Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1937, Page 34

D—10 Winning Contract BY THE FOUR ACES. (David Burnstine, Merwin D. Maler, Oswald Jacoby. Howard Schenken, world's leading team-of-four, inventors of the i other system i Forcing Bids. ODAY the man who takes up contract has probably never | play.d auction bridge at all But there was a time, not many | years back, when most people start- | system that has beaten every n existence.) ner now raises him to four or to bid four diamonds if his partner bids three Of course some of our the opening bidder immediately bid three diamonds pver the two ‘no trump?” es no-trump. readers will ask, “Why doesn't The answer to this is that he wi THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, JULY 25, D. C, 1937—PART TWO. to give the proper distributional pic- ture of his hand as simply as possible. By rebidding to three spades and showing diamonds at a later stage, he is clearly indicating five spades and four diamonds. (Copyright, 1937.) The Four Aces will be pleased to an- swer letters {rom readers if a stamped ent). self-addressed envelope is i) closed with each communication. desire the pocket outline of Aces' system of contract bridge, < your reauest a stamped (3-cent), addressed, large-size envelope to (he Four Aces. Inc, 130 West Forty-second stveef. New York City. and you wiil rec outline without any char article in this series morro PARK CONDEMNATION SUITS TO BE ARGUED Attorneys to Challenge ‘“Good Faith” of Board in Seeking ‘Tracts Near Luray. Special Dispatch to The Star. LURAY, Va, July 2¢.—Attorneys here Monday will argue before Judge H. W. Bertram the legality of con- demnation proceedings now being brought, under the park condemnation act to condemn for park purposes land | near Luray. They say they will ques- tion the ““good faith” of the petitioning commission in declaring the land is for park purposes. No statement has been made by Conservation and Development Com- mission officials or by park officials as to the purpose for which the land is wanted, other than that it is for park purposes. Current rumor in Luray is that the land is for park headquarters. Pollowing the argument before Judge Bertram, the court will pro- ceed with the hearing of five con- tested cases. Two have been granted Jury trials, while three will be heard before Judge Bertram. The contes- tants are John G. Bradley, Elmer Judd, J. 8. Judd, R. R. Beahm and Vivian Beahm. 8ix uncontested tracts of land were condemned in June. Dean of Jersey Dies. 8T. HELIER, Channel Islands, July 24 (®).—Very Rev. Samuel Palle, 83, dean of Jersey since 1906, died yes- terday. T BAGHDAD STILL STRANGE | process. The silk shops are a mass ~ of color. Bales of colorful silk tempt | the Christian, Jewish and Moslem ” women alike. Izars, the rich silk ar= and the glamour that has always been | ments worn, have thick, heavy m,’ém associated with this “Arabian Nights” | wee ; city still holds a fascination for all | jpreag, - S0 Silver o oxidized visitors. In its streets are to be seen all the color of complexion that dis- tinguishes races and the distinct cos- tumes of the Moslem, the Bedouins, Persians, Shites, Sunnis and Iragis. .JERUBALEM, July 24 —Baghdad Street Car Gates. Pedestrians from street cars often find themselves in danger. Rapidly- In the little shops craftsmen toil as | approaching motor vehicles starils silversmiths, coppersmiths and ‘he |and befuddie them. Giv them time potter turns out tne beautiful green | to adjust themselves before passing pottery obteined by a special secret | Give them A break. i fng to learn contract had already played a great deal of auction and were merely shifting to & new game. In those days contract bidding was almost’ entirely a matter of experi- mentation. However, there was one thing that the more intelligent neo- phytes learned almost instantly— namely, the need for one or more | forcing bids, which partner would rec- ognize as & demand on him to keep the bidding open, irrespective of his holding. For a long while. of course, certain | Players insisted on following what | they called a “common sense” system | of employing no forcing bids whatso- ever. We could never see any common rense in a player refusing to take ad- vantage of his opportunities. For in- stance, the following hand is a fine example of the lack of value of “com- mon sense” bidding at contract. Your | partner opens with one diamond. You | hold: | Spades A K x x X | Hearts, A K X X X Diamonds, x Clubs, K x 1f you are not employing forcing bids, you are immediately helpless, | since you must, of course, jump to | game. But if you bid four hearts, maybe your partner holds Spades, Q J X X Hearts, x Diamonds, A X X X X Clubs, K Q x He will have to pass your four- heart bid, and you will probably make it. But seven spades is every bit as easy and possibly an easier contract : to fulfill. 3 1 . \ Or, if you happen to guess four \ Corset Sale! In Corsets #pades as the game contract to bid, | and Girdles 1 ° g gEa. he may be found to have heart sup- | port and a singleton spade. | Incidentally, from time to time | we still meet a pair who insist they | play no forcing bids, but we find that | @ Beautiful Rengo Belt Brocade Corsettes! @ "K' Brocaded Corsettes and Girdles! @ Redfern Voile Corsettes and Girdles! —A charming assortment of corsettes and girdles, and although you’ll not find every size in every style, you will - when they hold that particular hand | find every style in the assortment. A good reason to and partner opens with one diamond, such players bid two spades; and, shop early! 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It was necessary to find a middle ground. | By 1933 we had decided just where the proper middle ground should: lie, | and produced our theory of forging | bids as one of the basic principles | of the Four Aces system. While this theory may not be perfect, at least we are gratified to find that | now, four years later, we are still able | to use it .without any change what- soever, and in the meanwhile Fly | Culbertson and most other writers | have also done us the honor of adopting it without change. | As a first step in our theory, we divided all forcing bids into two classes: (A) the game force, and | (b) the temporary force. Once a| game force is made, the partnership is committed either to contract for & game or slam, or-to double the opponents for a penalty if they deem | that more profitable. ‘The temporary force, on the other | hand, merely - compels partner to| respond once and, unless followed by | other forcing bids, may be dropped &t any time. The following are the game forc- ing bids of the Four Aces system: 1. Any opening bid of two in a suit. 2. Any jump bid by original bid- der or partner. 3. Any cue-bid. The preceding is really simple, and | there is no reason why a player, | even though he be an utter begin- ner, should be unable to learn and | follow the above. Yet, every now and then we see a situation where the | bidding proceeds: One spade, pass, two | no-trump, pass, three spades, all | pass; or, one club, pass, one spade, pass, two no trump, pass, three clubs or three spades, all pass. | Invariably the excuse of the player | who has first bid two no-trump and | then passed is, “Well, partner, you gave me a signoff, and all I had is | a mere two no-trump bid.” What difference does that make? The fact that you are willing to make a game forcing bid at one time should tell your partner that you intend to keep on to game, regardless of what he responds. Let us just consider the first in- stance, in which the bidding has been: Omne spade, two no-trump, three spades. The exact significance of the three-spade bid in this situation is as follows: (1) The opening bid- der is definitely interested in game, but wishes his partner to choose be- tween four spades and three no-trump | for the final contract; or (2) the opening bidder intends to play the hand at four spades, but does not | Wwish to jump immediately, since that would indicate more strength than he holds; or (3) the opening bidder has a very strong hand and intends to follow his three-spade bid by a slam invitation on the next round. * Examples of three such hands are &s follows! -9 _Hand No. 1—Opening bidder holds— Spades—K Q x x x Hearts—x Diamonds—A x x x " Clubs—K J x High card value—8!2. 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