Classic Kantar
by
Eddie Kantar
Master Point Press,
Paperback, Can$14.95
If you read and enjoyed this author's
previous light-hearted books (Bridge Humor and The Best of
Kantar) then you will already know what a treat is in store.
If you have not come across
either of the other titles yet, then add them to your 'wants' list
now.
Kantar starts off with some of the
amusing incidents that have arisen from his life as a bridge
teacher. Then he moves on to his adventures travelling
around the world to play. Finally, he takes an irreverent look at
some of the ways in which experts (including himself) get egg on
their faces.
This is a good example:
7 3 |
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A K Q 4 |
N
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J 10 8 6 5 |
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W
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E
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S
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9 2
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Defending against 1NT, West led K.
East, fearing that declarer had Q
x, played the Jack to stop his partner underleading the Ace if he
had began with A
K x x.
On seeing the Jack, West thought that his partner had started with
J 10
x, so to avoid blocking the suit, he continued with the four.
Now it looked to East as though
his partner had started with K
Q 9 4 so, to avoid blocking the suit, he ducked to declarer's presumed
bare Ace. South was allowed to win the second round of the suit
with the nine. Only a pair of experts could play this way!
This book is suitable for players
at all levels. Don't expect to be able to put it down, though -
book a whole evening off so that you can read it from cover to cover.
Highly recommended.
Marc Smith
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