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N W E S ♠ ♥ A ♥ Q J 10 ♦ — ♦ ♣ — ♣ — South to lead ♠ 4 ♥ 2 ♦ — ♣ A South needs all three remaining tricks in a notrump contract. South leads the squeeze card, the ♣ A, and West is squeezed in hearts and spades. If West discards the ♥ A, North's ♥ K becomes a winner. If West discards either spade, North's ♠ J becomes a winner. Note the following features of ...
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.
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 ...
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.
N W S ♥ K 3 ♦ — ♣ — ♠ A ♥ Q 5 ♦ — ♣ A The menaces are the major-suit queens, blocked by the corresponding aces. One of those aces will serve as entry or re-entry to whichever queen is established by the squeeze. When South cashes the ♣ A as squeeze card, West must blank (unguard) one of his kings. The declarer can then cash the ace of the suit in which West has bared his ...
A compound squeeze is a type of play in the game of contract bridge. In this squeeze one opponent is squeezed such that some form of other squeeze emerges involving either or both players. Usually this term is used to reference a pentagonal squeeze. In this form of squeeze both players guard two suits, and one player guards a third suit.
A clash squeeze is a three suit bridge squeeze with a special kind of menace, referred to as clash menace. The clash menace is one that might fall under a winner in the opposite hand, because it can be covered by another card in an opponent's hand. If the clash squeeze can force the opponent to discard his guard, then the clash menace can be ...