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Frank Stewart's Bridge Club is no ordinary place. It is the regular haunt of a cast of somehow familiar players: Unlucky Louie, against whom no one ever makes a wrong bid or play; Grapefruit, a man with an unnaturally sour disposition; Cy the Cynic, who knows that the Fates will conspire against him whatever he does; Minnie Bottoms, who tends to mix up jacks and kings but always somehow finds the killing play by mistake; Will Rogers, who never met a hand he didn't like; Frank himself, whose dry wit will keep you coming back for more; and many others. Pick up bridge pointers, try the quizzes, and have a great time while you do it.

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Publié par	Master Point Press
Date de parution	11 janvier 2010
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781554943432
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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MASTER POINT PRESS · TORONTO
© 2003 Frank Stewart
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Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Frank Stewart 1946-
Frank Stewart’s Bridge Club/Frank Stewart
ISBN 978-1-55494-343-2 1. Contract bridge — Defensive play. 1 Title. GV1282.3 2.S835 2003 795.41’5 C2003-902596-9 Editor Ray Lee Cover and interior design Olena S. Sullivan/New Mediatrix Interior format and copyediting Deanna Bourassa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 07 06 05 04 03
Contents
PART ONE Winter
PART TWO Spring
PART THREE Summer
PART FOUR Fall
PART FIVE Winter
Foreword
You’ve made your first good move by buying this book. Let me tell you why. First and foremost are the hands, I call them “theme” hands; they are practical because they come up frequently. These hands, clearly explained, are perfect for the intermediate or advanced intermediate player wanting to move up a notch. (Lives there an intermediate player who doesn’t think of him or herself as an advanced intermediate player?) The hands are so good that I have committed the ultimate flattery, I have “lifted” several to use as examples in my classes.
As if this weren’t enough, the introductions to each column do credit to a standup comedian. Where Frank gets these opening salvos, I have no idea, but they are funny. This is not to mention the characters roaming around the pages. These are types we can remember from our own experiences. (I even recognized myself now and then!)
I was also impressed with the format. First you are presented with a number of two-handed problems, usually play problems, with the North-South hands shown. This eliminates the need to cover up the unseen hands where at times you can’t help but see a card or three. After you answer the problem (correctly of course), you can turn to a later page to check to see whether Frank was clever enough to come up with the same solution. If perchance there should happen to be a discrepancy, believe Frank.
If this book was meant to be both instructive and entertaining, as Frank hoped, put me down for an A+.
Eddie Kantar

Part 1 Winter 1. January 4 Tangled Webb East dealer N-S vulnerable

West leads the ten of spades. Plan the play. To Answer
1. January 4 Tangled Webb East dealer N-S vulnerable

Opening lead: ♠10
My bridge club has 600 members. We comprise plenty of nondescript Browns and Smiths, but, as you’d suppose, there are also a Mr. North and a Mrs. West — who always occupy their namesake seats. We have a Diamond, a Hart, a Deal and a Card, and there are fitting partnerships: Singleton-King and Long-Short. Dr. Bidwell is known for remorseless accuracy in the auction, and curmudgeonly old Mrs. Passmore is legendary for the soundness of her overcalls.
Then there is Tom Webb, known as ‘Tangle’, who seems to run into blocked suits more often than anyone else. As South, Tom won the second spade and started the clubs, intending to finesse through East as an avoidance play. But when he took the ace and led the jack, East alertly covered with the queen.
‘Tangle’ was entangled like a box of coat hangers. If he ducked to keep a link with his hand, East would run the spades. If instead South took the king and ten of clubs, he couldn’t get back for the other clubs. He’d have only eight tricks, and East would get in with the king of hearts to run the spades.
If you were South, could you get untangled and make 3NT?
South must win the third spade, pitching dummy’s queen of diamonds. He takes the A-K of diamonds and the ace of clubs and leads the jack of clubs. East must cover to cause a problem, and South takes the king. South can then discard the blocking ten of clubs on the jack of diamonds and run the clubs. To Question
2 January 8 Regular Partnerships South dealer N-S vulnerable

West leads the queen of spades. Plan the play. To Answer
2. January 8 Regular Partnerships South dealer N-S vulnerable

