Show LI H BETTER BRIDGE 1 By C. C N H. H Goren forth orth and andst South vulnerable st t deals Z North orth 4 A 10 9 6 K J 10 8 54 Wet East 3 5 A Q 3 2 4 J 10 6 4 A A K Q 10 2 South 4 K Q J 2 v 95 1 9 bidding I st South West cst North 1 1 2 24 Jo 4 44 uble ble Pass Pass Pass Opening Opening- lead Six of clubs I Playing the ace from a combi- combi tion on of cards including the ace aced nd Ii d queens runs distinctly against e e grain of most players This it would seem was wasted ted for the sole purpose of the finesse By the thee theme me e token in the defense of a ad d d it is a rarity for a player to toad tod tod ad d directly into an queen ace-queen riding I din g. g This tendency y i is s a prod- prod t it of his emr environment for early carly life he Is told to lead through but never never- up to it It be more profitable to wean on the Ule theory that if there isy is isly isy ly y one suit available in which that he can take tricks j might inight as well face it that's suit that should engage his Today's hand provides a striking of t this his h i s principle the spade four-spade contract est led the six of clubs which t won with the queen South with the nine The three clubs was missing missing- and there therea a strong presumption that est held it It is true that South ight be false carding but the ances lances were that West Vest held five because it is apparent that shad had very little else to justify s raise raise It was vas plain that one trick and two heart tricks quid uld not be sufficient to defeat ic e contract contract- Unless the defense uld wd win a trick in diamonds all I mild uld ld be lost But it was mandatory that the II I ck ick in diamonds be built u up p bere bere be- be beI I re re the strong heart holding in my could be developed eloped and ovide vide a parking place for any ing ig diamond declared may hold I t therefore quite properly re- re teed the jack of diamonds rely- rely I on West to have the king If I didn't have ha it it all hope rope was gone d furthermore it would be time timer r West to pay a visit to his pro I brush up on the quality of his ee raises Even with the handheld hand handheld I held the free raise is not sanc- sanc ned by this tillS department which olds aIds out for greater values to voluntary action by partner if the opener Declarer won the trick extract- extract I id trumps and led the nine of I carts arts This lost to the queen and Jie e e diamond ace was then driven I I ut t This permitted the defense to ton I In vin n two hearts a diamond and a fu lub i ENO Note to that if East had continued I. I Pith th h a club at trick two he would ve lost a valuable unit of time timed ind d d would have found that it was op late to build up a diamond I rick ck Declarer would have ruffed and established two good heart tricks in dummy before the diamond diamond diamond dia dia- mond suit could be cleared by the opposition Copyright 1950 by C. C H. H Goren I |