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T HOMAS DE LA RUE & CO, LTD. , 84·86 REGENT ST., LONDON, W .1 . .. ~ • • • ·EVERY MONDAY · IN ·THE • • • • Baily a!tltgraph I EDITED ~y EWART KEMPSON The Aristocrat of B;idge Magazines Published 1st day of the month · Annual subscription 30/- to any address in the world Order your.copy from your bookseller or direct from Bridge -Magazine, Wakefield Road, Leeds, 10 Please send Bridge Magazine for twelve months to NAME (block capitals please) ......................................................................................... _......... Address ········································································----~---···································································· · ············· Post, with remittance for 30/- to Bridge Magazine, Wakefield Road, Leeds, 10 2 ' SUCCESSOR · TO THE CONTRACT BRIDOE JOURNAL: MEDIUM FOR ENOLISH BRIDOE U.NION NEWS Edited · by ,. TERENCE REESE . I . VOLUME 2 December ·.1956. ·NUMBER 6 . .· .. Editorial Board .. BERNARD 'WESTALL (CH~IRMAN) GEOFFREY L. BUTLER , HUBERT PHILLIPS TERENCE REESE KENNETH KONST AM COMPETITION EDITOR: J." C. H •. MARX ! EDITOR FOR REGIONAL NEWS: HAROLD FRANKLIN ... 4 Roman Avenue, Lee~, · 8 . All otlzer correspondence, including Subscriptions and Ad1•ertisement~, ro tire Publishers: Hugh Quekett Ltd., 35 Dover Street, London, W.I . • Annuai Subscriptlo.n 30/· The British Bridge · l·~orld is published on the 15th of each n_1onth . · D LD R & Co Ltd. by H1111t Qwkltt Published on behalf of the proprietors, Thomtu e ue • ' Pl · ~ 35 Do•er Street, Landon, JV.I. Printed by /IIQQr• Batl,y Ltd., RetT'at II«, . 3 _: i>eeember, 1956 Contents Page I Editorial ... ... 5 ' Rare Deception, by Terence Reese 7- 9 American ~ews-Letter, by Alfred Sheinwold 10- 12 One Hundred Up, edited by M. Harrison Gray 12- 13 Congratulations, by Chien-Hwa Wang ... 14-15 Famous Hands from Famous Matches, by M. Harrison Gray 16- 19 No. 10 Canaries Sometimes Sing Hands of the Month, by Alan Truscott ... 20-2l Females- and Fallibility, by Alan Truscott 22- 24 . Sense~and Sensibility, by M. Harrison Gray 24-25 Test Your Play 26 Subscription Form 27 Oxford Eight, by "Isis" 28- 30 Dupli~ate Night at the Club, by Harold Franklin 30-32 No. 2 . The Porthcawl Bridge Club You Say . .. 33- 34 Across the Green Baize, by George Baxter 34-35 . Solutions to Test Your Play 35- 36 Report on November Competition 37- 39 E.B.U. Master Points 39 Answers to One Hundred Up 40-49 Tournament World, by Harold Franklin 50- 54 Diary of Events 56 4 'I ._ I A NEW· SECRETARY. ' : . ' PERSUASION. .· . • . After many y·ears of valuable .·· There· . hay~- . been t-w~ - qui~k .~-~_-.'·., service, Hugh Collins has resigned responses .. to . the challenge co~.: _ ' ·, · from the honorary :secretaryship tained in : last . month's article '~ , of the English Bridge , U~ion . He · ~ Pride-and . Prejudic~.'; _:' will be succeeded by :Mrs. _A .' L. lt should not be overlooked ' Flemin g, whose appo-intment will . that· Juan 'and Meredith were not take effec t as from January_ I st. out ~o _· " Ia_to~k " • any p~rti~ular. :.- · ;~ . Everyone will wish · to thank play~r. ~heir point _was that the '. _·; 1 Huohc Collins for. the time that he · atmospqere.. in. ' the ·ladies'. teams ·· ·_·. has given up to bridge from his_ · was unsettl~d by the fact that professional duties, and to exp'ress .. certain .pl':lyers ~ad /·their speci~l the hope that, with his tankard and patrons. Readers ·wm . judge for friendly smile, he 'will continue thems.elves ~hether H~rrison~ to be a familiar presence at Gray .and Tri.Jsco!t,. ·re~c~ng ·for 1 __ congresses for many years to their· chilvalrous laf!ces, : suppo~ ~ ·'-': ,. come. Best wi~ hes ; ·also, to Mrs. or _dispel that notion.. , ... Fleming in her new . post: · . YOU SAY ..• _ ON WITH THE _MOTLEY . :·-. J. _what. r~aders . ' sil.y ab~~t . the'· ~ ·: The spirit of cc:>ngress.organisers · · ·British :Brirfg ~ -: World can ~ seen · - .-': : has not been dampened by petrol in :the answers 'to the · November _ rationing or other .external pres: · ·competiticin on p~ges 37-39. We ·__ sures. The Droitwich .Congress are· grat~ful to _ali who w~re . will definitely be held, and so_will kind ·eriougli. ·to· send' . us their' · the Whitelaw Cup at Brighton views·. -There _will . be no . 