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KNOWLEDGE ♦ 



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^r Wil)ist Column* 



PLAY THIRD IN HAND (TRUMrS). 



TUE play thirvl in liaiiil, in trumps, vurios often importantly fiv m 

 the play in plain salts, though it is not easy to lay down 

 m-nera! rules for (ietorminint; the ilifTorence. Usually, when you 

 play tmmps third in hand, the suit has either been 'led by your 

 |>artner origimUIy, or he returns your own lead of trumps. You 

 are playing tofrethcr, in this euse.'to draw trumps and bring in a 

 long suit. It is therefore often more important to keep the leail 

 than to pain a trick by finessing, so that beyond the customary 

 finesse from Ace, Queen (third in luind), you would avoid finessing 

 oarly in the play of trum]>s, especially to your partner's 

 original lead of trumps. On the otlicr hand, you can finesse 

 more safely in tramps than in other suits, for a winning card 

 is suro to make. And again in tho third round of trumps 

 it may often be well to pass tho trick, even when second in hand 

 has headed it, or when fourth in hand is suro to take it, so as to 

 secure tho last trick in trumps. These mattei-s depend so much on 

 previous indications from tlio play, on tho nature of tho hand 

 outside tramps, and so forth, that it is impossible to lay down 

 general rules : the best way of indicating correct principles of 

 play is to give illustrative hands for study. It need hardly bo said 

 tliat the trump card has to be taken carefully into account in con- 

 sidering what to play third in hand. It not only alters often the 

 finesse into sure play, as when Kuig has been turned uj) on 

 your right and you hold Ace, Queen, third in hand; but it 

 may make a finesse sound which otherwise would be unsoiiml. 

 Thus to finesse tho Knave third in hand from Ace, Knave, 

 witi or without others, would be usually unsound ; but it Queen or 

 King is turned upon your right, it is sound, as you finesse against 

 one card only, and if the finesse fails retain tho command. (Note, 

 in passing, that when trumps have been originally led by yourself, 

 it is often sound to finesse against more than ono card.) " ]f your 

 partner has turned up King or Queen and leads a small trump, 

 the finesse from Ace Knavo is not so well, for in that case 

 your partner probably does not hold both King and Queen, 

 and, if second hand plays a small card, the odds are rather in 

 favour of either King or Queen bomg on your left. With King, 

 Knave, Ac, to your partner's original lead of trumps, finessing 

 the Knave is inexcusable. Of course, if Queen is turned up on 

 your right, or by your partner, you would play the Knave; but that, 

 equally of course, would not be a finesse. 



In all cases, in plain suits as well as in trumps, finessing third in 

 hand must de])end on the score. If the failure of the finesse in 

 plain suits would lose the game, a finesse is inexcusable; it is 

 scarcely better, if failing would leave you at the score of two 

 instead of three, or lose instead of gaining you the odd trick. On 

 the other hand, if the failure of the finesse would leave you tho 

 odd trick instead of three, while its success would leave yon at tho 

 score of three, it is nearly always right to finesse, even when the 

 odds are rather against than in favour of success. 



In our next we shall consider the inferences from play third in 

 hand, as we have already considered the inferences from the lend, 

 from play second in hand, Ac. 



Two hononnt have been played by I' Z, one hr>nonr by /I, so that 

 )■ Z hold two by honours, to Z'a knowledge. A II l.ave turned six 

 tricks. 



A having led Diamond Knave, how is Z to p'ay to save i nd win 

 the game? 



DOUBLE DUMMY I'liOlU.KM (p. lOJ). 



We have received two forms of solution to this probl. m, which 



rt-nnirc*, be it remembered, that the adversaries HhonM have four 



by bonoars in every init, yet that five by .Urdu ^^.<, hi Ix- won 



against them. 



P'irst, sent by one correspondent only (unfortunati-ly his name or 

 litials not appended to tho solution itself, though accompanying 

 is letter — mislaid) runs as follows ; — 



PiamoncU-9, 7, 2. 

 Clubs— 1 >, '.1, S, 7, 



4, 3, 2. 

 Hearts- None. 

 Spades — None. 



B. 



Ili.imoi,ds-10, 8, f. 

 Spades -10, 9, H, 7 

 Hearts- 10, U, K, 7 

 Clubs— None. 



Nois.-TKi 



Diamnmis—K. Kn. 

 Rimdes— K, Kn. 

 Hearts— K, Ku, 6, 6, 



4, 3, 2. 

 Chibs -K, Kn. 



),-.ni,.,m!.^— A. Q. 

 pades — A, Q, 0, 5, 4, 



Thin .1 brings in his Clubs, T and Z playing any cards whatever, 

 aiul B retaining tho long trump till tho thirteenth trick. It is 

 obvious that Y and Z aro powerless. If Z loads Diamond Ace at 

 trick 3, tho order of tricks 3, 4, and 5 is simply changed, but tho 

 result remains the same. So also if Z leads a Heart or a Club at 

 trick 3 instead of a Spado. 



Tho other solutions, sent by J. Ilargroave, T. Parniintcr, Lore- 

 smith, M. Vindei, H. H. Uamilton, and others, wo shall give next 

 week. 



Contents of Knowledge iTo. 39. 



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