Auction Bridge.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19197, 10 October 1930, Page 6

Auction Bridge.

A Local Problem.

JN THIS HAND at game all, A dealt and bid one No Trump and Z two No Trumps, making game. The questiou raised by the correspondent was whether Z should not have made an informative double for the sake of pla)'ing it in Y’s longest suit, and whether such a double would not have forced B into two Spades, in which he would have made his contract.

The hand is not very instructive, because A should not have called No Trumps. He had at most a call of one in Diamonds. Z could have assumed that the No Trump call was unsound, but could not see game in a suit, owing to the great unlikelihood of receiving any assistance from his partner. It was desirable, too, that his hand should not be exposed. Six tricks were certain and the King of Diamonds almost a certainty. But if he wavered at all, his mind ought to have been made up for him by the probability that A’s longest suit was Diamonds, which gave him a chance of making his small Club. Therefore he was right in bidding two over his opponent’s one No Trump. With thirty for Aces he could not be down more than twenty on the hand, and he had a fair chance of game and rubber.