'new from January 25 ~27. This ·eveht, _Co~ petition' this 'ffi_onth', mainly: by which . the selection of the because" of the 'time 'factor _.in : British ladies' team 'will be l~rgely . relation t~ Christmas holidays. · . guided, has been expanded into a_ · · We wish all'our readers a happy · .~-. · miniature congress. There · wHI . · Christmas and · thank - them ~~r ·: . :1 be subsidiary . events, carrying their support throughout the y~ar. Master Points, opc::n both ~o teams· . knocked out iri the early rounds ' · and to players nof engaged in,the STOP . PRESS • . For result_. or ·. ~ Whitelaw Cup itself. · · · international trials, see page ~· " . 5 Marjorie .Van Rees looks a little like the cat that has stolen the contract, if not the cream. Her partner is Albert Rose, and 011 her rit:ht is Jeremy Flint . .· \ ., Tony Priday and A lhert Rose look apprehensi1•e, Standish Booker twinkles expectantly as Harrison Gray opens the tra1•e/ling score sheet. Photos from thr Masters Individual by C/audr Rodr/gut' ! .... ;;· R·: t::··a~:.:t:-.r;~e:-?·: ... ~iD·:·:;~~e.>.c)·:e:~-. ··}p\t:::: li ·:o·::- :~:· n~~: : ~_,, --~_::~::/t~·-:~;i?-~~ -:~r: ·~,~ · -_~; .. 1. ' ' ~ 1,, '/: •• ~ •• • • ~::~ '}··: -~· '•• • I > ; . ' · ''. :··'. ~.' · . ' .. by - ~ERENCE 'REE:SE · · . ,. / ·.. :,-.=. l, : ;·: . : --:<· .. : . ..: ~ ; Last month Albert Dormer Alte.r · th.~ high _ card~ sl_ightly gave examples of some original and sttuahons will arise which deceptive plays, mostly concern~d are similar, but not the sa~ e... with the play of the· 8 from .a (ii) - . holdin g such as K 1082. -There .is A 10-8.6 3' . ' another group of plays which, .so . Q ~ 4.2 . ~ . ·. i 9 . far as I know, ·. has· escaped · · - K 7 · analysis. It centres around. the . If the King drops. the 9 on the play of the Jack from J9 com~ first' round South. will g<;> up with-. binations.h l first thought about· · the A ce on t h e second. .round . _ sue play wh~n ! wa~ South and. playing East f~r 'Q9 . cir J9. Bu~ ·­ a ~~)it was dtstnbuted thus:- . if East drops the Jack on the first · round, South will finess~ on the Q ·10 8 7 4 second ; lie will' work out· that if' . K 6 3 2 1 9 East has QJ ~lone one trick mu~t A 5 . be lost; in any event to. \Yest:S South lays down the Ace and 9xxx; if East's .Jack · is 'single,, East, we will ass~me, follow~ with however, the hand will be under the 9. Now what is South to better control jf the ~ finesse 'is do on the next- round?· If he taken. : finesses the 7 it will not 'avail him · In the next example we put 'the to find that East had the K9 to long suit in declarer's hand. begin with, for' another ·trick will - (iii) . :.; still be lost' to West's' JXXX • Q 5 Therefore, South will go up with J 9 K 6 4 the Queen, his ~nly chance for .: A. 10 8 7 3 7 • .· '·: i .. four tricks being. to fi~~ East with South leads low .up to the J9. Queen. -If West .plays -the 9 a~d Suppose, however, ·that East the Queen is· headed by t_he. King; drops the Jack on the first lead. .. South may play for the drop of the Now it will look to South as Jack on .the next round. But if though East ~ight liave KJ ;·.' he :· W~st plays ' th~Jack O!\ the . fir~t will surely finesse the 8 and so will , , rou~d South will surely finesse lose two tricks. :. - the 8 on the.way . back. , -7 ' ... J 84 . ' Q84 ' . 7 52 Q 10 753 KJ9 · · ·' A .K96J A 10 6 2 . I The effectiveness of. the Jack Declarer plays· the 4 from table, from J9 in similar. ~ifuations has and if East plays' the 9 the .10 will been overlo~ked . ·For example: . surely,_be finessed. .But 'try the (v) . ·"Jack from Ea~t; ,nQw South will 10 8 4 put on the Ace. and finesse the 8 K 7 5' J9 on the way back, . playing West . ·. AQ63 2 for 9753. - If East plays the Jack on the The. combination AJ9 offers first rouJ.ld South will finesse the . still more opportunities:- 8 . on 'the way b~ck an.d· a trick (ix) w~li be ~tolen by . the defence. Q 10 8 3 This play ~s 'equally effective when AJ9 654 South holds KQ:xxx. ·· · K 72 Transfer one of the high hon- . I. ours. to dummy and the play still A familiar situation in which works:- . normal play will.result in declarer (vi) . .winning three tricks. But try K87 the play of the Jack by West,' A 6 3 · J9 second in hand. The Queen wins _Q 10542 in dummy, and on the way back When a small card is led from South will surely finesse the 7, ibe table the play of the Jack by playing West for AJ alone. East can hardly lose, for if partner Here is another "funny holds the 10 the J and 9 are equals, one ":- and if South holds the I 0 he will (x) be led astray.