UK IS ON AUCTION BRIDGE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 916, 8 March 1930, Page 23

UK IS ON AUCTION BRIDGE

Ihc Play Of The Hand Against A Suit Declaration (IV) HUen !ot lUb * L ’ V bu “Caliban."— Copyrq,/,, Kcw Zealand.) I- WILU round off wliat I have to sav unnn ,1,;. , and commeDtlD g upon, one or two representative hands. ’’ 86 “* ’ (1) Long Suit v. Quick Tricks.

article** Th^W ‘° Whicl ’ 1 refc " c '' - * previous follows:—Y (dealer* One Two^'L^nds- 6 z^Th 61 " g £“V* T Four Diamonds; Y, Four Hearts- P. WT„ P?i v “? uda ’ -Three Hearts; A, YNo Bid- BNo Bid- 7 t,-;,.. ’\° 1,0 Bl<1 > Five Diamonds; ? „’,7’ • ° Jild » 7 tn “ Hearts; A, Double; all pass. A should open, not with a Diamond, but with the Kim* of Clubs The calling suggests that one of his adversaries mav h„ -A j A , ooenrng lead will prettv well disclose what tv, ‘ w- °' d °t Blamo,,ds - A 3 V.AA TV T-r . T he Singleton Fallacy. . r\. ir!,? ' S * ? ltlstn) etive. hand, ft demonstrates the stupidity of loadin'- a lumps? ’ tCa '‘ ° f ° r ’ eai " S aa attacking suit, when^on/if strong^ia

montfs- Y e N„ O m/ R LO v n- ? v (d 2“ ler > called Two Hearts; A, Three Eh a " a’’, A B ’ No Eld l Three Hearts; A, Double; all pasA led his singleton Club and defeated the contract by one trick "But if hls , Uiam r ds (U 3 in view of his formidable array of trumps arssc **• -r ww w. »< Anticipation of a threatened Cross-ruff.

I lus is an exceptionally interesting hand. At the sporp T nna «’* a the rubber B (dealer) calls One Club. Z shows his Spades and ’A his Bca r : ts (" hu ; h bis partner supports),.and evcntuallv Zis left in with a - all spades doubled. A. inferring from his adversaries’ strouw callin" leads the A 3 A somewhere both of his own suit and of his partner’s’ He aeluratv of V pa S - ’ the s: § ht ° f dummy’s hand confirms CCU rf C E- 1.. S ® us P l cions, continues with a small one. On o- e ttinjy in « oil? E S Kl i lg ,° f Hearts > be leads his third Spade. This, as it happens ‘® tl - e only Hce of play which, will defeat the contract * P ‘