CONTRACT BRIDGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 155, 2 July 1937, Page 6

CONTRACT BRIDGE.

QUICK THINKING. (53y THE FOUR- ACES.) The kloal bridge player is one who combines good card playing- with accuracy in bidding , , and does both quickly. Most lightning-fast players make a lot of mistakes, being unable to combine speed with genuine reasoning. On the other hand, many perfect analysts take such a long time in arriving at the right conclusion lhat they give too much information to their adversaries. H. Hubcr Boscowitz is a quick thinker who makes few mistakes. These qualities enabled Mr. Boscowitz to defeat a three-no-trump contract. South dealer. Both sides vulnerable. A— 10 7 c V—l 3 ♦—A J 10 8 6 4 3 jft— o Mr. Boscowitz. A—T 0S 2 i *—K 4 3 V-KQGS * E ¥-»3_2 ♦ —!) 7 <j ♦ —**■ ; > *— J 4 2 2 I *—K QlO 5 3 A-α q 5 V— A J 10 7 ♦— Q 2 *—A 98 7 The Bidding. South West North East 1 y Pass 2 + Pass 2 X.T. Pass :i 4 Pass 3X.T. Pae-s Pass Pass

A three-Club bid by Mr. Boseowitz over North's two-Diamond take-out would have been extremely dangerous. South naturally rebid to two no trump, and continued on to game in spite of the three-Diamond sign-off. West opened the deuce of .Spades, and declarer, after capturing East's King, promptly played the Queen of Diamonds. Here Mr. Boscowitz had to do some fast thinkinjr. If, by some chance. West held the Ace of (lute, he might be able to run off enough tricks to set the contract. But this seemed unlikely in view of South's repeated no-trump bids. If West held only one Diamond and Mr. Boscowitz held up his King, that fact would be exposed on the second Diamond lead. However, there was a good chance that both declarer and West each held two Diamonds originally, in which event declarer would be subjected to a difficult guess. Naturally all this reasoning had to be done in a second's space: otherwise the show would be given away. When Mr. Boscowitz quickly dropped the. five on his Queen declarer led another Diamond, and, while ho suspected that Mr. Boscowitz might be fooling him, he could not be sure. Kather than following his hunch, declarer finally decided to linessp again for tlic mining King, whereupon Mr. Boscowit* won the trick and the dummy was now useless. Declarer was eventually set three tricks on the hand. Fast thinking had done the trick—(Copyright, N.A.N.A.)