Now I beseech novices, and especially Indies, to. follow the Kindergarten logie of this position. Fo. get your call you must_make dummy's queen. If you play dum= 'y's ace on your small ead, you cannot possibly do 60, except in the rulracle of the king falling on 1 vee on a first lead. That mirsele dare not trust to, And you hold in that you at least ten cards, in which surely that suit would. be ramps, and theca haggard con siderations about making the queen would never arise. Your only Chance ig to play the queen from Cammy "on. your own small card, find.'then, if the king happens to Sein the right side, which means the second and not, the fourth nayer's hand, you are "home." The hanees are exactly equal which hand will hold the king, und. you have, therefore, a fifty-iffy chance making your crucial queen. But only if you finesse it; not other-vise, In such a position, never hes Nate, If you do not finesse the queen, you lose her; if you do finesse her, it is even odds you make her.' What logical insanity, then, to hesitate!
From a radical misconception of that axiomatic finesse arises one of the most Iudicrous blunders of the rratable, You will sometimes see the player of the dummy hand, with an aco in dummy and a queen his only top card in that tame hhis own hand, lead the queen to dummy's. ace, and.eall it naively "finessing" the queen? The only difference between the case we Nave just considered, and this ease, that, whereas in the former the wanes about making the queen were even, in this ease, of the queen lead up to dumms's ce, it. would tha utterly impossible to make her. A million to one docs not adequately represent the odds against. it—if bitwal ates," congenital defending players are neither eh idiots, nor philanthropists on an imperial scale.
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