| 2.1 |
Don't make those who make
a mistake or are slow to answer (not necessarily through ignorance)
feel guilty |
| 2.2 |
Give a brief repetition
of the "bidding" by putting on the board two hands one above
the other where you speak first about the one underneath: get answers
corresponding to the phrases recommended in the Lesson of the Day.
Remind the dealer that he must not say how many points he has. |
| 2.3 |
Explain this lead afterwards
by showing that you must know how to accept the loss of one or two
tricks to win one or more afterwards; indicate that it is good to
lead the highest card of a sequence
(define the word); ask the players at East to explain why. |
| 2.4 |
Before making them play
the deal, draw attention to the necessity - before beginning - of
reviewing the strengths and weaknesses of the pair; the strengths
being the tricks they are sure to make (why?), the weaknesses being
the suits where they have few or no high cards (which ones here?). |
| 2.5 |
The seven tricks will
come as the declarer wages battle: he will cash in his master Hearts,
his second Spade and after that he will perhaps play Diamonds . Wiith
a bit of luck, in West will discard his Spades rather than his Clubs
on South's master Hearts and the Spades will make extra tricks. |
| 2.6 |
Ask why they can only
make six tricks with Hearts and Spades and congratulate the (already)
good pupil who says that Spades are the opponents' strong suit. |
| 2.7 |
In order to get them thinking, ask
how many tricks they are sure of making in Diamonds and why; don't
accept as the only reply: "because with four of the five highest
cards we are sure to make three"
Stress the notion of equivalent honours;
set out the honours in Diamonds between declarer and dummy and ask
them what is happening. Then show that the number of possible tricks
is a function of:
| |
1) |
the number of equivalent
honours held (and their rank) |
| |
2) |
the length of the
suit in the longest hand |
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| 2.8 |
They are still a bit fragile
to be shown the danger in Clubs! |
| 2.9 |
When
the children are playing the free deal, ask them to reproduce the
bidding dialogue that you have taught them. |
