tiM queen of diamonds, therefore he hould not have the ace of h rts and he milbt well ha e the que n of club . At trick 2 he switched to e ten of hearts. This wu the complete deal. ortJa + KQ96 w "'()AJ84 7 s + J 4 2 6 AJ A lOS 'V A3 "'Q 10 <> 10 3 <> 96 6 10 6 4 3 2 K87 S 21 Internationals Rita Oldroyd and Sail Sowter were the I ding Llldi pair in the London final of the Rothman Regional Pairs Ownpio!Uhip and will r pre nt Great Britain and Rothmans in the Ladies ri of the World Pairs I mpiad Ill ew Orleans. On today's hand from the final Mrs. Sowter matched en competiti e bidding with accurate card play to re · er a top ICOre. Dealer Ea t. ortb-South game. •til 643 \7}863 w t ¢ J 6 2 J9 . 64 2 Q 107 OQ9 \JK752 ¢A 10 9 7 orth ¢54 • Q 10 8 53 A K 85 2 . AK97 \)A 10 4 ¢ KQ83 e ortll •• t •til lC Double 3C Pa Pass Double Pa 3H Pass 3S (end) Given that the pade were 3-2 declarer had a certain loser in each suit plus ';e additional problems of avoiding a cond heart lo r and negotiatin the ourth diamond in the event that the uit did not break nd no evident entri the dummy. The defence began with two rounds of clubs. Declarer ruffed the second . nd played the king of diamonds for W t' ace. West won and played a third ... tub. Declarer ruffed and made a good shot with a low heart towards the jac V t won with the queen- the nine would have been equally revealing-and made what seemed to be the safest exit of the ten of diamonds. Declarer won with the queen and ca bed two top trumps before pi yin a diamond to the jack. If East ruffed be would either have to play a ay from the heart king or give declarer a ruff-and-discard. When East discarded, declarer took a winning heart fine and till h d a trump in dununy for her l t diamond. Ea t could over-ruff but that would be the fourth and 1ut tri for the defence. Mrs. Oldroyd and Mrs. Sowter finished in a highly creditable seventh place in the final. In the early stages of the qualifying rounds their place in the final wa far from ured but they went from trength to strength as the tournament continued and the experience will surely have made a stronger pair of them. Mrs. Marku and icola Gardener looked lilte po ible winnen when they wer third after the five qualifying ions. There wa no cany-over to th tin ; they began with a first ion which was poor by their standards and never recovered. Inner : K. R. r man, • M.anavl (Y) ...... er 54 (from th~ Manch ster Ec ning N~ws h~at) 2. Mi . Gardener, B. Schapiro (L) ...... • Bournemouth 20 0 3. R. A. Bruty, G. K. Shaw ...... B . ol 1997 4. D. A. Rob n, B. Gold enfield (NW) ...... Mandl er 19 7 5. A. R. Forrester, R. molsld (Y) ...... e cutle 1973 6. u itute p ir ...... 1972 7. U. M. Dourmousb, P. Donovan (L) ...... 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Great Britain•s limited rept-tatt. to amoopt the heaours at the Piltb Pain Olympilld. Ia tbe the ...,_ t. the Open Pain Olamplon- ip four out of five paan manapd to the first cut, Which came after four· eeaion The brothers Leilbton. Albuquerque and Dormer, Amsbury and Sowter and Bolabaw and Culel were U there and thoulh none was in the lint forty ~everal bad a reuonable chance of endinl there after the two fmal qualifyina on . In the event all failed. though Am bury and Sowter m 42nd place could consider themselve unfortunate not to be amon the elite who began afresh for the four- ion final. . Am bury found a winning answer on a hand wh•ch recalled a fa ou band attributed to Gior ·o Belladonna. Dealer Ea t. orth-South game. ortla + K43 \) Q 10 3 <> J 4 3 6 862 w t • AQ J 10 52 + 97 \JJ742 \J K9 <> one OAK9765 61Cl0 6J 53 uth + 6 \J A865 <> Q 10 2 6 AQ974 ortb led the three of diamond again t Am bury' contract of Four Spad The first problem wa which discard to take. Recalling the manoeuvre attributed to the Italian m ter, declarer discarded two club from hand and continued with the nine of heart from dummy, South and West pla ing low. ortb won with the ten and returned a trump for dummy's nine. The kin& of hearts lo t to the ace but with South unable to I d a cond trump declarer had time to ruff a heart at the same time e tabli bing hi jack. for the tenth trick. An el gant play though one which would not have ucceeded h d th orth-South heart holding been rever ed. As I recall the Bell donna hand which fir t appeared as a problem t b , the trump po 'tion wa the same, the heart holdin wa J oppo ite K 9 and there were neither Jo rs nor discards in the other two uit . Amsbury' play of the nine of hearts well imagined : the play of the nine of heart in the origin 1 hand a one hundred per cent certainty. Although only repre nted by two pairs, British hope wer much hilber in the Ladi Pairs Champion hip. Ri • Marku , king her third sue in thi event, was partnered by icola Gardener. Fi qual if) ing rounds wer follow by a four ion final in which the cor s started from cratch- pity for the Briti pair who ended the qualifying ta e a c1 -up third. G rdener bowed excellent technique on the following hand :

