Evening star., 1936-10-11

MR.. JACOBY opened with a bid of
one spade With no score, Mr..
Schenken would merely have passed,
but with part score Of so he realized
that it was quite probable he and his
partner could make a contract of two
respond with one no-trump with q
singleton club. and hence bid two
hearts. Mr.. Jacoby's next bid was
four clubs and now Schenken realized
that he was in trouble. OF course he
could not pass. He felt that re-
turn to four spades would surely be
followed by bid of five or six spades
by Mr.. Jacoby, and was certain that
if he rebid his hearts, Mr. Jacoby
would mark him with = better suit
than five-to-the- jack. Accordingly.
Mr.. Schenken finally chose what
seemed to him the least of all evils
and bid four diamonds.
Mr.. Jacoby now went into a long
huddle and finally decided to bid only
four hearts. his reasoning being as
follows: If Mr.. Schenken had a good
hand, he would bid over the four
hearts, whereupon he Jacoby) could
60 on to six or seven as he desired.
But Mr.. Schenken might have
heart suit, in which case it would
probably be impossible to make q
slam.
Mr.. Schenken naturally passed the
four hearts and fulfilled his contract.
In subsequent discussion Mr.. Schen-
ken asked what Mr.. Jacoby would
have done If he (Schenken) had bid
four hearts, and Mr.. Jacoby naturally
replied. II would have jumped right
to six hearts"
ONE of the most common sign-offs
occurs when partner opens with
one heart or one spade, you respond
with two clubs or two diamonds and
he rebids to two no-trump. If you
then rebid your original suit to three,
you are making definite sign-off and
saying in effect. Partner, although
you naturally thought my first re-
sponse was a constructive bid, 1t was
in reality q rescue bid. I have q
fairly long suit, but it is not solid and
I hold no re-entry. You should there
fore pass unless you hold all suits
well stopped plus at least high
honor and one in my suit"
The type Of hand on which a player
should make such a sign-of would be
something like six to king queen and
nothing else With such a hand the
player would naturally wish to play
the contract at his own suit, which
must be the safest declaration for the
combined hands. However, If his suit
be as good as six to an ace-queen-
jack or six to king jack with one
sure re-entry, instead of signing of he
should contract for three no-trump
over his partners rebid to two no.
trump.
Question: Recently I was defending
three no-trump contract. Dummy
held seven diamonds to the ace-king-
queen and no re-entry. I held three
to the jack. Declarer made his con-
tract by running seven diamond tricks.
However, 1t occurred to me that I
,, could have beaten the contract by
deliberately revoking on the third
diamond lead. This would have cost
the declarer four tricks in the play
and, in spite Of the two-trick penalty
for the revoke, he would have been
down two. I wonder If it would have
been proper for me to revoke delib-
erately?"
Answer-Decidedly not. The penal
ties provided for violation Of rules are
intended to cover only those instances
where the rule is broken accidently. A
deliberate violation Is unethical.
Copyright. 1850
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