Opening lead: ♠Q
My club, like any other, has many regular partnerships: for instance, a doctor-pharmacist pair who do well (except when the pharmacist can’t read the doc’s signals). In this deal, North-South were a dentist and a manicurist we call ‘Tooth and Nail’ because that’s how they argue.
Tooth, South, ruffed the first spade in dummy, drew trumps and tried a club finesse with the queen. West took the king and got another club later to beat the slam. The argument began immediately.
Tooth: ‘What kind of bid was six hearts? What if I’d had two low clubs?’
Nail: ‘When you didn’t double four spades, I thought you had little strength in spades and therefore something in clubs.’
Tooth: ‘Bid five diamonds over four spades. Let me decide.’
Nail: ‘I wanted to be in six hearts. Why dally?’
Nobody realized declarer could Nail down the slam by throwing one club from dummy at Trick 1 and another on the king of spades later. And that’s the whole Tooth and nothing but. To Question

Bidding Quiz

YOU HOLD: ♠ A 7 6 4 ♥ 5 ♦ Q 10 7 6 ♣ 10 9 8 4. Your partner opens one heart, you respond one spade and he then bids two diamond. The opponents pass. What do you say?

ANSWER: Pass. Since partner did not jump to three diamonds, he has fewer than 18 points, and game is almost impossible. If you raise to three diamonds, partner will expect about 11 points from you and will go on to game (and go down) if he has 15 or more points.
3. January 10 Bald Statements South dealer Both vulnerable

West leads the queen of diamonds. South takes the ace, cashes the jack of clubs, leads a club to the ace and continues with the queen. How do you defend? To Answer
3. January 10 Bald Statements South dealer Both vulnerable

Opening lead: ♦ Q
The club member we call ‘Grapefruit’ got his nickname not only for his eternally sour disposition but because his head is as bald as a mountaintop in January. ‘Some men wear their hair parted,’ is how Cy the Cynic puts it. ‘Grapefruit’s is de-parted.’
Grapefruit, West, led the queen of diamonds against South’s game. South won with the ace and could have cashed the A-K of trumps and started the clubs, hoping to discard two hearts before the defender with the missing high trump ruffed. But South had a different idea: he started the clubs at Trick 2.
On the third club, East ruffed with the deuce of trumps — and the defenders’ chances departed. South overruffed, drew trumps, got to dummy with the king of diamonds and threw hearts on the last two clubs for an overtrick. The bald facts, as Grapefruit pointed out in his usual acid tone, were that East must ruff the third club with the jack of trumps. South overruffs but still loses three hearts and a trump. To Question
Bidding Quiz

YOU HOLD: ♠8 4 3 ♥ 9 8 3 ♦ K 5 ♣A K Q 6 5. Your partner opens one diamond, you respond two clubs and he rebids two diamonds. The opponents pass. What do you say?

ANSWER: Raise to three diamonds, inviting game. Though partner may have been obliged to rebid a fivecard suit, you have no choice: a rebid of three clubs would promise longer clubs and wouldn't encourage him to bid game; a bid of 2NT would suggest strength in the unbid suits.
4. January 13 Cynical Outlook South dealer E-W vulnerable

West leads the queen of clubs. Plan the play. To Answer
4. January 13 Cynical Outlook South dealer E-W vulnerable

Opening lead: ♣Q
When a new member of my club asked me how Cy the Cynic got his nickname, I wrote down today’s deal, which I’d watched the day before.
Cy was South at one table of a team match. His game contract looked hopeless, but Cy ruffed the first club in dummy, led a heart to his queen, ruffed his king of clubs, won another heart finesse with the jack and cashed the ace. When hearts broke 3-3, Cy got back to dummy by ruffing the ace of clubs and led the thirteenth heart.
If East ruffed with the ace, Cy would throw a diamond, losing two trumps and a diamond. When East discarded, Cy threw a diamond. West ruffed, but Cy later crashed the defenders’ high trumps.
‘Well played,’ our new member remarked. ‘Surely his team gained points on that deal.’ ‘At the second table,’ I told him, ‘South won the first club with the king and led a trump. West for Cy’s team put up the king, and South lost a trump and two diamonds: a push.’
‘I begin to understand,’ said our newcomer. To Question
Bidding Quiz

YOU HOLD: ♠ A ♥ K 9 5 ♦ A 10 8 3 ♣ 7 6 5 3 2. Your partner opens one spade, you bid two clubs, he rebids two spades and you try 2NT. Partner next bids three hearts. What do you say?

ANSWER: Bid three spades or, with a timid partner, four spades. Partner has a minimum opening bid with six spades and four hearts. (If he had extra strength or only five spades, his second bid would have been two hearts.) Play in the 6-1 fit.
5. January 20 Wendy the Feminist East dealer E-W vulnerable

West leads the seven of spades, and dummy plays the three. How do you defend? To Answer
5. January 20 Wendy the Feminist East dealer E-W vulnerable

Opening lead: ♠7
Fireworks were expected when Cy the Cynic, who thinks a woman’s place is in the kitchen, opposed W