Sept. 4, 1885.] 



KNOWLEDGE ♦ 



Scoro: l-B. \ : Y Z, i. 



NOTES OX THE I'LAY. 



N'oTi;. Card unclerlined takes 

 lirk, and card ne,\t below li-:i'l 



□HHi 



<? <P ni , :,;, , v,l;„l, ,. very likely to 



partner to go on with the next Diamond (losing or winning), Z 

 would have held the game sure. But 



II. Luckily 1' holds the winning Diamond ; so that, 

 12 and 13. Leading up to Z's tenace, Y-Zviin the trick and the 

 game. 



'■I',,... ::'ii !i ■ ,,a- Z III I 'i ■ :ibove game, and "Cavendish's" 

 failni, liool, was.B. In " Card Essays, ' 



CavMM I i.mnt of the game, and of his 



fat 111 I iij the result— pride in his son's 



play, lie assumes, however, that the 



gr,ni"' ■ , ill.- game. ("Of course it did, of 



coiii-i ■I'll); while James Clay greatly 



adn.ii i I , , -|,a-Ie King. Yet in reality, as 



MoLii', .nil'' could have been more safely 



. ■ ; I , . -, ai.'l w.is endangered by the 



bail 





if h 





long w 



led fron 



ing the su 



3 I + I ^m !+_J-| ™l' from IW " 



□ The return of the''tn 

 to Z's strength was tl 

 play, especially at the 

 trick 3, £ and iTknow 



s is fess likely. 



int nine trumps at 



Ji and Z. y can 



lold no other trump but the Five. 



' " trump lead up 



therefore bad 



After 



know that all the 



had 

 ■ii.id ruffed at 

 K o _', 1 !ii II -ii lil Spade, and 

 ..,i„ u,., ,>,.ao., .\.;u, to play his 

 nut ruff. But at trick eight, 

 iiild have led the lowest of his 

 lat Z might ruff (for Y knows 

 the game is lost): and whether 

 imond J^should have ruffed. The 



iL'th and 13th to Z'a major tenace in trumps ; 

 all this is sur^j, because A certainly does not hold the Diamond 

 Nine (see trick 7). 



The game is also sure (apart, of course, from the enemy liolding 

 the Spade Ace, in which case nothing can save it) if Z discards 

 Club Ten at trick 8. The tricks would then fall as follows :— 



This, undoul 



his I 



, after Y had erred by 



After throw I ~;:iile King, and with it the only 



sure paths to \ i' I ■.. . i : ■'}<^d badly in the grand coiijj at 



tricks. It \\ii^ la' ' ii'.i I ' 1. . rssarj- ; it endangered his game. 

 If Thad not held the Diamond 8— and there was nothing to show 

 he held it — the grand coup at trick 9 would have lost an otherwise 

 sure game. The game should have closed as follows:— 



s after trick seven. For anything Zknew up to trick 

 trump would capture the enemy's winning Diamond, 



