JUNE 8 2019 LISTENER 61
BRIDGE by David Bird
TAKE 5
by Simon Shuker
BARDEN’S
CHESS PROBLEMS
Wordsworth
Submissions: [email protected]
or Wordsworth, NZ Listener, Private Bag
92512, Wellesley St, Auckland 1141.
Please include your address. Entries may
be edited for sense or space reasons.
This week’s challenge was to provide
new definitions for the following words:
ensorcell, hummock, fleek, bloviate,
flaperon and webinar.
Barry Grant, Christchurch: webinar –
collective déjà vu, often heard in touring
groups, as in “webinar before”.
Bridget Forbes, Wellington: webinar
- reluctance to retrieve one’s possessions
from a spider-infested attic.
Daphne Tobin, Porirua: fleek – a
vegetable you really dislike (originally a
contraction of “It’s a f---ing leek!”).
Poppy Sinclair, Karori: flaperon – an
apron used for waving under a smoke alarm.
Nozz Fletcher, Waikawa: flaperon – a
marathon Charleston competition taking
place over a weekend.
Tania We lls, Dunedin: ensorcell – to
mask the unpleasant taste of an expired
meat pie by smothering it in ketchup.
Martyn Brown, Christchurch: bloviate - to preserve the shell of a bird’s egg by
evacuating its contents.
Paul Kelly, Palmerston North: bloviate - to drift far off course in a hot-air balloon.
Oliver Redfern, Hamilton: hummock - noun for a crowd of sports fans required
to sing the second verse of our national
anthem.
Bill Stead of Poroti: flaperon – a loosely
tied tarpaulin on a trailer being towed at
excessive speed.
But the winner is David Wort, Bay of
Plenty: fleek (Australian employment law) - summary dismissal, as in, “His boss gave
him the fleek.”
For the next contest, send us a racy or
otherwise misleading title for a boring
book (either real or imagined). You may
demonstrate the book’s dullness by
adding a subtitle or providing a brief
description. For example: The Man with
the Large Package: Recollections of a
FedEx delivery agent. Entries, for the
prize below, close at noon on Thursday,
June 13.
by Gabe Atkinson
Wei Yi v Anne Haast, Tata Steel Wijk aan
Zee B, 2014
China’s Wei Yi has rewritten the record books
as he advances up the world rankings. The
Beijing teenager has a sharp tactical flair
shown in today’s puzzle diagram, for which
he sacrificed rook for knight. Black’s position
still looks defensible, but Wei now unleashed
a three-move sequence leading to checkmate
or loss of the queen. Can you do as well?
(Answer on page 62.)
Game all, Dealer South
West North East South
— — — 1S
Pass 2 S Pass 4S
All Pass
Despite holding perfect shape, West was not
worth a take-out double on his 11-count.
That’s because the ace of spades was not
pulling much weight for its four points.
How would you play the spade game when
West leads the jack of diamonds? You can
see two trump losers and a further potential
loser in each red suit. The best chance is to
discard a diamond loser on the fourth heart
in dummy. You should win the diamond lead
in your hand, preserving the diamond king
as a later entry to dummy. You then play ace,
king and another heart. This would set up a
heart winner in dummy if the suit broke 3-3.
It succeeds also when East holds a doubleton
honour, as here. West wins the third round
of hearts and plays another diamond. You
win with dummy’s king and lead the good
10 of hearts from dummy. If East ruffs low,
you overruff and play a trump, crashing
the ace and king. If East were to discard, or
ruff high with the king, you would discard
your diamond loser. There is nothing the
defenders can do. This is one of the situations
where you should not draw trumps straight
away – when you need to set up a discard for
a side-suit loser.
BIDDING QUIZ
WEST West North East South
♠ K J 7 2 — 3C Dble Pass
♥ Q 9 5 3?
♦ A 6
♣ 8 5 4
Partner’s double is for take-out. What will
you say now on the West cards?
(Answer on page 62 .)
EAST
♠
♥
♦
♣
WEST
♠
♥
♦
♣
A
Q 9 8 7
J 10 9 5
K J 9 7
SOUTH
♠
♥
♦
♣
NORTH
♠
♥
♦
♣
K 2
J 3
Q 3 2
10 8 6 5 3 2
J 7 6 4
10 6 4 2
K 7 6
Q 4
Q 10 9 8 5 3
A K 5
A 8 4
A
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