PENCIL BRIDGE

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 221, 14 June 1930, Page 23

PENCIL BRIDGE

Before you note the entire ptay examine first the bidding. If you find it is different from y.ur own make a n6te of. what you scorftl wit your own bidding, then rub out _your PI»V replay the hand in accordance with Mott-Smitl s bidding Then you can actually compare your playing, trick by trick, with the experts. THE BIDDING. Ist round: S, one Diamond; W, one Spade; N, two Hearts; E, pass. 2nd round: S, two No Trumps; all pass. THE PLAY Trick 1: W, 0 of Spades—

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SOLUTION OF THURSDAY’S HAND.

Declarer cathea tea top ttiel* and sails it * day. COMMENT The sight of six or seven cards in «. minor suit, especially when they include four or five honours, , inflames the average player to an opening pre-emptive bid of three or four. Personally 1 look upon such non-game pre-empts in minor suits as the world’s worst* S meets the Rubicon on* the second round! Is he to insist on the Diamonds or attempt, a precarious No-Trumper? (Don’t tell me that N can make four Hearts; I can see that as well as you. Getting into the declaration with an asuurauce of tJame is a different matter. Against No Trump is the obvious Club weakness and the possibility,, that W will not open from, his presumable major tenace in Spades, but will open the ’unhid suit, Clubs, in the effort to put E in. - In favour of No Trump is the fjtct that with a Spade opening S can Jay down eight tricks, so that all he needs from N is one" Ace. A- Diamond declaration. is safe, but needs at least three high-card tricks from N to go game. s .You pays your money and you takes your choice. I have indicated my choice. The deal was played in Diamonds at every table of a Duplicate game except one. The exception was where the S piaor was a trained in my cavalier, way of thinking on Nd-Trumpers. Loud were the wails of the other ‘ NS pairs that the W player did not open Clubs against the impudent No-Trumper—-but he did not.