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93:. In many familiar squeezed positions, such as a simple or double squeeze, the rank of a defender's holding prevents declarer from cashing a threat until the squeeze has matured. This situation is also present in entry squeezes, but in addition a defensive holding interferes with declarer's entries, preventing declarer from effectively going back and forth between his hand and dummy.
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Ottlik and Kelsey summarize this entry squeeze as follows: "Those silly little diamonds in the East hand have a function after all. Idle, irrelevant or immaterial as they may be called, by their mere existence they also serve. They stand and wait, in the way, blocking traffic, hindering enemy lines
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The entry squeeze is sometimes described as a "non-material" squeeze. The entry squeeze may weaken a defender's holding in a suit where declarer can already take winners, but cannot take them in the preferred hand or in the preferred order. Therefore, it is only in part a squeeze against high cards,
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K and South wins. In a sense, declarer has 13 tricks: three spades, four hearts, two diamonds with the finesse, and four clubs with repeated finesses. But there aren't enough apparent entries to the South hand to take all those finesses.
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10 to force a cover or retain the lead, so only one entry to the South hand is needed. A spade discard gives South an additional entry, so that he can overtake the
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J. If East discards a heart, declarer can establish two heart tricks with only one lead from dummy. If East discards a diamond, declarer gets
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KQ twice, but his entry situation is such that he can get to dummy in diamonds once only. If he thinks of it, declarer can now play the
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10, West must either discard a club a trick earlier, while dummy still has an idle spade, or allow South a re-entry with the
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of communication. And having this value, however silent and hidden, they are subject to the pressure of a squeeze."
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3 against 3NT. East plays three rounds of spades, declarer winning the third with the
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5. This would not have been possible if South had not unblocked the
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5 is cashed, West is finally forced to discard a club – and
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6, for another heart lead toward his remaining honor.
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634:North overbids wildly to 7NT and West leads the
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830:5 to squeeze West between clubs and diamonds.
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273:A Q, on which West discards a heart.
869:(!) in this position, with dummy to play:
467:K Q 6, and later, if necessary, leads the
65:Learn how and when to remove this message
41:Please review their use according to the
1064:Adventures in Card Play, Gollancz, 1979
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482:Another Ottlik – Kelsey entry squeeze:
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440:10. So doing destroys East's hand.
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380:9 6 5 2
225:J 9 4 2
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1033:J and overtakes with the
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1080:Contract bridge squeezes
642:7, East covers with the
276:The position is now:
269:3. South cashes the
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650:South finesses the
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55:November 2020
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32:This article
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1053:References
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47:guidelines
841:4 to the
471:4 to the
91:side suit
38:material.
1074:Category
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81:move in
43:criteria
36:non-free
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857:J. The
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215:Lead:
87:length
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45:and
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