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The British . Bridge World SUCCESSOR TO THE CONTRAcr BRIDGE JOURNAL: MEDIUM FOR ENGLISH BRIDGE UNION NEWS Edited by TERENCE REESE VOLUME 11 March 1961 NUMBER 3 Editorial Board BERNARD WESTALL (CHAIRMAN) GEOFFREY L. BUTLER HUBERT PHILLIPS 1TERENCE REESE KENNETH ·KONSTAM ADVERTISING AU enquiries should be addressed to the ADVERTISING MANAGER, THOMAS DE LA RUE & CO. LTD.~ 110 Bunhill Row, London, E.C.l All other correspondence, including Subscriptions, to the Publishers: Moore Batley Ltd., 35 Dover Street, London, W.l Hyde Park 3601-2 Annual Subscription 30/- The British Bridge World is published 011 the 15th of each month Publhhtd tllld prlnttd on bth~/f of the proprietors, Thomas Dt La Rue & Co. Ltd., by !lfoore Batley Lid. 35 Do1·er Street, London, JV.l. 3 March, 1961 Contents Page Editorial 5-6 London and the South, by Jeremy Flint .. : 7- 10 Camrose Conclusion-England v. Wales, by Harold Franklin 12- 15 "Joe", by Frederic Lewis ... ... 16-18 European Championship Appeal Fund ... 18 One Hundred Up: Repeat of February Problems 19 N. Ireland v. England, by Harold Franklin ... 20-24 Play Bridge with Hutchinson, by A. Hutchinson ... ... 24-26 British Universities Congress, by E. S. D. Pinter 27 You Say ... .. 30-32 One Hundred Up: March Problems ... 32-33 Directory of E.B.U. Affiliated Clubs ... 34-35 Result of February Competition ... 35 One Hundred Up: Answers to February Problems ... 37-44 E.B.U. Results 45 E.B.U. Master Points Register 47 Subscription Form 47 Diary of Events 48 4 Editorial INTERMISSION will be observed that the Gold "Everyone except the winners Cup finals have been moved to was complaining that they had the first week-end in Jun.e. played badly", I heard someone say after the Masters Pairs. A FOR DIRECTORS rare admission, but certainly true One of the principal desiderata of the partn<?rship in which I in the bridge world has long been played and or' many others. Add an up-to-date manual for tourna to this the unconvincing perform ment directors, the difficulty ances by English teams in the always being that complicated print~g for a limited market is Camrose, the frequent defe~t .s or unprofitable. The gap has been . narrow victories of l~ading teams in several competitions, and ~ne most capably filled by Frank cannot escape the conclusion that Farrington's production of a 100- the game at the top in this country PB;ge book, duplicated in pro is in a sick state. The older fessional style. This can be players are finding it hard to win, obtained for 25/- from the author yet there is no dynamic thrust at Thornfield, Withins Lane, from below. It is a phase that Bolton, Lanes. It is not the sort will pass, but one may as well of thing that I understand, but recognise that it is with us now. for those who do there are charts . - galore. NEW DATES The. trials for Torquay. are to SORRY, BUT ••• consist of a preliminary "Division While on the subject of books, t~o" stage, from which four pairs may I point out that the B.B.W. Will qualify for the final stage is not really organised to fulfil It is not a method that the to~ orde!s sent in by readers? We pairs like, but the French used it appreciate their interest but would ~or Turin, so one can't say that it prefer that they order through the ts · trade, as we cannot send staff . necessanly bad; the complaint Is going to be that many of the trotting round the bookshops. competing pairs are well short of PRIZE PACKAGE th;required standard. The organisers of the inter- . he dates for these trials are national pairs tournament at tn the Diary of Events, where it Vichy on May 27-28 have once 5 CORNER-BOY again most kindly offered full pension for three days to a pair An incident that I have already of British Bridge World readers. related in The Observer has added Will any coupie (in Britain) who a new word to the language. At a would like to take up this offer celebrated London club a player write in soon, please? One of the defending against a slam led an many good things about Vichy is Ace of a suit of which his partner that one goes awaY with a basket held a singleton, but failed to ful of presents whether one fin play another, so the contract was ishes "in the money" or not. made. The following dialogue then took place: . MORE DUPLICATION "But I petered! I played the 6!" A correspondent informs us that an article entitled "High "What do you .mean, you Speed Sorting Procedures" by petered! You had a· singleton." uFrank and Lazarus" appeared ""' .