Salt Lake Telegram | 1948-01-22 | Page 17 | Better Bridge

Better f Bridge d Peffer fl 9 By c Charles H. H Goren D North none lIone AXIS East I East 6 G el 9 8 South Sooth 94 84 t 76 arid and West vulnerable abie Ill al bidding cw West Vest t North East Ead pass PAIl S clubs 3 S hearts pass Pass 4 hearts Pass Pass FaD 7 spades Pass Passi i t lead Jack of Heart Hearts ds j of Indiscriminate over- over ieh fsr w from being a nuis- nuis f lly provide aid and andr b r the enemy were never rated ed than In today's I B the Individual Chamat Cham- Cham at it the recent National tnt ait in Atlantic City This Thise 4 II won by Ludwig Kabak- Kabak chose to open with 1 procedure roce lure with which we wea a v accord 2 2 24 n trick hands handset et at be opened without a e suit or at least another biddable suit toe to toM M he convenience of a r should hould make an early uble this hand has not cUd ted defensive strength place to which to opener choose not for such ouch penalty double trill trail tt ll of three Hearts is isto isto isto to which reference was ve jve It seems to me they the if 1 y to deplete ones one's supply cash p paned d the Jack of ot Hearts of the overcall iy ty j by declarer would ree re- re e defeat of the contract la presented with an ap- ap He can discard both bothI I rout out ul of dummy on his Hearts H arts and th then n hope tip up the Queen of Clubs light pt discard two Clubs from dummy and play for the Diamond finesse Proper technique calls calIs for the Uie postponement postpone of ot the decision by ruffing the first Heart Trumps TrumpS' are then extracted and ant declarer should plan to give himself him himself self two ch chances He should hould first play the Ute Aco and King of Clubs In Inthe inthe the hope that the Queen will wm drop when this falls the Ute two Clubs are discarded on the Ace and King of Hearts and then the Diamond nd finesse linesse Is tried As As Aswill will be be observed observed ob ob- observed served both these plays fail faU and the contract is defeated a a trick though declarer actually has given himself the b best bes es t percentage ge chance The Vulnerable overcall by East however changes changes' the th complexion of the problem That East lacks the King of Diamonds is almost Inconceivable so so that declarer must abandon bandon the Diamond finesse and concentrate on the Club suit aulL With six Clubs out dut the advantage is naturally with Club finesse sc rather than the pl play for or the drop so that the finesse ot of the Jack of Clubs becomes marked and brings In the contract When en last lut seen East was making inquiries as u to pal painless methods of ot removing g ones one's tongue r Copyright 1948 by Charles H H. Goren