cr|264|cb|2255|cg|2255|cr|1255|cb|164|cg|1255|cr|364|cb|364|cg|3255|cr|4255|cb|464|cg|464|cr|5255|cb|5255|cg|5255|bg|5|bt||mn|Keeping your "TENACES IN TACT 1"|cs|3|at|

 




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Use the  ^$40  button on the toolbar below to advance to the next page. (6th blackened icon along bottom line)|pg||st||nt|Are you the unlucky expert with a card combination as above ?|cs|4|at|

{Do you play Ace off first  and say how unlucky you were afterwards ?}|md|C AJ543,D432,CK8762,Cqt9|pc|Ca,d2,c2,9c|sk|sn|pg||nt|Let me reveal the remaining cards and you will see that now you will lose a trick to East's Queen|sk||pg||nt|Now let us go back to the beginning revealing all the cards|md|C AJ543,D432,CK8762,Cqt9|pg||nt|you can now see the suit breaks 3:0 and had you known this you would have played your king first and then "luckily" been able to finesse East for his Queen since you still have the AJ  left|pg||nt||cs|4|at|
       {The AJ in the south hand is known as a TENACE and has to be kept in tact for as long as possible :-
                              TENACES IN TACT   or TITS to you}|pg||nt|now that we have decided to keep our AJ in tact we will play the King first|wt|n|pc|ck|pc|c9|pc|c3|pc|d2|pg||nt|because of our care we now will win all five tricks.|cs|3|at| 

              {this is only a little insurance and we were OK because all three cards were in the East hand. Had they been with West we would not be able to finesse him and would lose a trick}|pg||md|C AJ543,D432,CK8762,Cqt9|nt|BUT  a little insurance is better than none isnt it  ?|pg||bt||nt|

                  Look for a tenace in either hand|cs|4|at|

     {Now make sure you Keep that TENACE IN TACT (TITS to you)}|cs|3|at|




                              {or if you prefer RETAIN THE TENACE    
                    ("raise the Titanic"- See Ron Klinger's Book     
                                Improve  Your Bride Memory)}|cs|2|at|







          {we will deal with more examples soon}|