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/ dealt and bid a spade, A and Y
passed. h went no trump and A took him
out with two hearts. which held.
1t Is Fundamental principle in all
! forms OF whist and bridge that force
hurts the strong trump hand n there Is
anything in that hand to be made. There
fore the last thing a player with strong
trump hand should do is 10 put himself
deliberately In position TO be forced. Y
made this mistake
! Instead OF starting out with a small
spade he led the singleton club Dummy
won with the queen. At one table the de-
clarer saw his chance to make this suit by
getting the trumps out at once and led the
| king. This would not have accomplished
anything II u had been alive To the situa-
ton. but he was not. and unthinkingly led
back the club. forcing his partner and
killing the whole hand
| led small diamond and the ace won
the nine. The eight OF trumps was passed
! up but that made no difference, as the
/ top trump Is the only possible trick left
I Z r or n, because e will discard the top
| club on the diamond or the trump and A
viii make all the clubs. The force killed
~
! Let the original lead. however bad.
| stand, and IL should have been clear to u
as soon as he saw dummys short heart
suit that must be long in trumps. To
force him was folly. II the club was
short A is long in clubs and very short
in diamonds and spades rs play was
TO open his Ave card suit the moment
he got in with the ace OF trumps Now
| Y jumps AT the second trump lead and gets
the first force on A. After that the con-
tract Is set any way plays the hand.
Try IT,
An original spade lead from VS. hand
| brings the same result. setting the con-
tract There Is nothing that the text
books have - often called attention to
as the fact that II two players have
each i've trumps. and the one with the
lead can get suit cleared to force with.
he will be the one with the odd trump at
the end to bring that suit in.
Dummy would put on the spade king
and lead the king OF trumps Reading
the situation and counting 4 for -four
| spades and length In hearts. z will not
return the spade, and let trump OF
discard as better suits him, but will start
the diamonds. Again Y wins the next
trump lead and gets the force on 4. set.
ting the contract as before.
At one table, the bidding being tn,
same. won the club lead and put him.
self In with diamond. 50 as to lead the
eigh, Of trumps and hnesse IT,. SAVING
his king. led the diamond. correctly
reading his partner for length in trumps
and the moment A ruined gave up ths
king to lubbock
dummy won tne next trump leAd Win
the king. but Y had three trumps against
AS two by that time. and although
dummy forced with a club Y forced
A in return with the diamonds. 80 tn,
contract was set on that line OF play.
| At another table A played to run tn.
hand out, after winning the club. which
seems to have been the almost universe
, opening in this hand 4 won the dia
| mond. put dummy In with spade anC
trumpet another diamond. Then a clut
forced Y, who led a third diamond Now
| on a trump lead the king falls to IN,
ace and overtrumps 4. so that u makes
the jack Of spades and ten OF diamonds
at the end, setting tho contract that way
In other words the hand Is piano for
| Y and Il to set the contract Anything
| more that and e can get out ~ it thar
| the odd trick Is a gift. due To ignoranc,
| OF the first principles OF opening leads
The last paragraph on page 1873 OF
| "Whitehead's Conventions calls specia
! attention to the error,
These mistakes In disregardng con
| ventioualitles are expensive in duplicate
so they are probably just as had in th'
| ordinary rubber. Here Is an example o
an unwarranted and totally useless bic
chat cost 400 points The deal was No
20 In the same duplicate match as tn,
| hand lust given.