Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1937, Page 37

Winning BY THE FOUR ACES win D. Msier, Oswald Jacoby. Howard Schenken. world's jeading : gt’x‘z‘afn’}f'}fié:flr’n e e Tt fas Seaten every other system in evistence.) Flaws in Your Bidding. AVING recently concluded s series of articles on modern bidding, we intend to present a few articles on the more common types of bidding errors. Some of our readers will find that they don't make any of these mistakes; none will make all of them. .Further- more, in many instances, when we do |- i) have to be an awfully long one | hit on a mistake that a certain reader,| makes, he will say, “Perhaps that is a mistake, but I have to bid that way with the partners I have.” In some instances that will be true, but even then it is important for him to know that he is doing something which, in general, is wrong, so that when he plays with other partners he can leave the mistakes (or adjustments) out of his bidding. As a starter in fundamental bidding errors we have the indiscriminate use of the one no-trump response.# We ‘will not bother with the so-called nega- tive one no-trump, in which, holding Spades KxXXxxX Hearts x Diamonds K x x Clubs X X X you respond with one no-trump to partner’s bid of a suit. Practically no one uses that terrible bid any more. Spades x x Hearts K J x x Diamonds K x Clubs x x x OUR partner opens with one club. You haven't much of a hand, but 1t is obviously too strong to consider passing. Therefore, you should re- | spond, and the response should not be | one no-trump. Suppose your partner has a minimum type hand with a secondary heart or spade suit—if you respond with one no-trump, he has to pass and you will be in the wrong contract. But suppose you make the correct response of one heart. If he has a secondary heart suit, he raises you; if he has a secondary spade suit he may now bid it at the level of one. Or suppose your left-hand opponent gets into the bidding and becomes Contract of two.) Anyway, your partner re- sponds with one no trump, and 95 per cent of the players promptly bid two spades. But we wouldn’t. Why not pass? In all probability your hand will take the same number of tricks at spades or no trump. Why try for eight instead of seven? Of course, the opponents may now run & con- cealed club or diamond suit, but it to hurt you at one no trump undou- | bled. UESTION—“Both sides are vul- nerable. I was second hand and | held: . Spades AK9T5 Hearts 8 Diamonds K J 4 3 Clubs AQ12 “The dealer bid a heart. I over- called with one spade. Third hand raised his partner to two hearts. My | partner passed, and dealer now bld‘ three hearts. What was my correct | bid in that position?” Answer: In this case, as in many instances when you fail to make the correct bid at your first opportunity, you have no correct bid at your next turn. With your very strong hand you should have made a take-out| double of the two-heart bid. But, in- | stead, you made & mere one-spade | overcall, and now you are fixed. If| you rebid to three spades you lose all chance of finding out if your partner | has some such holding as six dia- monds to the queen, in which case | you will have no play for three spades but a very good play for five diamonds. If you bid four diamonds, you have taken the contract to the four level and may find yourself doubled im- mediately with disastrous results. And | at the same time, for all you know, | your partner has six clubs. If you | pass, which is undoubtedly your best | course following your initial mistake, you run the risk that the oppo- nents will now bid and make four hearts, whereas you and your part- | ner may well have game in one of | | the other suits. [ (Copyright, 1937.) | declarer; if you have responded with one no-trump, -your partner will have The Four Aces will be pleased to answer Do idea of what to lead; if you have | letters from readers it a stamped (2-cent) responded with one heart, you have | each communication shown him the correct opening. The actuel reason why many players self-addressed envelope is inclosed with It vou desire the | pocket outline of The Four Aces' system of contract bridge. send with your reauest a stamped (3-cenf). self-addressed. large- yespond with one no-trump with | 8ize envelope to The Four Aces. Inc.. 130 hands of this type is that they like to play the hands, and say to them- selves: “Probably no-trump will be | the final declaration. I'd better bid ! it.” But usually their excuse for this bid is that if they respond with one heart their partner will mark them with more strength than they really have. Maybe this is true in occas- sional instances, but not generally. ‘Why any one should decide that a bid of one heart, which is lower than one no-trump, should necessarily show greater strength than a bid of one no-trump is & mystery to us. It doesn't with us, and it doesn't with any good plavers. AS A corollary to the indiscriminate 3 no-trump response, we have the indiscriminate rebid when partner re- £ponds with one no-trump, made mere- | 1y because a player knows that his part- ner's no-trump .may be almost any- ;thing and wants o get away from it. For example, we recall a rather amaz- | street one-way south was to improve ing hand we witnessed recently in which the bidding started, “one heart, pass, one no-trump, pass, two spades . ..” We shall not bother with what finally happened, although we can as- sure you that the player who bid first the heart and then two spades did not come off very successfully. His hand was: Spades A 10 x x Hearts A J 10 x Diamonds K x x West Forty-second street, New York City. and vou will receive an outline without anv charge. The next article in this series will appear tomorrow. | FIGHT ON ONE-WAY | STREET IS FUTILE Traffic Bureau Refuses Request of | Southeast Council Holding Change Betters Traffic. An effort to restore Eleventh street | southeast from North Carolina avenue | at Lincoln Park to South Carolina avenue from one-way to two-way traf- | fic apparently has reached a stale- | mate. In reply to a letter sent the traffic director last month the Southeast Council was advised that the prine cipal reason for making Eleventh traffic conditions and eliminate hazards around Lincoln Park. The arrangement now in effect has traffic moving the same way that it moves around a circle. Such a system fis now in operation at Stanton Park and has been at Lincoln Park since June 3 last year. The change was made because of traffic congestion at North Carolina avenue and Eleventh street and the difficulty pedestrians had in crossing. Clubs x x His reason for making the second | bid lay in the fact that he did not like to let his partner play one no-trump | when he had nothing in clubs. We | admit that no-trump might be set, but | why this player should arbitrarily as- sume that because he had nothing in clubs, his partner also had nothing, | is beyond us. And finally, his two- spade bid constituted what is known as & skip-level-shift, since by bidding it he skipped the two-heart level. Hence in all likelihood he might be | forcing his partner to return to hearts | at the level of three, and the last thing this player would want, in our opinion, would be to play a three- heart contract when his partner could not raise his heart bid in the first place nor bid a suit of his own. In- cidentally, we would have opened with one spade (four aces biddable suit), and passed the one no-trump. ERE is a rather close situation. You open the bidding with one spade, holding: Spades AK Qx x Hearts A x Diamonds x X x Clubs x x x Your partner responds with one Mo trump. (Incidentally, while we are dead set against one no trump re- | &ponses to one club openings except | in rare instances, with a great many hands you can make no response but one no trump to your partner's open- ing one spade, the reason being that your hand is not strong enough to warrant bidding & suit at the level Special for This Week!" Folding Complete With LENSES —This low price includes white gold-filled, beauti- fully engraved folding single-vision lenses. 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