Evening star., 1933-11-14

your suit-lacEing this, he must bid only
two no trumps at first, and jump later
if it seems advisable or necessary. From
the fact that the responder could not
Jump in your suit or in another suit
his hand Is marked as being of the
short-suited type The fact that he
has no long suit to work with implies
some playing limitations; the fact that
he announces tremendous high-card
strength in all unbid suits, and also a
fit in your suit. means that there can
be no duplication Of values and no
shortage of mutual re-entries in this
combination of 26 cards Do your re-
bidding in terms either of high cards or
of suit-length. Forget about duplication
when you hear this inspiring response,
and ask yourself only this question
Can I eliminate losers from my part
ner's hand? If so, how?"
Use Inference and Visualize Your
Partners High Cards.
Holding:
a3,. SR; Aa1x kioxx 81. 81. 4 lO1H
you bid a spade-a minimum hand but
good bid because of the fine heart
support. If your partners response
is three no trumps. you have no rebid,
and must pass. Had he bid three hearts
or diamonds, you could respond very
constructively and optimistically as you
eliminated club-losers. AS it is your
singleton viii not help in view OF the
nature of your partners slam try-three
no trunps. If you held four primary
tricks, or If your two tens were jacks
and you had A B 10 in spades, you
should bio four no trumps. You must
not bid four in four-card suit as your
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card suit Tor two 1lve-card suits If you
bid q different suit secondarily) and
be completely misled as to the number
of losers which you will enable him to
discard from his own hand. There
fore. when you have no five-card
suit. and hold less than four primary
tricks, you can accept the slam-try only
If you have some additional jacks which
will have the effect of definitely setting
up thirteener in at least one and prob
ably two short suits. On this bidding.
you can with this hand be sure that
your partner holds king-queen of dia-
monds and ace-queen of hearts. Jacks
here will thus eliminate possible losers.
One or other opponent Is likely to hold
four cards of each suit on this deal.
Assume 1t, anyway.
When You Have Five Card Suit
Bid four in it over your partners three
no-trump response. You know he has a
high honor in 1t and by telling him that
your suit is OF five cards you tell him
right away where he can park losers.
Do this even if your hand was shaded
to two and half primary tricks be-
cause of aggressive major suit distri-
button. For example, with
s1s. Ri a A J q To- loxx 81 ci. Sx 9x
rebid in the form of four hearts. II he
bids four no trumps, now bid five spades.
This Is a constructive rebid justif1able
only in view of the terrific strength
promised by your partners first re-
sponse. He Is possibly hanging back
only because he is doubtful of the spade
situation. He may have K @ 8 x. Your
late spade bid will eliminate definite
losers for him and probably enable him
to know that he can run off nine tricks
in the major suits. Now he can count
his losers exactly, and Immediately bid
the full value of your combined hands.
Slam May Be Bid in q Suit.
He may have reason now to bid the
slam In your suit instead OF In no trumps
six or seven hearts or spades. Spades
would be ideal, as it Is unlikely on this
hand that they are held SO against you,
and you can now use your heart suit
probably 5-3 In the two hands-for dis
cards, and make one spade (if not two)
separately by ruff, and still draw all
the trumps.
tCopyright 1933)
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