Dear Bobby, I’m sorry I’m not using this comment box to comment on your article, but I would welcome your comments to a blog I’ve just done on ” card sense “, as I believe only top class players such as yourself are best qualified to define what it actually means. Yours John Howard Gibson ( blogger: Howard Bigot-Johnson ).

Or: you guess to cash only 2 hearts and exit with the jack of spades. East wins and can only stay alive by returning a diamond honor. Win in dummy, ruff a club, lead a heart to west, who now has only clubs. He leads one, dummy discards a spade and declarer a diamond, and then on the next club, dummy discards and declarer ruffs and plays his last trump, squeezing east. Maybe not as pretty but just as effective. Also, the recommended line works if west never leads diamonds. I think that there is nothing to choose between the two lines; I believe they both depend on the same lie of the cards. Am I right?

Hi Howard,

I’ll be happy to and be there directly.

Hi David,

From what I can see and feel, your last sentence is right on and says everything one needs to say about this hand.

Call your description the anatomy of a squeeze ending and perhaps, at least to some relatively new to squeezes, it describes more graphically what happens to the poor squeeze victim.

Also, at least to me, it capsulizes some of the wonders of our game. Keep in mind, that one can do well in bridge, be an above average player who wins consistently, but never really executes a fairly complicated squeeze. The type of ending which you very accurately describe belongs in a bridge art museum and merely touches on the way to sometimes manufacture extra tricks. However, since the playing of bridge also involves discipline, consistency, partnership harmony, developed good judgment and great concentration, I would say that it has something for everyone. Play it, appreciate it, LOVE it!