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Bridge Enigma Who was the North?

#1 User is offline   Aberlour10 

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Posted 2008-May-22, 15:19

Four men played bridge in the palace with twenty towers...

North opened 2♠
East sweating and bid 3♥
South passed
West..(fearfully).. 4♥
North thought a while..and bid 2♠....pass,pass,pass followed (very fast)

Declarer took 9 tricks

Who was "North" ???? B)
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Posted 2008-May-22, 15:25

The real question is, who are EW when they are letting N get away with this. Personally I wouldn't allow it even if it were some King or so.
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Posted 2008-May-22, 15:52

i was going to say Henry VIII, but I don't think bridge was a game back then. So I'll go with Stalin.
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Posted 2008-May-22, 16:54

Not sure where you mean. Maybe Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed. Name seems to come up in connection with "twenty towers" on google....

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Posted 2008-May-23, 08:21

Aberlour10, on May 22 2008, 04:19 PM, said:

Four men played bridge in the palace with twenty towers...

North opened 2♠
East sweating and bid 3♥
South passed
West..(fearfully).. 4♥
North thought a while..and bid 2♠....pass,pass,pass followed (very fast)

Declarer took 9 tricks

Who was "North" ???? B)

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Posted 2008-May-23, 09:00

Vang Pao playing against the Hmong, (Meo).
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Posted 2008-May-23, 09:50

i have no idea, but if ron says it i'd probably not argue against it
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Posted 2008-May-23, 10:01

matmat, on May 22 2008, 04:52 PM, said:

So I'll go with Stalin.

Bingo!

It's a part of old bridge joke about bridge in Kremlin, Stalin plays with Berja, Molotov...... :(
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