The sun., 1901-10-20
THE BRIDGE WHIST TABLE.
INFORMATION a PLAYER sHOULD
TRY TO GIVE HIS PARTNER.


Suits-Danger sf Discarsiing ss
y as to Expese Your Partners Hand.
Among the many questions which are
continual subjects Of dispute among bridge
players. none II more common than the
one Of giving information or withholding
Il. How much information tn give and
to whom to give IL. h the question. How
much TO give includes the subject Of
number showing leads. cards indicating
command, informs,ory discards. etc.
To whom 10 give Il is easily settled. to
the partner always: never to the enemy
Put how to give I, TO the partner SO that
thu enemy shall not get II al the same time
l. no, 80 easy. 40 II comes down to giving
only such information A. shall be more
useful tn tho partne than to the enemy.
This Is something that requires nice
judgment II IL an old axiom that infor-
nation II of more Use 10 the strong hand
than TO the weak. and in bridge II IL taken
for granted that II l. the dealers side that
l. the stronger and that will avail itself
of all the scraps of information that are
s"aitered about during the play Of hands.
Hut II h argued that the dealer knows
great deal In any case. a. he -e~s two
hands out of four and can tell eXsctly
what he j. opposed TO. although he may
Il know in which hand certain individual
,i-ds lie This being 50, II IL not adding
. u"h to his information II YOU tell him
I AT vou have a certain strong suit or com
IA ding cards ia a suit. because he already
Luow~ hat those cards are hetween YOU
ard our partner
But II is adding a great deal To your
partners Information. because whiI.
lie Sees two hands thev are not the two
hands which arr To ~ each other. a. in
The dealers case. but are oppOred
Nhcn he l. In doubt about a certain suit
'lih j. not ~ hs own hand nor IN the
"a nriy's. how l. he to tell whether 1t -
nth hi. partner or with the dcsler7
o, M dealer knows all abou, II and u -chem-
ing 10 keep his adversaries from finding
out that they have that entir, suit bet wsen
them. and II j. ruanifeStly 20 she al vantage
of m" partners IN such a case Ia give each
other all the Information they can, regard
ies- of how much of II - given to the dealer
~ the sane time
The sam j. 'rti" 80 The leuyth Of suits
especially a. no trump. The dealer knows
vis' how many of that suit ara against
,iIn. or how mauv tricks can H. made In
- l"for he can stop II ", sometimes
'owS uSt how hong h. must hold up the
,aT.umnd of u OF keep n guard on the
u cl"Fr 10 each other thai they rrSI-'c-
fiv,'r W hold n certain numhrr. that the
loadsr mold Eve or ~ more originally
az that 'ho 'hir La ! has two left or
thrc, left NJ lie &. ay IT,
THIS Information ,uablcs one PLAYER
10 49, when and Why he must lubbock.
AID the other 10 tell whcn he must win
lis l,ar,ncr'~ trick 40 a. To o. On With The
suit and forcc ~" command of II The
dealer will do hia los, 10 make this in
Nt..tt tssaNf at
piays such fal-c Caris "a to lead III. sd-
NsiSary to believe that II thew 20 on he
will r-nounce. whereas the truth j. that
they will g. up TO a tenacr In h~ hand
Pui the grrat source of trouble is in the
discsrds THE SCN has published several
striking examples of the disadvantage
of the discard ~ tho weak suit under certain
circumstances at 40 trump and has pointed
"ri the necessity for indicating the exact
suit, instead OF leaving the partner to
guess between two suits Next Ia i'm
lbortance To indicating the suit that YOU
would like 10 have led tu YOU j. show
ing the sui; IN which you have probably
snine protection
This will often help your partner very
materially " he has number of d-cards
ahead OF him. because II h. --..- that you
are protected In one suit h. can let that
20 and keep another ia which he has
some strength. Nothing l. 80 difficult
~ trying to keep guard on two suits and
finally 10 have To le' one 90 and not know
which To choose.
But these protective discard- are he
very things that help the dealer more than
anything else. aud II is to sorcc such dis
cards that mos, oi the strategy OF tho
game u arranged. When he dealer sees
that he has fnes-. In a certain sui,
which may be taken In either hand. IL is
TO his interest to find out II Ia. csn In which
hand the card lies against which he pro-
poses To hneS-e n YOU show protection
IN spades he knows he should lead spades
through you. II "ou show weakness in
hearts he knows he should fne-se against
your having a trick IN the suit III you
and you show that ~, ntIv hv an echo.
the dcaer knows he should to avoid thai
boo,s axainsi YOU ON m. o,hor .,,, 10 us
,.s",1v rs,Sa you have not shown any hope Of