Evening star., 1933-10-08
No Reasonable Game Chance
Need Ever Be Missed.

games, not 20 extra points here and
there on close hands"
No Reasonable Game Chance
Need Ever Be Missed.
The facts are that Sims players are
enabled to bid for many games that
elude the exponentS of other theories.
MY system has proved even more eftec-
tive In rubber play than in tournament
play. Furthermore, in those team Of
four matches which are played under
total point" scoring-that Is, under
virtually the same conditions as rubber
play, except that two games do not
combine to make rubber-the Sims
teams consistently win by larger rela-
tive margins than when board a
match" scoring is employed. You can
not be missing many feasible games
when results like these are regularly
obtained. My system is expressly de-
signed to bring in every reasonable
game. The preparatory work on the
first two rounds is to insure against
you do cross the Rubicon-let us use
this term for making bid which takes
or drives the bidding beyond the level
Of two in a Suit-you are headed for
game contract in certainly five cases
out of six BY refraining from unsound
early forces, we make it So much easier
to continue to game when, despite
minimum responses, we feel justified IN
going beyond the two level. You re-
member that when the bidding has
been "one no trump, two no trumps"
a game contract is now inevitable (the
original bid having been made by
dealer or second hand). Similarly.
when suit bid has started the pro-
ceedings, the bid that takes the con-
tract beyond the two level is almost an
assurance that game is to be bid. Once
the danger of misflt has been elm
mated, believe games should be bid
freely whenever the sign-off has not
appeared to show minimum values and
warn you not to cross the Rubicon.
Have You Been Undertaking?
# you are seldom defeated in game
contracts you are undoubtedly under
bidding, and to a serious extent. Bid
for the doubtful games courageously.
The ones you will win-whether because
everything went right or because the
defense slipped up-will more than Off
set the occasions on which you are
down SO or 100 instead of being plus 80.
The penalties may be more frequent
than those you are now accustomed to
Il doubt it,, but so will the games.
And remember this-when you are set
it will seldom be for more than one
trick and practically never more than
two. Again, these contracts will very
seldom be doubled; the proportion Of
successful contracts doubled will be al
most as high as those that are undou-
bled. This security Is provided you be-
cause you will make these light game
bids only when you are sure that you
are not in misf1t declaration-you
ydI1 MT ho r,,inpd from the start as
soon as you see your dummy. You will
be set only because essential illnesses
lose or suits absolutely refuse to break
or to set up for you. When you are not
in a misflt your opponents can seldom
know when to double or not. Most Sims
players complain that their game bids
even the light ones-are too seldom
doubled. They get too few opportu-
&ities to redouble.
Xoa, Too, Can Have This Experience.
IN the last six or eight months We
have examined about 600 hands played
Gy our teams Of four Ia national and