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Compound Squeeze - The combination of both a triple squeeze followed
up by a double squeeze. The requirements for the
Compound Squeeze
include:
| 1. |
Declarer holds one threat
stopped by only one defender, with the threat card sitting behind the
Declarer. |
| 2. |
Declarer must have doubly
stopped threat cards in two other suits, along with associated entries
back into hand. |
| 3. |
Two successive squeezes are required to qualify as a Compound
Squeeze. |
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Q J
9
5
K 9
4 |
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8 7
6
3
Q
10
5 |
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K 9
5
7
J
8
7 |
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A 4
Q
J
4
A
6 |
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In a Notrump
contract, South needs all 7 tricks to make the contract with only 5 sure
tricks. In this scenario West will attempt to guard
Spades, while East plans to protect the Club suit. The Declarer
cashes three Hearts,
forcing West to discard 3 times - seeing three Clubs in dummy, West begins
with the Spade 3 but is
forced to pitch two more black card and so elects to abandon the Clubs suit
and pitches the Club 5 and
10. East begins
discarding the stiff Diamond
and after watching partner West pitch two Club, must now pitch two
Spades and bare down to the
stiff Spade King in order to keep parity length with dummy's Clubs. From the
dummy, after playing the first two
Hearts and seeing West abandon the Club suit, declarer discards the
Spade Jack from dummy. On
trick 4 and noting West earlier pitched two Club, South now plays the
Club Ace and is relieved to
see West's Club Queen drop.
Then on trick 5 South play the Club
6 to dummy's Club King,
with West pitching the Spade 6
and East following with a low Spade.
Since one of the opponents have the outstanding promoted Club Jack, declarer
plays the Spade Ace and is relieved to find East's stiff Spade King is
blanked and dummy's Spade Queen has been promoted on a second squeeze - the
essential requirement for a Compound Squeeze.
Also see Squeezes and Bridge Books on
Squeezes
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