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strength : " but when he ti^als 

 he says, " I am strong enough to 

 play a forward game even without 

 your support, if you only bring in 

 trumps. B, in this case, has only 

 three probable tricks in trumps 

 and one in diamonds. 



2. B completes the signal ; A's 

 is established. Z has no more 



spades. 



3. A rightly leads his best 

 trump. Y, from his own hand, 

 knows that ii, ia all probability, 

 has the King ; for if A had the 

 King he would not have led the 

 Ten, and if Z had the King, be- 

 sides the trump card, B would 

 only have had small trumps, 

 headed by 8, from which he would 

 hardly have signalled. Y should 

 therefore have put on the Ace. 

 He gains nothing by this tenace 

 being led up to, for if he had 

 played the Ace, he would still 

 have been sure of the third round 

 of trumps. as eventually played. 

 Meantime he could have forced 

 his partner in Spades. 



5. Here i' plays very badly. 

 It is useless to lead from a long 

 suit at this stage of a game, in 

 which strength of trumps has been 

 declared against you. Z is not 

 likely to attribute strength to Y in 

 any other suit hut Clubs, even if 

 any harm could come, at this 

 critical part of the game, from 

 such a mistake. Leading Ace of 

 Diamonds to save the game would 

 have been sound play enough 

 though this might suggest length 

 in Diamonds : unless Z himself is 

 very strong in them, as Y knows 

 to be probable. But the force is 

 the correct play to save the game. 

 Of course Y knows that Z can 

 trump, the trump card not having 

 been played. 



7. Even now, leading the Dia- 

 mond Ace would save the game. 

 (As a matter of fact it would do 

 much more, as B holds four Dia- 

 monds ; but of this Y cannot be 

 assured. All he knows about 

 Diamonds is that A, who has discarded one, is short in that suit ; 

 so that B is almost certain to have one at least). But 1' blunders 

 on with his long suit, on the chance that Z holds the King, and that 

 B cannot ruff. B is much more likely, so far as Y can judge, to be 

 able to mff Diamonds than Clubs, for Y has two Diamonds and A 

 is short in them, leaving at least eight between B and Z ; whereas 

 r holds five Clubs, A from his discard certainly had at least three 

 Clubs originally, while B and Z have already played ono each, 

 leaving only three to be accounted for between B and Z. Besides 

 this, it is an even chance that A holds the King, not Z. 



8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13. Of course nothing can now be done. A 

 and jB make five by tricks, against T Z'a two by honours. 



If at trick 5 Y had played properly, the game would have 



Or " 



o^ol lo o 



C3 D6 UKii 

 C 5 I) ft D t 



A B only maklDg tho odd trit-k. 



Never be Too Sure.—" I onco lost five by cards when I held 

 Ace, King, and four small trump.". King and one Dimnond, King 

 and one Spade, and three small Clubs. It was my lead, and I led 

 a small trump. Arrange the cards in the various hands so as to 

 see how this happened, and could not bo prevented after I had led. 

 My partner had ono trump only." — Draysun's " Art of Practical 

 Whist." 



* The best, to show partner he haa entire command of tho suit. 



©\\x £6cS5 Column. 



By Mepuisto. 



GAMES BY COREESPONDEXCE. 



THESE games have an advantage not possessed by ordinary play, 

 in that the exhaustive analysis each move is subjected to, can 

 be recorded on paper actually as the game proceeds,: and at tho 

 finish of the game, provided both players do the same thing, avo 

 obtain a more complete commentary upon a game than can be 

 furnished by analysis, although the latter might be deeper. We 

 herewith give such a game, and hope its perusal will be interesting 

 to our readers. 



Since the publication of the games between our Chief Editor and 

 Chess Editor in our columns, two more games have been played 

 " even :" with the result that each won a game. The first of the 

 above games was a Gnioco Piano, in which Chess Editor had the 

 attack, and Chief Editor the defence. The former opened, as 

 usually in this opening, with 



, P to K4 9 Kt to KB3 



■ P to K4 "■ Kt to QB3 

 5 PtoQ4 g F takes P 



■ P takes P ■ B to KtSch 



P toB3 

 Kt to B3 



QKt takes B 



B takes Bch "' Kt takes KP 



B toB4 

 BtoB4 

 B toQ: 



Here Chess Editor halted, as, for tho sake of interest, he wished 

 to examine into the merits of 9. P to Q5, which latter move is also 

 mentioned in our analysis of tho Guioco Piano, p. 412. The con- 

 tinuation given there is — 



11. 



PtoQ6 J, Q takes P 



PtoQ5 ,Q Q takes K t 



Kt takes Kt ' Kt to K2 "" P takes P ' Kt to Bi 



Q to Q3. The sacrifice of tho Bishop 



And for White's 13tli 



hero looks promising, and the following are a few results of 



examination : — 



^•'- K to H:i 



Kt to Kt-Kch) 

 '^- K to Kt3 



QR to g(8 (i) 



Being convinced that White could follow up that line of play, 

 although in tho loat variation Black has a valid defence, Chess 



