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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
points counted for honors, chicane, slam,
or under tricks, which are scored above
the line, and which count exactly as in
bridge.
Every hand is played out, and any
points in excess of the thirty points
necessary for the game are counted, just
as in bridge.
When the declarer fulfills his contract,
each trick above six counts two points
in spades, four in clubs, six in diamonds,
eight in hearts, and twelve in no trumps.
At the end of the rubber, the total
scores for tricks, under tricks, honors,
chicane, and slam obtained by each side
are added up, two hundred and fifty
points are added to the score of the win.
ners of the rubber, and the difference
between the two scores is the number of
points won. or lost, by the winners of
the rubber.
The penalty for each revoke is as fol
lows :
The adversaries add one hundred and
fifty points to their score above the line,
in addition to any liability which the
revoking player may have incurred for
failure to fulfill his contract.
When either of the adversaries revoke,
the declarer may add one hundred and
fifty points to his score above the line,
or may take three tricks from his op
ponents and add them to his own. Such
cricks taken, as penalty, may assist the
declarer to fulfill his contract, but they
do not entitle him to score any bonus
above the line, in the case of the declara
tion having been doubled or redoubled.
Before 1 go into the matter of the
declarations any more deeply, I want to
add a few hints to beginners at auction ;
hints, I trust, which will be helpful, and
which will save my readers a consider
able sum of money if only they will keep
them constantly in mind.
HINTS TO BEGINNERS.
(1.) Keep the score; declare to the score;
double to the score; play to the score.
12.) At game all, twenty-four all, or in any
similar situation, it is obviously wise to try
hard to wlu the rubber; and, even if you have
but faint hopes of winning the hand, to bid
rather high and risk the losa of a trick or two, in
.the hopes of going out on the next deal, or of
forcing your ad veraaries to overbid their hands ;
but remember that you may be doubled, and that
your penalties for not fulfilling your contract
may mount up to two or three hundred, or as
much as you will win on the rubber; presuming,
of course, that on the next hand you Mill have
the luck to win it.
(3.) Third hand should always try to take his
partner out of a spade declaration unless he has
an absolutely worthless hand.
(4.) Do not insist upon calling two, let us say,
hearts when jou have a good heart suit
simply because your adversary has called one
heart, li is often wiser, in such a case, not to
overbid, but simply to double, in case that you
have a hand that you can double any suit that
he switches to.
(5 j Do not bluff j our adversaries too much,
with a view to making them overbid their
hands. The bluff may work, and they may
leave you with the make, and hoist you by your
own petard.
(6.) Remember that it is wise to bid your full
est strength &t first.
17.) Before leading, try hard to remember
the various declarations that have been made,
and to draw logical inferences from them.
When your own hand is difficult to open,
lead from the suit in which your partner may
have bid before being overbidden. This is often
particularly wise advice in opening a no
trumper.
A good declarer is better for a partner
than a brilliant play er.
(10.) The best llrst declaration for the dealer
is "one no trump "provided, of course, that
his hand jcutiiies fcuch a call.
(11.) Remember that In auction, much more
than in bridge, you must bank more on your
aces and kings than you must on your numer
ical strength in a suit.
(12.) Doubling, let us say, a bid of three
hearts, is very different from doubling a bid of
one heart. It may not take a very powerful
hand to prevent the declarer from making seven
tricks, while it would to prevent his making
nine. Try always to egg your adversaries
along to a rash promise, and then pcunce on
them.
(13.) If your penalties are a good der 1 higher
than your opponents' total ecore, let them go
out, rather than ritk a heavy penalty against
you. Simply pocket the difference in your favor
ana commence another rubber.
(14) Try to figure out who is to be the leader.
This matter of "who leads" makes a vast differ
ence In many hands at auction.
(15.) As the penalty is always fifty points a
trick, no matter what the trump suit may be, it
Is easy to see that the bidder is continually lay
ing odds on himself, because the penalty is al
ways greater than the reward.
We come now to the matter of declarations,
the most important part of auction, for, on it,
depends a half of the skill of the best players.
Naturally, the subject is a complicated one, and
one about which four or five articles might
easily be written, but as my space is limited, I
must content mj self with a dozen or so observa
tions on the matter, leaving my readers to learn
more of the matter from bitter aiid costly ex
perience. (1.) Bidding is often done, not with a view to
fulfilling the bid, but to give imformation to
one's partner, and help him in making an over
bid. (2.) Remember that only on your own, or
your partner's, declaration can you score to
ward game. The game cannot be won unless
your side is the maker of the final trump.
(3.) The right to play the dummy is worth, to
a really good player, about one trick in every
hand.
(4.) Be careful not to call no trumps, after an
adversary has made a generous bid in any par
ticular suit, unless you can stop that suit, as it
is certain to be led in case your iio trump make
is allowed to stand.
(5.) Don't cling to your bridge prejudice
against declaring diamonds. The player must
push his score along, in auction, by any and
every means that is certain,
(6.) Trump honors in auction are not so Im
portant as in bridge, except as trick winners,
because of the enormous penalty points and the
increased points, two hundred and fiity, lor the
rubber.
(7.) " One spade " is usually a tentative call,
sparring for wind, as it were.
(8.) Don't overbid your adversaries any more
than is necessary, unless you want to shut out a
dangerous bid. Remember the penalties !
(u.j The second bidder should not double an
original, or first, bid. It alarms the dealer's
partner and the original bidder, and tends to
make him lit low out of the range of the zone
of peril.
(10.) When your partner has declared a suit
in a hand which is being played as a no trumper,
lead him the top of that suit, uu. ess you have
a particularly stiong suit of your own.
(11.; Never take your opponents out of" a
black suit call unless y ou see a reasonably good
chance of making the game in a red suit.
(12.) The man who declares a suit because he
happens to hold five or six small cards in it is a
very dangerous paitner, indeed, and should be
shunned as caief ully as the upas tree.
(13.) Above everything, remember that the
possible loss entailed by failure at no trumps is
precisely the same as the poosible lots entailed
by failure at spades not one point more, either
above or below the line. Mr. W. Dalton, the
well-known English writer on bridge, has wisely
said : " If I were to take on the job of giving
lessons in auction bridge, this would be the first
point which I should endeavor to impress upon
the minds of my pupils, and to impress so
strongly that they would never lose sight of it.
It is the main turning point of the whole game,
that whereas the possible gain varies according
to the value of the declaration, the possible loss
remains absolutely the same."
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V I T II A
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