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Ian Hoare
 
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Default The Hideous Hog - OT

Salut/Hi Ewan McNay,

le/on Thu, 08 Apr 2004 16:00:47 -0400, tu disais/you said:-


>Tom S wrote:
>> ??? _Is_ there actually such a play? First I've heard of it.

>
>Well, yes - see e.g.
>http://www.bridgeguys.com/Squeeze/HexagonSqueeze.html - but the
>added value to your average bridge game is likely to be fairly
>modest from such knowledge .


Aha!! Another afithionado!

And you're perfectly right, of course. It's much MORE useful to be able to
do simple things like count to 13 four times.

>> various denizens of the local bridge club. Often the Hog sketches a hand
>> diagram on a napkin while draining someone else's glass of wine.


And finishing his foie gras for him - out of pure altruism, you understand.

>Sure; I enjoy David Bird's stuff in similar vein also.


I've not met this one.


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