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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.
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 ♥ A ♦ — ♣ — ♠ A J ♥ K ♦ — ♣ — Consider the simple legitimate positional squeeze in Example 1 where South is declarer requiring all remaining tricks and has the lead in dummy: The ♣ A is led from dummy and East is genuinely squeezed between hearts and spades. If he throws away the ♥ A, declarer discards the ♠ J from hand, plays hearts and makes the ♥ ...
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.
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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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.