CONTRACT BRIDGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 110, 12 May 1939, Page 6

CONTRACT BRIDGE.

GIVING UP.

(By THE FO»R ACES.) One of the most discouraging eituations in Contract occurs when your partner opens an Ace a.sainst a six-hid, and you hold a «in?le ton which, unfortunately, happens to be the deuce. Xow, in spite of the fa<-t that you are hoping for a ruff, he is. very likely to shift suits and allow the declarer to make hits liand. South dealer. jf Both nidi's vulnerable. 4' V-α q io 7 5 4— K J 10 2 *—Q J 3 A—T 8 3 "I ~ "A—lo 76 5 4 ¥-4 2 w F V—T 0 8 6 3 ♦-n u s ♦~ 7 4 A—A 10 86 5 J 5 L*W2 4—K Q0 2 V-K ♦—A QB3 *-K 9 7 4 The Bidding. South Weet North Eftftt ] 4 .Pa*.s 2 V Pass 3 + I'ae-ri <) Pa«S Piiiss Pass Smith should have opened with one Diaiiioiul, the suit ranking immediately below 111* , siiiarletoii, instead of one Spade. Following thin ojKMiiiiir, the same final contract of Diiiiiioiids would have been reached, but the bidding would have beon more scientific than the leajiiiiir method which North actually used to got there. Wcwt opened the Ace of Clubs, and, upon ic'fi-iviiipr tlic dt'iu'i; from hi* partner, promptly shifted (o the four of Hearts, whereupon declarer eimply drew trumps and spread hw hand. and AVost then coiiimcnted on their loiiffh luck and the fact that Eaet's sinslelon happened to be the deuce. We agree that it was tough luck for East, but nevertheless We.-t should have continued Clubs in spite of receiviirr the deuce from hk. partner. After all, if liif- partner hold a Heart trick, it would keep, and there was definitely no need to trv to cash it immediately. On the other hand, in of his partner's play of the Club deuce, thfre were two chance* that a (lull continuation would defeat the contract: first , the deuce niijjht be a c-ingleton (as was actually the ca«e); second, hie partner might hold the King and deuce only, in which case also he naturally would have been unable to signal.— (Copyright by The Four Aces.)