\~ -• :";*_I•• ·:.~ - ! '~Yes,. but I played it from the in the "Communications of 'hi~ corner." · Association for Computing Machinery" for lanuary, 1961. "Sorry," said the opening leader It referred to "binary expansions ironically, "I was looking at _the . of long strings of zeros." wrong corner." Ready in April HOW TO WIN AT RUBBER BRIDGE the master work by Pierre Albarran and Dr. Pierre J ais adapted for English readers by Terence Reese 18s. Published by Ba rne· & R oc' kl'iff, 2 Clement's Inn, London, W. C· 2 6 London and the South by JEREM_Y FLINT "Horses for courses" is an old West dealer racing maxim, and I firmly believe Love all that it is also true of bridge. WEST EAST Whether or not you share my +A K + Q9764 theory, this month has certainly <y> 9 4 <y> Q J afforded fresh evidence in support 0 A 72 ' 0 J43 ofit. · +A KJ·65i +Q 84 The Daily Telegraph Cup was This hand claimed some dis won by a Middlesex team consist tinguished victims who could not ing of M. Harrison-Gray (capt.), avoid the trap of Three No R. Sharples, .J: Sharples, Miss D. Trumps. As the cards lay, Four Shanahan, Mrs. H. ~ Rye, and J. Spades also failed. · Our bidding Flint-no unusual occurrence for might not receive the approval Gray and the Sharples who have of all critics, but Gray (West) and ~on this event nine times. Kent I reached Five Clubs as follows:- led the field-which .included a . WEST EAST formidable London team-for the Gray Flint first two sessions, and it was only I+ I+ on the very last board that 20 (1) 3+ Middlesex managed to push its ,3<v' (2) 3NT (3) nose in front of this very deter 5+ (4) mined ·Kent quintet: Mrs. A. L. (I) Taking a slight risk that this Fleming, Smart, Buckley, Bowen might be passed. However, if the and Sargeant. bidding continues, West has more The final order was: elbow room·: I. Middlesex (2) Hoping that East can rebid 2. Kent the spades. 3. Sussex (3) At first sight dangerous, but 4. London. a good partner will not expect a London, strongly represented full heart stopper and the Queen by Konstam, Schapiro, Mayer and of clubs after the mere preference Mrs. P. Forbes, suffered a series to Three Clubs. of mis~ortunes in the early boards, (4) Correctly drawing the infer and d1d well to finish fourth. ence explained in (3). 7 The play, also; was not without positions after the second session interest. The defence cashed two although Preston and Swimer had hearts and switched to the King opened a large gap. The final of diamonds. Gray won, played ~ result resembled one of those the Ace of clubs and the top Boat Races in which the winners spades. He then played a club to are five lengths clear at Hammer dummy's Queen. The trumps smith Brid~e. were 2-2, so all was well eyen I.M.P.s though the spades were 4-2. At 1. R. Preston, R. Swimer 889 first sight it appears to be . a 2. Dr. J. Butler, P. Spurway 809 simple percentage problem 3. Dr. S. Lee, S. Booker } whether declarer should play for P. Swinnerton-Dyer, 803 the spades to be 3-3 or the clubs A. Dormer 2-2. However, Gray's line has 5. Mrs. Markus, Mrs. the advantage that if the spades Gordon 797 are 3-3 and South has three clubs, 6. L. Tarlo, H. Franklin . 796 he will still succeed. An interest '7. A. Rose, N. Gardener 79? ing point develops if South drops 8. R. and J. Sharples 792 the 9 or the I 0 of clubs on the 9. J. T. Reese, C. Rodrigue 791 + A. My own opinion is that declarer should now finesse the Then came a big drop to the 8 of clubs. If I am wrong I have te~th pair at 765. The field con no doubL that the percentage sisted of 21 pairs. experts will enlighten me with This was Preston and Swimer's some alacrity. fourth and most clear-cut success The Masters Pairs in the event-a record of con sistency that speaks for itself. Following the trend established Above all I believe that this is a in the Masters Individual, this tribute to their sense of partner event was restricted to players who ship even more than their accurate had achieved National Maste~ card play. An excellent perform status. Although there was a ance by the runners-up, a new good gate, I sensed a feeling partnership, which clearly demon among~t some of the players of strated the growing strength of nostalgia for the ambiance of former years.

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