| Show t r I CULBERTSON on CONTRACT by Ely world Wald Champion on Player and Greatest Card Analyst T TilE rl BRAKES R. ih dealer at the contract S e the th with a forcing forting bid of two lt opens the theana thes and second nd hand passes tI fa I s A band ana faces a n serious reHe rea re re- a din g be too conserver conserva- conserva lIe He may y bidding at game r and d A u st stop slOp o the e m attainable bra easily easU slam was j wt Kara and In the theOn bidding 1 JA Ue the the other hand he may maw belam be f lam 0 On a ilSc bU c and bid for a slam on op tricks ricks n neglecting to take into I pta PUS fiat that must be lost In fn Into t and o plaY t to adversely held aces 1 world bridge 1 fID th he a recent by the e N National Bridge as- as jk Jc c held geld throughout ages more than players world lorld fir 68 first tint time in history played t to f the binds In competition with the e we see Hand Band No 6 was one of h o then o with of f the hands opened ara Dumber r bid of two In a suit The sio forcing g for the reaching or of a aj I s on this hand rested with tie pIt contract SS had a n very big hand south th j for hIni i oe CC We ell calculated to cause him of slam tr try The to the lure a CO however play si in the back to the declarer and those those ai SS e fined failed to follow the correct prim prin TotO hand development found t ci es of contract instead of being the their t defeated The hand and was were acre bi South Dealer 4 F L Bath h sides vulnerable Q 5 4 r c V 5 3 2 10 8 6 i. i Q 9 4 3 A S 7 N n Q J 10 n W E 87 6 S 5 s 5 0 J 9 3 7 r 4 A K 10 2 tf VI 4 O 0 A Q 7 0 A AK K J 10 G The Tho tio Bidding ding table tabla In fIgures after bids mer to numbered explanatory fl J South goad West North East 41 1 Pass IU Pass t J 3 1 PMS Paw Pass PassIA IA 1 ll Pass s Pass russ Pass J 1 With Iwo biddable suits and five rind irA one one half honor tricks the open open- r cI forcing bid of two is of course clearly Indicated t i North has no other response 3 i 3 Offering partner a choice 4 While many players might here bid three no trump south's opening bid and his should suggest to tc north the danger of oC playing the hand at no trump as neither diamonds nor hearts are arc stopped In the north hand and the bidding has indicated that either alther one of oC these suits or the other Is u short in the south hand Game at clubs appears more probable than game at no trump In order to make the contract of five clubs an appreciation of ot the correct correct correct cor cor- principles of pIa play was required West opened the heart king and south rutted ruffed the second round of ot that suit with the ten The adverse trumps were drawn in two leads the second round being won with the club 9 9 I and md a heart led from dummy which was ruffed in the closed hand The Theace Theace Thence ace nce kin king and queen of spades were then cashed and the losing spade in inthe inthe inthe the closed hand trumped in the dum my Thus both hearts and spades were eliminated from the north and south hands To the tenth trick the theten theten theten ten of diamonds was led lcd from Crom the dummy and md cast east naturally covered with the knave South played the queen west won with the king but could do nothing then except return the suit or lead a heart which would permit the declarer to ruff rutt in one hand and discard in the other TODA TODAY'S POINTER When the bidding is opened with a forcing bid of or two In a suit the responding responding re re- re- re hand has a double If he holds values that make a slam probable he should disclose e ethem them to his partner If Ie his holding is such as IS to make a slam well nigh im impossible impossible possible his f first response to the force should be a minimum TOMORROWS TOMORROW'S HAND nAND The bidding and Ind play of the hand printed below will be discussed tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow to to- morrow North North Dealer Neither side vulnerable A S 74 V d o 0 A 1 G 4 K 10 2 N A ti 6 V Q 10 4 V 9 S EJ W E 0 09 9 0 1 Q J 10 s 5 7 4 3 2 9 96 6 A J 6 3 o 10 4 2 A A K 8 Study the hand decide how you oU would bid and play it and then compare compare compare com com- pare the results you obtain with those shown in tomorrows tomorrow's article Copyright 1932 by Ely Culbertson |
