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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 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.
Pages in category "Contract bridge squeezes" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. ... Simple squeeze; Simultaneous double squeeze;
Bridge Squeezes Complete is a book on contract bridge written by Ann Arbor, Michigan-based mathematics professor Clyde E. Love, originally published in 1959. [1] Written in a "dry, mathematical way", [2] it is still considered one of the most important bridge books ever written [3] and the squeeze vocabulary Love invented [4] remains the basis for all discussions of squeezes.
Bridge for the Connoisseur (Gollancz/Crawley, 1991) New Instant Guide To Bridge (1993) Acol Bridge for Bright Beginners (1995) Kelsey on Squeeze Play (2002) – compilation of Simple Squeezes (1985), Strip Squeezes, Double Squeezes, and Triple Squeezes; Novels. A Bullet for Charles (1955), as by Hugh Walter, his given names; Please Don't ...
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Clyde Elton Love (December 12, 1882 – January 31, 1960) was an American contract bridge author and mathematics professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. [1] He was a native of Bancroft, Michigan and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1905.
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.