The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-16
PROBLEMS FOR sun READERS

PROBLEMS FOR sun READERS
A TRAP AND A WINNING PLAY
FOR BRIDGE SOLYERS.
telegraph Poles and the Bet on the
Trolley Csr Diai-IAsson In Looking
Ahead At Cbcss-PuZzles In Figures
The majority OF those who sent in solu.
tons to bridge problem No. 10 gave l,
as their opinion that 1t was much easier
than several OF the problems that pre-
oeded 1t. Those who got 1t wrong, OF
sent in solutions which were confessions
that unless B trumped the spade 1t coulo
not be done, thought 1t much harder; ano
so 1t goes. ..
What makes such problems as this
appear easy to those that happen to hit
upon the key move for their first analy'
sis Is that they can hardly 60 wrong afteI
that. and tho correct opening from ~
hand. the losing trump, is rather too
prominent. because II is evident that
d Iuubt Ilhk0 tIldI 'tIuIlp anu tlu a.
must not make anything else.
2 leads the trump and Y discards the
eight Of hearts. AS best discard being
a small spade. B wins the trump anc
leads a diamond, compelling z TO put OF
the queen and to lead q spade.
On this trick B must discard a diamond
or two heart tricks will make against him
Y wins the spade trick and leads the act
Of hearts, compelling A to let 60 a dia
mond and leave his, jack ~unguarded
That settles A. Now Y comes along
with the ton OF spades, and that settle:
b. because B has to do bis guessing before
z discards. .. e.. r .
The trap in this problem IL the spade
lead from rs hand to force BIS high trump
But B need not trump the spade. rs IN
can well afford to discard a diamond and
let Y lead.
The opinions expressed about this
problem in answer to the suggestion
that solvers should say WHISTLER they
thought 1t the work Of q novice or ar
expert are various. A correspondent In
Frankfort, KY. writes:
Il got up in the middle Of the night
onoe, thinking l had No. Is solved, only
to find that I was wrong. l gave up
No. IA after working at it from time tc
time for two weeks. and No. Is has mt
guessing yet. . 1t looks impossible; bu,
No. 10 did not take me moro than a few
minutes. Looks like an amateurs COM
position
Here are some Of the others: shade
by q novice, / should say, as only the key
move Is pretty, Does not seem to b.
the work Of q novice, because there ID
only one sound opening lead. but there
Is another lead, the spade three, which
to A and b. The one trick, in trumps
that Alb must win is 80 obvious at the
first glance that I should say this was
the work Of a novice up to the marl
OF an expert, il not the work of one.
.While the trap Of the spade lead Is a good
me-. the losing trump Is too prominen!
to rank this as an experts composition.
SHOULD judge this to be the work Of
professional. because there is only one
key move and only one discard from "
hand, all the variations that follow de-
pending on the defence Hardly deer
enough for an expert composition "Evi.
IDENTIFY the work Of IN expert, and to me-
one OF the most difficult you have pub
lished. perhaps because ! spent so much
tune osIkul8 up tho ~iChe tiSe' =,
taking those that solved the problem and
those that did not. the majority was
found to be greatly in favor OF the novice
This should be encouraging for thoet
who are trying compositions Of their "
as No. 10 b the work Of n OF the mos
famous OF problem composec in thu
shares with ". H. Whitfield the reputation
Of being on scratch when II comes to the
problem game and who has Furnished
the problems for many OF the big prize
competitions in the English papers.
While No IS may not be one OF Mr.
BerRholt's best. 1t ID a fair sample OF hi
style and carries out his ideas Of the line.
these days THE Sun will give its readers
another from the same hand in order tc
see II they can pick out the solution al
easily as they did that to No. 10.
Correct solutions from Edward L.
Leeds. NJ B. B.. A. H McMartin. s, F
Barnett, E. H. Dwinell. F. H. Mills, H. E
W. H. X; Thaw, -Professor,' James A
j. B. CrandaIi. G. W, JiIes r. Gimbefnat
xxx A. c. Sigel. W. r., j. W. Bright
J.W. Cromwell. Jr.. W. H. R.. Chapman L
johnson. j. F. D.. Rougier Thorne, Arthur
Judd Ryan. A. D. Brooks. A W. Putnam
r. Crothers. Charles NJ. Saeesr. Walter
Andrews, A. R, Dunlap; E W.. Elkins
J.. W. Wortz. George p. .Britton. J. l.. B.
Edmonds Putney. DR.. Homer E. Smith
Mack j. q. W, Paul Dunbar. W. NJ
Bubier. A. ]. Strasburger. Loring Clarke
George T. Jurgens, s. p. II George w
Welsh. Theodore Fabritius. Victor Du
Pont. Jr., W. w. Dudley, H. B. L.. B. B
Osborn. r. Roy. James Hunter. 4; B
S. D. r., n. B. Bellamy. II. W. A., Ieoe
A. 2. Huntingdon, Mrs. George c. Flint
r. C. Hill, e. NJ. Dudley, Richard F. Hall
W. r. Mccoy, John s. Hills, Philip X
Meynen,- A. N. Onderdonk. Oscar Schoen'
herr, l.. G.. E., Frank l.. Rogers, DIR
George C. Bailey, E. w. Lambert, 8. r
Hemingway. E. n. Sproul, Alice A. c
MoKinnie, +. P. Maynard. T. j.. Werten'
baker, Arthur l.. Brown and Harry
Watkins.
while this looks like a good long list
missing from it three names that have
never sent In a wrong sd1ution before
the names Of three cracks. all OF whom
got stuck on the spade lead.
Here 10 something that seems to be the
work Of q composer who has a future
before him in the problem line. He say
he has been studying the hints on problem
composition which have been given II
this column and Ii trying to carry then
out. How far he has been successful
will be left to the solvers TO Judge. Here
Clubs are trumps and z is in the lead:
sRIpoI rsosLEs 90. ia.
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