| Show CULBERTSON on CONTRACT I By Ely Culbertson I Worlds World's Champion Player and Greatest Card Analyst I BRIDGE DRIDGE HUMOR lIU Probably one of ot the funniest bits of at unconscious bridge humor was per per- by one of our leading New NewYork NewYork NewYork York players a few days ago The pa player er in question although eminently emi capable and very brilliant plays bridge purely for r the fun Iun he gets geu out of it no matter how hov disastrous a result h he may obtain from time to time He continually experiments with new types of oC bids though I must admit he confines his more extremely abnormal activities to match point duplicate rather than to rubber brid bridge c. c His latest hobby might be termed super preemptive bids ids For some ome reason or other he has found it expedient ex cx- against vulnerable opponents when he is not vulnerable to open the contracting as dealer with witha a call caU of oC three hearts with rIth a holding such as the thc he following Spades 9 Spades 9 8 5 4 Hearts Q Hearts Q 7 4 2 Diamonds J 10 1085 8 85 5 Clubs Clubs 3 In a recent duplicate game he opened this very hand as dealer with the above bid This bid was quite promptly doubled by the next opponent opponent nent The double was followed by three thre passes and our friend was set 1750 points point not vulnerable In telling the story about the hand later in the evening Mr X although a little sheepish was not at all crest crestfallen fallen He said that he went into one of oC the longest huddles of his bridge career before passing the three-heart three double What in heavens heaven's name were you thinking of one of his f asked him He replied that he was doubled so quickly that rescuing h himself with a abid abid abid bid of ot three spades occurred to him himas as being quite quito possible He further confided that he weighed the matt matter r very seriously bel before ore de deciding iding against it But his crowning remark was the following more he said I was absolutely correct Three spades would have been down 2700 and I was only beaten 1750 at three I hearts L Lewis wis Copeland vice president atthe of at the Bridge World Inc has confined most of his activities to the business side of bridge Recently however he has developed an int interest rest in the technical side of the game and the following hand proves his possibilities ties as a player North dealer Both sides vulnerable Part score north south north 90 00 Mr Smith SmithA SmithA SmithA A 7 4 3 9 8 7 5 0 0 A ST A KJ 9 3 2 A 10 I 6 5 2 10 tb K J 6 4 3 o Q J 10 7 EjA W E 8 84 4 6 6 5 3 2 1 4 Q 10 7 8 0 A K 9 6 The bidding Figures after alter bids in table refer to numbered cred tory lory paragraphs North East South West Pass 22 Pass 4 Pass 3 3 A Pass 40 6 Pass Pasa Pass 57 Pass 5 6 8 Pass 6 6 A 9 Pass Pass Pass 1 Lloyd Smith Mr Copeland's partner does not quite have an opening open opening ing bid but he decides that a part score makes an opening advisable as ashe ashe he may have difficulty in m getting into he bidding later 2 2 Forcing for one round of bid bId- ding 3 3 The length of oC the diamond suit justifies this bid 4 s A free bid cannot be considered at this point 5 5 A brilliant bid showing secondary second ary support in spades and no losers loser In diamonds a C. C Showing two aces the king of a bid suit suiL 7 Signing oC off 8 8 Refusing to accept the sign signoff signoff off oU 9 Finally deciding that the hand must contain some play for lor a slam The opening lead was wa the singleton 10 of hearts which was won by Mr Copeland with the queen He now no led a low diamond and trumped returning re reo re- re tu turning a spade to his own hand West won the trick with the ace and led a club This trick was won in inthe inthe inthe the the- dumm dummy with the ace and the outstanding outstanding outstanding out out- standing spades taken out The ace and king of diamonds followed and when east showed out on the third round the count on the hand became marked mark Originally east caSt must have held f five fc c hearts three spades and two diamonds consequently he held three clubs If one of ot these those clubs was the queen a perfect squeeze was in sight Consequently the remaining trumps were led out and east eventually found himself forced to choose choos-c between blanking his queen of clubs or his king of ot hearts He chose cho the former hoping that Mr Copeland had not counted correctly This did no good however as the king of ot clubs was played unhesitatingly and the remaining remaining remain remain- ing clubs in the dummy established Copyright 1933 1033 Ely Ey Culbertson FREE CULBERTSON BOOKLET LET By special arrangement readers of this newspaper may have a free copy COP of The Rules and Ethics of ot Brid Bridge e by Ely Culbertson Address Mr Culbertson Cul- Cul bertson benson In care of oC this newspaper inclosing in inclosing in- in n closing a stamped self addressed envelope en en- |
