Hf the king is held by the fourth player, of course the queen is taken, bs, indeed, she would be in the Somer instance of the true finesse. But, if the king isin, the second player's hand, what happens? And please note this carefully, and enter in your diary, in ease that second player ever happens to be you! Does he allow that innocent queen glide under his nose unravished? Why should he? If the player holds the knave as well as the queen, passing the queen will only mean fo far as player number two is concerned, that he will next lead have the' knave finessed through him too, On the other hand, iz the player docs not hold the have, number two's partner must, and the only way to enable that knave to become a winner is by number tio, asin duty bound, plamping his 1g gallantly on the queen, which compels dummy's ace to fall' on the same lead, and thus restricts the yer's ace-queen suit. to scoring. only one trick. I hope I have made that quite plain, because it is 7 ly. an important point of normal Auction Bridge play that must be thoroughly assimilated.
Two deductions follow from this discussion. A top honour lead aco is not a finesse, but certain disaster, unless the leader holds also the next top honour.
player above quoted had held the jack as well og the queen, his "finesse" would indeed have been finesse! The odds would have eon, as in the first example we considered, fifty-Afty that the king was in number two's which case the player makes Jack good without lesing his queen because she would draw the" king under the ace's fell stroke. The second deduction is that, with few and abnormal exceptions that they are scorsely worth considering, you must always "cover" card leod through you. That "means you must, "if you hold the next highest abore that card, say kins over queen, queen over knave, oF} knave over cen, boldly and firm! "shove it on."
Occasionally, more particularly no-trumps. and when the superior finessed through is well held, has three or four small cards behind it, it may be wise to keep 0 occasions "occur when, simply cause a player greed) aly refuses to cover a card, perfect! ood tricks are thrown sway. wonder how many pretty little tens have gone down "unwept, unbone ed, and unsung," that mizht hav scored decisive tricks, in this wa I press this rule, of always covering the card, elmest as strongly as any point dealt with in these articles It is the sure and certain hall: mark of the sound player. When I am playing in strange company, ud my partner covers a card, I fin at once, and bet myself five-to-four on" winning the rubber with reasonable Tuck, Obviously, if you are playing dummy, and~hold" an ace in one hand and a queen only in the other, you must finesse in quite another way, Your one and only chance then of making a trick with that queen is if the king is on her "right" side, which means, of course. that the player holding the King has to play his card before the hand holding that queen. If she is in dummy, you must' lead small card up to her, If she is in your own hand, you must lead a small card from dummy up to her. You just take the fifty-fifty chance of the king being, og T have said, on the "right" side from your point of view, which happens, owing to the way the order of play follows the sun, to be also the "right-hand" side,
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