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Since its publication, the book has sold over 300,000 copies, [2] and won the American Bridge Teachers' Association Book of the Year (Student) award. [3] It has also been translated into French, Japanese and German. [2] In 2022, the book was updated and revised by Master Point Press.
A squeeze play (or squeeze) is a technique used in contract bridge and other trick-taking games in which the play of a card (the squeeze card) forces an opponent to discard a winner or the guard of a potential winner. The situation typically occurs in the end game, with only a few cards remaining.
Backwash squeeze is a rare squeeze which involves squeezing an opponent which lies behind declarer's menace. A variation of this, known as the "Sydney Squeeze" or "Seres Squeeze", was discovered in play at a rubber bridge game in Sydney, Australia, in 1965, by the Australian great Tim Seres; it was later attested by famous bridge theorist Géza Ottlik in an article in The Bridge World in 1974 ...
N E S ♠ K Q ♥ K 4 ♦ — ♣ — ♠ 4 ♥ Q 2 ♦ — ♣ A On the play of the ♣ A by South, East is squeezed but can escape by throwing a small heart. Although the ♥ Q is now set up, South must next play either the ♥ Q, ♥ 2 or ♠ 4 to be won in dummy and has no entry back to cash it; he must now lose a spade to East. ♠ A J Example 2 North to lead ♥ — ♦ — ♣ 2 N E S ...
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The simple squeeze is the most basic form of a squeeze in contract bridge. When declarer plays a winner in one suit (the squeeze card), an opponent is forced to discard a stopper in one of declarer's two threat suits. The simple squeeze takes place against one opponent only and gains one trick only.
A single-suit squeeze is a unique squeeze play in contract bridge that occurs with an awkward defensive distribution of one suit. It contains elements of a squeeze and a throw-in. [1] It is a kind of immaterial squeeze, in which a discard does not cost a trick directly, but gives up a position, allowing the opponents to adopt a winning line.