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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.
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.
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Hearts are the "vice suit", and the second menace is the declarer's ♦ 8. This is a position akin to automatic simple squeeze.When South leads the high ♠ 5, West must not discard the ♦ 10; when he parts with a heart honor, declarer leads the heart and East must cede the last trick to dummy's heart ten.
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.
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.
N W E S ♠ — ♥ A ♥ — ♦ 3 ♦ 9 8 7 6 ♣ — ♣ — ♠ K ♥ K ♦ 2 ♣ A South has three winners: The ♠ K, ♠ A, and ♣ A. However, after cashing the ♠ K, there will be no entry to the North hand to enjoy the ♠ A. However, on the play of ♣ A, West is squeezed. Discarding a spade allows South to overtake the ♠ K to get two tricks in the suit. Throwing the ♥ A lets ...