Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-11
BRIDGE TALKS
Written Expressly for The Star By Miss Bessie
Allen Of Milwaukee. All Rights Reserved.
The Discard (Continued).
In q No Trumper.

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In q No Trumper.
II you have once led, you have shown
your strength and your discard should
ton.
The discard Of an ace shows great
strength in that suit. with commanding
cards left in the hand.
Don't discard all you hold Of any suit
in which the opponent may have strength.
When you fail to follow on the first round
1t exposes your partners hand and locates
all the cards for the dealer. making easy
for him to finesse against your partner.
II possible, don't discard at all from a
suit which the opponent Is likely to lead
and in which he must probably finessee,
even II your cards In that suit are all
worthless. II the dealer sees you discard
everything else he may gain an entirely
wrong impression Of the location of the
suit and play 1t exactly wrong.
Don't throw away an honor in any suit
II you can avoid 1t. If your partner is dis
carding from weakness. protect as far as
possible the suit he Is throwing away.
II you are forced to protect honors In
other suits, don't be afraid to unguard
honors In the suit in which your partner
Is strong.
Don't, in a no trumper, throw away the
last card you hold Of your partners suit,
unless you are sure, by his play or dunn
my's holding. that he cannot make the suit
and does not care to have 1t returned.
The best general rule for q discard is
from weakness both in a no trump and In
a declared trump hand-using the reverse
discard when you either have to or care
to discard from strength. discarding first
high card and then a low one.
Forcing Discards.
In a no trumper after having established
a suit make the entire length OF 1t before
opening another suit. Every discard costs
the adversary something and may be adj
vantageous to you-giving you valuable in
formation. If you are the dealer In de-
clared trump hand, and are left with
losing card and one or more trumps. lead
the trumps, forcing the adversaries to dis
card. Occasionally they will make an er-
ror and discard SO that your losing card
becomes good.
Throwing the Lead.
It sometimes happens, toward the end of
a hand, that you are left with ace and
queen Of q suit. or king and one low. To
be obliged to lead away from either of these
is distinctly advantageous. If you can
force some one else to lead up to you, you
will secure two tricks in the first instance
and one in the second
BY keeping careful run Of the cards you
can OFTEN locate winning card In your
left hand opponents hand; by leading that
suit you will put him in the lead and force
him to lead your suit to you. thereby gain
ing a trick. When you are the dealer and
dummy has declared no trump, II you know
that your right hand adversary has no more
Of his partners suit. 1t will do no harm and
Is generally wise to put him in the lead
and make him open some suit up to the
dummy.
In q declared trump hand, when dummy.
as your adversary, has the trump strength
and losing cards which you can surely win,
1t is often advantageous to lead trump
yourself and thus compel him to lead your
suits to you.
When the dealer leads a suit In which
dummy Is weak it often happens that you
as fourth hand player should overtake your
partners trick Gf you can do 80 without
parting with high honor) and lead the
suit back up to dummy's weakness.
Should you allow your partner to hold
the trick he might be obliged to continue
the suit up to the dealers strength.