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" d or once ia a whUe fonD boot-:..lli..:iMi~ ...sed team1 came thi'OUib to the • 6aall u follows : (G. al, G. 1'-bJ. -. D. f, CoiU8II) lleat J. G~ (B. P. TCII*J, M. H. AlnJ, . eaw... ~ . lf8ntl) ltf.UII. Dr. P. (f. AmltJia7, A...J!~..t._!· I Locllt> beat D. w. Price CC. E-. C. Dadl-'11 R. U"IMIIIJ'' 1 ·Ill. A. C. ,....._.. Cl. L i(laldall, ~ R. latlad, C. llillbQp, P. H. CoUina t.at Dr. J, Mat.._ (Mrs. J. Ma~. D. Ulan. Mrs. • .,_, J, P•tridt, I. Mom-) 1)447. A. ~ CC. RodriJue, M. I. Pilat. 1. • • Roe!.r Mn. I. Prtday, Mn. H. FlJnl) t G. I. Dt.- (J. D. Colley, V. A Martindale, r. G. ~. G. A. H. Petrie, H. Pudtey) 168·f44. At the next stage the ranking list uffered a vere . Posner, the bolder, took an earl lead a inst Sowter, lost tt shortly thereafter and the fuul margin of 166-120 by no means flattered Sowter and reflected a performance b the holders which was far removed from that in last year's final. Priday and Thomp n had a much clo r match and with eight boards to pia , Prida , who had trailed for mo t of the way, uddenly too a 1 d of eight points. His reat r e perience might have been e pected to tell but in fact the fir t hand at each table proved d ci ive. Dealer orth. Game all. ortb + KJ976 \) AS 4 Wet 0 A J 2 East + AQ542 6 10 + one \) KQ9 \) 72 0 10 s 3 outh O Q8764 6 J 4 + 10 8 3 6 AK7652 \) J 10 6 s l 0 K9 6 Q93 At both table orth opened On Spade and Ea t overcall d Two o Trum Priday, who ha the reputation of a solid bidder, might have be n expected to prefer Two Club with the po ibility of bowing a two- uited minor in the u quent auction. After considerable thought We , Rodri ue, d ided to rely on a much stronger holding in the minors and bid Three o Trump South might have done be t to lead the ten of pade , but with two likely entrie in hi hand he felt he could afford the luxury of leading the thre d the contract was e entually three dewn. At the other table We t, Dilk , accu tomed to the more adv nturou m thod of hi partner, contented him If with a quiet bid of Tbr e Diam nd o er Two o Trump . In due cour South, Ro , competed with Tbr e Spade and wa doubled for down one and an 11 point in . Ro had the problem on the other hand : Dealer Ea t. orth-Soutb gam .

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QJ96 5 . n11d r (d) 20. 4. rtll 0 I T 0 0 l H Which of the foJJowm call do you con ider be t 1 (a) Pa (b) Redouble (c) 4C (d) 4 T (Blackwood).

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South holds : . A63 C1 A K 10 0 K Q J 10 7 3 Which of th followin call do you consider be t 1 (a) Pa (c) 6 T (d) 7C (e) 70 (f) 7 T.

7. In the final of a recent ational competition the bidding on one band, w1th E-W ulnerable, went : outb w t rtb I T 2S 3C 0 30 0 0 Double 0 0 0 orth's 3C was tran fer bid. Th were the hand of Wet and Ea Wt . AJ 7652 C1 J 7 3 0- 6 74

The contract w e il mad . Comm ntm on the re ult, would ou ~ tb t : (a) ed 301 (b) a hould have bid 3S over 30 1 hould have r mov d the double mto 1 1

th Wt t AQJ96l 1074 J 10 s AQ6 OK .. 104 6 A9 5 2 Wet pi orth I d trump, to which aU folio Ho ould W t pi n the pi 1 n. .. H. O'c- (W) 7,JM, •• (QI) 7,1,

15th BRIDGE TO R E T

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