[Balrog49]

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The ten of hearts squeezes West. If he discards a diamond, South can play a diamond to establish the critical trick in the suit. Is this just a simple squeeze or something else?

[nige1]

Balrog49 asks "The ten of hearts squeezes West. If he discards a diamond, South can play a diamond to establish the critical trick in the suit. Is this just a simple squeeze or something else?"

I think George Coffin would call it "a simple squeeze without the count".

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[Balrog49]

nige1, on 2012-November-26, 16:37, said:

I think George Coffin would call it "a simple squeeze without the count".
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Sounds right to me.

I remember playing in George's game at the Newton, Mass. YMCA about 40 years ago. He was the only director I've ever known who insisted on positioning the tables so that North on the table cards pointed to geographic North.

[inquiry]

This is a type of "developmental squeeze" that Clyde Love called this a "CLE" squeeze, for companion, lead, entry. The second diamond is the companion, the lead is also the 2nd diamond to lead to west, and an entry is the club king. I have detail notes on it and some problem hands in a BBO Movie to published if we ever get bookmarks or chapters. Or I might break the movie into two problem units (there are more than a dozen problems plus several non-problem examples in the chapter on two loser squeezes).

For more examples on this type of squeeze, see this forum post....Version with three losers....
Another view of one in my thread(s) on basic flaws in the squeeze ending Another hand with "lecture" on such squeezes

I have seven squeeze movies with examples and quizzes finished but, need to decide what to do because they are longer than my vulnerable stopper movie that had 14 problems plus small educational examples that few people have finished, so seven longer squeeze files, despite the interesting squeezes would not be viewed I am afraid. There is close to 100 squeeze problem hands in the files, some with multiple endings you have to pick between based upon card reading clues. I will have to decide rather to break the files up into much smaller pieces, or wait for bookmarks or chapters be added to the movie software.

[Siegmund]

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I remember playing in George's game at the Newton, Mass. YMCA about 40 years ago. He was the only director I've ever known who insisted on positioning the tables so that North on the table cards pointed to geographic North.

Apologies for being off-topic ... but insisting on pointing North toward north is quite common, in my experience. One of the clubs I played at even forced the out-of-town director who ran our annual sectional to conform -- his arrows went every which way if he tried to point them somewhere else.

It really ought to be universal, far as I am concerned.

[mycroft]

North at table 2 points to table 1. If it doesn't, people move wrong.

I have had rooms with 4 sections that, for ease of moving/isolating boardsets/growing sections, had North in each of the sections pointing a different way. I assumed that the CTD had done that simply because on the first session, he had set up the room "backwards", and was told by a very strident A player that "in Calgary, North points [that way]". It wasn't, he said and says to this day. I didn't believe him, and don't to this day.

Imagine a 8x2 space to put a section (and yes, they exist - and sometimes they exist as one room). Imagine the short direction being N-S. Enjoy a Mitchell run in that room with "East-West higher, boards lower" and "North is north".


To continue the thread drift completely, I had a new one this last sectional. I came to a table in the Swiss to find that it had been turned 90 degrees. I checked to make sure that the teams were sat properly, to find that they in fact were *not*. But that's okay, because they pulled the cards out of the board, and *then* turned it 90 degrees so that they could see over the stack of boards. Oh yes, of *course* they always turned it back before putting the cards back or scoring.

I solved the "can't see over the stack of boards" problem by pulling half of them off the table, and turning the card back. Interestingly enough, we found out at scoring time, after all 12 boards had been played, that the first board of the previously played set was 4♠N at the first table to play (making 5) and 4♠W at the second table (making 4). E-W had a 7-3 spade fit. I guess they didn't remember to turn it back *all the time*, eh?

And they wonder why TDs have white hair.