Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-29
BRIDGE TALKS
NJ MRS. JOHN MUNcx. IN.

Continuing the play Of declarer:
When declarer has suficient length In
trumps in the weak hand, 30 that In
exhausting his opponents trumps he viii
have enough left to do any necessary
attempt to run, thereby preventing tho
possibility of an overruh or over
trumping by his opponent. For exam
pie, the closed hand contains the zee,
king, queen and one small card IN the
trump suit and the king, queen and two
small clubs. The dummy contains four
small trumps and the ace and one small
such q combination OF cards, declaYeY
would naturally plan to run one Of tho
losing clubs, but this should not be done
until trumps have been led three times,
due to the fact that one Of the winning
cards in clubs might be trumped BY hB
opponent.
one Of the most important plays de-
clarer has to make at times is one that
is called finding the hidden entry" In
the dummy. Even the best players are
sometimes faced with q dummy that
does not contain a card which VIII take
q trick. With such a holding, no mat
ter how much he should wish to lead
from dummy up to the high cards in
his own hand, he Is unable to do 50.
OF course, when the dummy hand con-
tains an ace or the king Of suit, the
ace Of which is held in the closed hand,
| it contains an entry, so that should de-
clarer wish to lead from dummy 1t re-
quires no particular display Of ability
to win q trick In dummy and then
lead the desired suit to the closed hand.
Many times the closed hand will con-
| tain high card combinations, to which
| it will be necessary to lead twice from
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suit, and sometimes declarer even wishes
to lead three times from dummy.
Therefore, the most desired of dummies
Is one that contains many entries.
When dummy does not contain Suf-
| fcient number of obvious entries, 1t Is
often possible for declarer to play his
own hand in such manner as to make
some card in dummy an entry which
Is not an obvious winner. This is what
Is meant by finding hidden entry. In
other words, declarer has made 1t an
entry. Naturally, these entries vary, but
there are a few types with which every
player should be familiar, and once you
understand the principles which under
lie the making of these entries you will
have little trouble in placing the lead
in dummy whenever it is possible to do
so. The simplest way to make good an
additional card in dummy is to play an
unnecessarily high card, or cards, from
the closed hand. For instance, in play
ing a no-trump dummy holds king,
jack and 9-spot of a suit, and the de-
clarer holds in the closed hand the ace,
queen, 10-spot and 8-spot. If the lead
be in the closed hand and declarer
wants to lead another suit three times
from dummy, he should be careful and
not lead his ace until he has obtained
his three leads from dummy, which
would mean that he should lead the
queen from his own hand. take it with
the king in dummy; lead the 10-spot
from his own hand and take it with the
Jack in dummy; then lead the 0-spot
from his own hand and take 1t with the
9-spot In dummy. This would give him
the necessary three leads to the closed
hand, and he would still have the ace
of the suit.