Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site houxz.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxi!mhuxa!houxm!houxz!halle1 From: halle1@houxz.UUCP Newsgroups: net.rec.bridge Subject: A small slam the hard way Message-ID: <346@houxz.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Jul-83 14:11:24 EDT Article-I.D.: houxz.346 Posted: Thu Jul 21 14:11:24 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jul-83 05:54:44 EDT Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 8 There have appeared in print over the years hands involving losing a low trump early in order to make a slam. Believe it or not, it is possible to construct a hand where the first round of trumps must be lost to the three in order to make the slam. Can anyone do it? (The solution appeared a few years ago in Bridge World as an inferential problem.) Jeff Halle