Show EASY LESSONS IN 4 1 1 1 i AUCTION BRIDGE I 1 1 1 by 1 PAUL 1 I 1 L 1 author ot 0 hihath Hihl th his an m auction bridge I 1 1 v 9 i copyright by flayle jr article twenty five declarers declarer play of a no trump continued ERE is a deal illustrating seve al points about finessing 6 J 4 3 1 V A AK K 0 54 5 A 4 K Q 10 4 S A at 5 N j K 10 9 7 1 17 0 1 8 1 W E p 42 lots 1063 0 98 0 0 K kat J 2 batt s 4 A aa 7 I 1 J 6 4 I 1 0 A 0 10 1 4 4 92 north deals and bids one club east passes because his ove live card spade suit ruit might take only two tricks ado he be has not sufficient compensation in outside quick tricks trick south bids one no ti trump timp which Is very proper alter after his partners club bid and all pass west leads the seven of hearts dummy Is spread and declarer atop to make a survey lie he wants to finesse diamonds and spades towards west anil and clubs toward east and cannot plan the play to in any further detail the deal Is played as follows W V N E S UK ITS in 2 D DS 04 da dio a ca CS CA ca 4 H IIA nit n 5 da DS DJ di DO 6 da sa DK DA 7 SS sa S ct da W 8 sa sa sa 06 ca CIO sa ca 10 1 cs CK sit it 11 CJ CO II 11 H 12 ct sio SQ SO IS ila SJ SK SA declarer makes a small slam in the diamond the double finesse Is taken because declarer lias has less than nine cards in the sult suit in both bands and of course when it wins the lead must mui t be thrown back to dummy and another low diamond led from there in leading towards the kins king queen and ten of clubs declarer is following the double finesse ida and since ile he holds the nine he leads that and passes it through As east has to play the ace declarer knows that west tins has the jack of clubs and so Is sure of the second finesse at trick nine at trick four east ret returns urtis his partners sult suit as he be ha li sure of taking out declarers last high one the ace and he hopes that west may get the lead later declarers diamonds and clubs are now so thoroughly established that te e easily takes an all of the remaining tricks entry cards this la Is a subject which marry many players need to study more carefully who has haa not bewailed the lack of an entry card one often hears a player say well r have three perfectly good cards in ID dummy but I 1 cannot get to them and the pity of it la is that in the majority of such cases it might have been helped tf if the player had given entry cards more consideration often one way may play so a to make certain cards take tricks which would not ordinarily do so when declarer has four earda cards of any suit in each liand haild it usually I 1 1 possible to play them in ia such a manner as to make an extra entry card la in dummy suppose that declarer holds ace queen ten and alid five and that dummy has king nine eight and six the ordinary way to ta play this suit would be to load lead the five and win in with wilh abe tt king which places tile the lead in dummy one once and makes it impossibly to get it there a second time in ilan suit it if however the ati ten la Is led and taken with the king the six led back to the ace and the queen theu then played it usually will draw tile the last of if the adae adversaries T saries earls cards and declarer will have created a second entry card in dummy the nine dine to which he can lend lead the ove five another stua situation tion valere many beginners become con confuse fusel se I 1 atud lose a trick vr fr two Is where declarer holds all of the high cards of a sut suit in his two hands but where his own hand holds only three with five la in dummy who has no reentry re entry card in any other sult suit it if he plays so as to take the third trick in ills his own hand the two remaining cards in dummy are worthless because lie cannot get to them thus he loses two tricks ui lit such a cuse case it should be easy to 0 o remember to play the high cards frum from the short hand tirel |