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Prlf!Ud by Moo" &tl•y Lid., Rttrllll PI~ . lAttdotr, £ .9 3 May, 1957 Contents Page Editorial 5 The Gold Cup, by Harold Franklin 6-16 One Hundred Up: Repeat of April Problems 11 Swedish Visit ... 18-19 Double, Double, Toil and Trouble, by Boris Schapiro ... 19-20 Test Your Play 21 American News-Letter, by Alfred Sheinwold ... 22-25 Bridge at R.H.Q., by Kenneth Konstam ... .. 25-27 The" Coffee House," by Pedro Juan . .. 30-31 No. 2 A Miracle lead Autour de l'Etoile, by Jean Besse ... ... 32-34 ... 34--35 One Hundred Up: May Problems ... 36-38 Hands of the Month, by Alan Truscott 39 Dritlsh Bridge World Agents ... 4o-42 You Suy ... .. 42-43 Across the Green Baize, by George Baxter ... 44-51 One Hundred Up: Answers to April Problems ... ... 52-53 Tournament World, by Harold Franklin ... 53-~ Solutions to Test Your Play 54 E.tJ.U. Muster Points ss SUbscription Form ... ... ... 56 biury of Events S6 Cott1pelltlon Winners ... 4 '.r•""' • • f. I Editorial - NO PROGRESS CHANGE .OF COMPASS I seeking a team for the n I . Our new version of One Hun­ European Open Cha mpi o ~ s up, the selectors have kept their eye dred Up has been well received on the ball, but among the ladies and we are incorporating three the situation is confused. The suggestions made by correspon­ first trial was uninformative and dents: ( I) The questions to be inconclusive, and in the trial for answered in the present issue are five teams that will be played on set out on a separate page so that June 15- 16 there must be several readers can study them again players who, whatever thei r before looking at the solutions; talents, will have to perform (2) The replies of panel members miracles to be in line for selection. are tabulated under each answer, On the other hand, at least two enabling any who may be interest­ players who must be right in the ed to calculate the scores of picture have been left out and not individual panelists; and (3) In much time will remain for further the new problems the player who matches. has to make the critical bid !s always South ; solvers seem to REWARD FOR GOOD GIRLS expect that nowadays. A straight match between two teams, Probables and Possibles LE TOURISME if you like, would have been more A most cordial welcome awaits to the point than these portman­ the Swedish party, details of teau games. The policy seems to whose visit appear on page 18, and be one of " giving Gertie a go " there is keen competition for the rather than of buckling down to privilege of playing against them. the business of findi ng the best team. In conversation one hears From the Swedish magazine I remarks such as •• If we don't gather that the ~ i s it~rs are to . be give a chance to players who do real tourists, tnkmg m everythmg Well in our competitions they from Stratford-on-Avon to Hamp­ Wo n't enter another time." In ton Court, from St. Paul's Cathe­ ~hese days of Master Points there dral to Dirty Dick's. 15 no need for such delusory It makes one think. Ah well, carrots. they'll still be there tomorrow. 5 • I ! . The Gold .. Cup By HAROLD FRANKLIN The Quarter-Finals WEST NORTH EAST So urn J. T. Reese v. J. Lazarus 1+ 10 ly> No The last two stages of the I+ No 20 Db!. competition are unlikely to repro­ 2NT No 4+ No duce the drama of this match in No No which the holders staged another of their " last round " recoveries. One could hardly have criticised Reese's team were slow starters Schapiro for an immediate Four and the early encouragement in­ Spade bid on the second round. spired the Manchester team to a At the time 1 thought how well· particularly resolute performance. judged his Two Diamond bid was They gained six points on the in fact-in spite of the apparent first eight boards, lost two on the spade fit Four Hearts might well next and did not have another be the best contract since partner losing set until the penultimate might have been pressed to bid eight. An ordinary looking hand some three card spade holding in produced an early swing :- view of the diamond intervention. West dealer (On his actual holding he might Game all have bid One No Trump, but with NORTH such a diamond holding as Qxx • 42 he would have had no better rebid \/ K than One Spade.) Having bid 0 KJ9654 Two Diamonds Schapiro might + KJ43 now have bid Three Spades with WEST EAST complete safety over Two ~0 + AQ5 + KJ 103 Trumps since a game fort•ng y> 8 6 \/ AJI0943 situation had been established· 0 AI08 0 7 Four Spades plays awlnvardiY + AQ986 72 when North ruffs the second he~rt + . h d..:s· SOUTH and forces -dummy w1t a . "t "liS tWO • 9 8 76 mond. In practice 1 \\< 3 \/Q752 down while in the other roorn ntrnct 0 Q32 pedestrian Four Heart co + 105 yielded eleven tricks. 6 • • • •• 1 ·'. ·. of '1" Even more surprising results course of action for which his attended this deal:- shape was excellent and his high card strength less than might have \\'est dealer ~orth-South 'ulncrablc been desired. Meredith's Four No Trump bid was intended to NOR Til be quantitative and probably AQJ 8 + should have been so interpreted <:? Q7 32 since Four Diamonds would have 0- been the more obvious bid A 10643 + with a generally good hand pre­ Wm EAST pared to play in some suit, but • 6 K972 + North, over-conscious either of \) A 54 " J 10 6 his fine shape or his lack of ,_ - 0 109 8 7 6 4 3 0 Q 52 "goodies," made every effort to -.. 82 KJ7 + + avoid No Trumps. Ten tricks SOUTII were made in play but would 10 54 3 + hardly have been made had the <:/ K9 8 final contract been Four No 0 AKJ Trumps. North-South have no Q95 + better chance than Four Spades Morris and Blaser reached a or Three No Trumps and neither nonnal contract of Four Spades of these are comfortable con­ a.nd, mis-guessing the club posi­ tracts. If it was a triumph for the hon, were one down-every pros­ pre-empt to steer them out of : \ pect of a useful swing for the these games it was 'an even more ... holders for it seemed unlikely that astonishing by-product to per­ North-South could obtain a worse suade such knowledgeable oppon­ result and they had every hope of ents into a 25-point Six No a better. Nothing however was Trumps. so un l 1'k e 1 Y as the final contract in ~e closed room:- When Lazarus achieved an 3 EST NORTH EAST SOUTH interval lead of twelve points 0 3NT No 4NT popular opinion was that it was No SO No 5NT too good to last. The Lancas­ ' 0 No 6+ No 6NT trians however continued with No No No No Dbl. No the same grim purpose and at the end of 48 boards had advanced Juan'so . '·' b1'd ngmal Three No Trump their lead to 21 points, in spite Was 0 r course for take-out • a of this set-back:- 7 I • • I' West dealer points were recovered, leaving a Love all balance of six points.