ais523
2020-06-09 23:07:09 UTC
North cashes the 13th spade in a notrump contract.
North's hand also contains K of diamonds, low club.
West has Qx in diamonds, Q of clubs.
East has ATx in diamonds.
South has Jxx in diamonds.
East and South will obviously just discard a low diamond, but West is
squeezed; unguarding clubs means North just gets to cash the remaining
club, so West has to discard a diamond. Now when North plays the King,
West's Queen drops; East either has to duck and let North score the
King, or else take the Ace and let south score the last trick with the
Jack. So N/S get one more trick than they would if West were not forced
to discard, i.e. this is a squeeze.
It doesn't match up with any of the squeeze patterns I know the names
of, though (I haven't seen a squeeze before in which one player is
squeezed, and an endplay on their partner is used as an entry; and I
can't find it in lists of squeeze positions, surprising as it happens
on trick 11), but I don't know very much about squeeze nomenclature.
Thus, I'm hoping that someone here on Usenet will let me know what
it's called.
(This comes from hypothetical play in an actual hand; I could have
played for this ending, but didn't see it and took a much more boring
line. I spotted it when analysing the hand later on.)
North's hand also contains K of diamonds, low club.
West has Qx in diamonds, Q of clubs.
East has ATx in diamonds.
South has Jxx in diamonds.
East and South will obviously just discard a low diamond, but West is
squeezed; unguarding clubs means North just gets to cash the remaining
club, so West has to discard a diamond. Now when North plays the King,
West's Queen drops; East either has to duck and let North score the
King, or else take the Ace and let south score the last trick with the
Jack. So N/S get one more trick than they would if West were not forced
to discard, i.e. this is a squeeze.
It doesn't match up with any of the squeeze patterns I know the names
of, though (I haven't seen a squeeze before in which one player is
squeezed, and an endplay on their partner is used as an entry; and I
can't find it in lists of squeeze positions, surprising as it happens
on trick 11), but I don't know very much about squeeze nomenclature.
Thus, I'm hoping that someone here on Usenet will let me know what
it's called.
(This comes from hypothetical play in an actual hand; I could have
played for this ending, but didn't see it and took a much more boring
line. I spotted it when analysing the hand later on.)
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