Show Knowledge of Cards Position important in Double Squeeze By AtAN KOCH j For those who knowledge of bridge is a well understandable way to To those who are books with this which will appear re ST in the and practically The end of good bridge lies in the S of mentally reconstructing unseen The ability to Si off a double squeeze counts unless one knows f ere the cards In today's Ld declarer delayed taking the finesse of leading up to fa A-J of clubs until he had looked into more certain ways of his and by the time he was through he knew enough about the defender's hands that he no longer had to risk a N S A K 8 6 4 3 H A 5 2 D 7 6 C Q 5 W E S Q 7 S 9 5 2 H K J 9 8 3 H Q 10 7 D Q 9 2 D A K 8 4 C A J 7 C K 9 3 S S J 10 H 6 4 iD-J 10 5 3 8 6 4 2 The S W N E P IS P P P P The king of spades was led by followed by the In order to kill the which had set up as a winning North then led a third spade which his partner trumped and West Declarer then led a small which the queen North took the second heart lead and then exited with his last Declarer had now lost three tricks and could afford to lose no but he held a potential club One way to avoid the loss of a club would be to finesse the jack of this play would win if the club queen were in South's but would lose if it were in Declarer decided instead to try to set up his fourth diamond on the board if this he could still try the club Before attacking he played off his last North discarded a small spade and both the dummy and South dropped small The and king of diamonds were then but South was found to have the suit The position at this point West played the king of clubs and then the last club from the South played the 10 to the second round of but since his last card was known to be a he could not have held the queen of clubs and hence the club finesse was West therefore went up with the ace and duly brought down the The hand brings up several interesting North opened spades and continued After two he knew that neither his partner nor the declarer had any spades it was imperative to lead a third round while his partner still had a trump in order declarer from discarding a club on the spade When North won his trump he exited giving declarer no information and no North left declarer to his own North chose not to take the club finesse but played for the three-three heart Had he found there would have been no uncertainty in the hand for the third club could have been discarded on the last By the time declarer found out that the diamonds were he still had the option of taking the club finesse and thus he had lost nothing by trying the diamonds by then had sufficient information to render the finesse |