The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-05-09

knows DIR. Poles little rhyme; when second
hand a doubtful card yon, sec, don't trump It II
yoT !rI,Si more g 9 than Sno tnre o.: hence nnrfb the T Saa Inc Jack bcs;
: spades ana diamonds, so tho trump lead is tho
Trick s. A should have. led the club queen, as
IL is very obvious that Il has studiously avoided
leading that suit. The low. card led induces Il
second best diamond guarded over q. p" NV
Trick 10. This is well played by A, who can
Analysis viii show that II trnmps arc led
SpFTisinslly from As hand tSU and B discords
will make IL the top of IL Is led. Nine tricksl
INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS.
In an article on the future Of whist in tho
April number of Home and Country there is u
suggestion that, inasmuch as, all tho whist phi
losophy of the. past has been based on pure tho
DRY, the school OF the future will probably direct
Of large number Of facts; 4 number OF hints are
given as tothe probable drift of these invcstiga-
ssssd p proBs l s Of g m5dsrn IN whist shS 'o Tnh sr g! is ,h iS
receipt Of a very Interesting communication
has not read the article in question, but has been
engaged upon just such a series of experiments
as it suggests. In an interview with Tue Sun
York Whist Club, Mr.. Rachau gave the follow
ing interesting account OF his Investigations:
In the first place his object was to ascertain, II
possible, the, advantage of n trump lead from
weakness when the hand contained one very
fko9SSdp from sm,. s and q a a bana With ba a ee 9t iiee aarS Of The re.
entry was assumed to be admitted. He also
wished to ascertain the percentage Of hands in
pose and brought in tho suit, or got 1t into tho
lead for forcing purposes.
the original leader. the heart 10 turned: H-Q, S;
C-s. 8 DIX, s-A, X, OIL 8. rs Leaving
manning thirty Eight cards were thoroughly
shufiied and distributed among the three other
Rl onyy sai en @a sso them lead e 9f ahs 5ruT TBi, and %us Of c the
tinned for 200 hands. 100 for the trump lead
and 100 for the spade.
Tho rag,tlt abn,Sn1 n fotn1 NJ Gnf tr,,l,a ,-a
upon the original lead OF the trump. and $50 on
the original lead OF the spade suit-a net gain OF
The details of this result were as follows:
With the trump lead
gains Of two tricks each. or ............... : points
23 gains of one trick each. or. ............... 25 points
Total
With the spade lead
gains of thr'e tricks each. or.....".....1e points
13 giins of one trick each, or ..............l IL points
Total
9uently saved from disaster by II trump signal
from the partner. and this happened in almost
credited with large gains. In several eases il
was found that even after the trump signal and
LEM. the original b'n opening of the spade suit had
whenever the diamond ace lay on AS left his
hand was dead and the long spade suit never
made. This goes to show that in all such
hands 1t would have been better TO begin with
the trump in the first place, and tina, the open
ing lead was an error. only corrected by the use
Of IA conventional signal from the partner. Had
the spade lead been left to pursue its own course.
and no signal used, at least a third OF the tricks
credited TO the spade lead would have been lost.
The variations in the strength Of partners
held was: He. 6, 3; CO. 3 D-s. 3, 1. :: SO,
q, 3, .. The strongest was: IA. Il, J. 9. &, 4;
CA, :, 3: D.. 3: SO, 3. The most interest
ing hand that came up was as follows. and some
of our perception problem soivers may he able
to give their opinion of how it should be played.
\ is to lead, with the heart 10 turned by W.
The play and differences should be based on the
general principles Of whist tactics, not those of
double dummy.