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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 ...
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 ...
Notice that the simple squeeze with a split two-card menace is a positional squeeze. It will not operate against East if West's cards in Example 5 are transferred to East, as in Example 6. In Example 6, the split two-card menace is still present but if dummy discards the ♠ 3 on the ♣ A, East discards the ♠ Q and declarer must still lose ...
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The Vienna coup is an unblocking technique in contract bridge made in preparation for a squeeze play. [1] It is so named because it was originally published by James Clay (1804-1873) after observing it being executed in the days of whist by "the greatest player in Vienna" — identity unknown.
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.
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N W E S ♠ K 9 ♥ A ♥ — ♦ — ♦ Q ♣ — ♣ — ♠ 3 ♥ — ♦ J ♣ 2 1) In the first matrix, the double menace (spades) is in one hand (dummy in the example), accompanied by an entry, and the other two are split between two declarer's hands. When the club deuce is played West has to shed a spade, dummy sheds the now useless king of hearts and East is squeezed in the pointed ...