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What's this squeeze called?

#1 User is offline   Lord Molyb 

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Posted 2014-January-11, 08:35


North plays 4NT on a spade lead and cashes 3 clubs and 4 spades to get to the following position:


On the last spade, east discards a diamond but west has no good discard. If he discards a diamond, I'll get two diamond tricks instead of one. If he discards a club, I get a club and a diamond. If he discards the 9, I lead a low heart from both hands and either west is endplayed after cashing 2 hearts and a club or east overtakes and establishes an extra heart trick for me. If he discards a high heart, I lead a low heart from both hands and west is again endplayed or east overtakes and establishes a heart for me.

So what is that squeeze called?
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Posted 2014-January-11, 09:08

View PostLord Molyb, on 2014-January-11, 08:35, said:


North plays 4NT on a spade lead and cashes 3 clubs and 4 spades to get to the following position:


On the last spade, east discards a diamond but west has no good discard. If he discards a diamond, I'll get two diamond tricks instead of one. If he discards a club, I get a club, a diamond, and eventually another red-suit trick depending on what he discards. If he discards the 9, I lead a low heart from both hands and either west is endplayed after cashing 2 hearts and a club or east overtakes and establishes an extra heart trick for me. If he discards a high heart, I lead a low heart from both hands and west is again endplayed or east overtakes and establishes a heart for me.
So what is that squeeze called?

This squeeze-strip is an unusual and pretty kind of winkle. This version depends critically on what I call a pivot, for want of a better term. Here, for example, the J plays that crucial role. So I would call this a pivot squeeze. You can replace the T (as on the left) to emphasise the role of the pivot.

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Posted 2014-January-11, 09:49

I would say it's a rare type of bunny squeeze, where the bunny has transferred from defender to declarer by virtue of not playing in a 10cd trump fit.
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Posted 2014-January-11, 10:09

View Postwanoff, on 2014-January-11, 09:49, said:

I would say it's a rare type of bunny squeeze, where the bunny has transferred from defender to declarer by virtue of not playing in a 10cd trump fit.
OK, pretend the contract is 4 :)
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Posted 2014-January-11, 13:14

View Postnige1, on 2014-January-11, 10:09, said:

OK, pretend the contract is 4 :)

In 4 you can just ruff a diamond though, not as fun :(
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Posted 2014-January-11, 14:09

View PostLord Molyb, on 2014-January-11, 13:14, said:

In 4 you can just ruff a diamond though, not as fun :(
Duh :( OK. Make the South hand-shape 4324 :)
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Posted 2014-January-11, 14:33

View Postnige1, on 2014-January-11, 14:09, said:

Duh :( OK. Make the South hand-shape 4324 :)

In spades you can eliminate the hearts after drawing trump and throw west in with a club
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Posted 2014-January-11, 14:38

View PostLord Molyb, on 2014-January-11, 08:35, said:


On the last spade, east discards a diamond but west has no good discard. If he discards a diamond, I'll get two diamond tricks instead of one. If he discards a club, I get a club and a diamond. If he discards the 9, I lead a low heart from both hands and either west is endplayed after cashing 2 hearts and a club or east overtakes and establishes an extra heart trick for me. If he discards a high heart, I lead a low heart from both hands and west is again endplayed or east overtakes and establishes a heart for me.

So what is that squeeze called?

'Tis a winkle. Terence Reese wrote about them frequently.
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Posted 2014-January-11, 15:42

View PostLord Molyb, on 2014-January-11, 14:33, said:

In spades you can eliminate the hearts after drawing trump and throw west in with a club
OK :) I concede :)
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