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12 Sunday. November 7. 1982 Philadelphia Inquirer LEISURE Whither diamonds? Why it's a simple deduction Mental as Good post Anything: punk pop South dealer Both sides vulnerable NORTH 484 VJ63 OKQ82 A 10 5 4 Bridge By Alfred Sheinwold Los Angeles Times Syndicate In the course of your daydreams you have surely cast yourself as the Great Detective. i There are few murders at the bridge table, but you get many opportunities to improve your results by using the methods of the Great Detective. For example, Sherlock Holmes would have made today's contract.

The actual declarer took the first trick with the ace of spades and led a diamond to dummy's king. East discarded a club, and South's, jaw dropped to his knee. Maybe South could have made the contract by executing the dread Hip-per-Dipper-Schmipper, but he actually lost two spades, two hearts and a -diamond. Mt(, "You make it if start the diamonds by leading the ace," North stated accusingly. "That's true," South 'admitted.

"But I'd go cjown by leading the ace if it turned out that the four diamonds were at my right rather than at my left. How could I tell who had four diamonds?" You may not like the way South1 played the hand, but you must give him. credit for statjng the problem Focus on pawn costs Here are reviews by an Inquirer music critic of new Mental As Anything, an Australian band that at its best sounds like Squeeze playing with the Beau Brum-mels, offers smart, catchy pop with coarse but attractive vocals and the best melodies of. the month on "If You Leave Me, Can 1 Come Too? (AM). Although the hit single in its homeland is "The Nips Are Getting Bigger," almost any other tune on this debut is stronger that is, lighter, more amusing and more concise.

This is pure pop for post-punk people. RONALD SHANNON JACKSON AND THE DECODING SOCIETY Man Dance (Antilles); Jackson is a drunrner. "whose ideas rhythm, derive from- Ameripan and ii African funk as welJ as from, his stints with innovators such as Ornette Coleman and James Blood Ulmer. On "Man Dance." he attaches real melodies to his compositions, then surrounds them with polyrhythms that tear through the tunes with mesmerizing ease. Knotty, compelling music.

EDDIE RABBITT Radio Romance (Elek-tra); Rabbitt's smiling-stud persona gets more oflehsive with every album, even as his music improves. What can you do with a guy whose melodies melt country into early rock 'n' roll with smooth skill; yet chooses to cover songs in which he sounds obnoxiously self-righteous? RUBBER RODEO Rubber Rodeo (Eatum EP): This Connecticut new-wave country band (you heard me) offers six songs that make honky-tonk sound like the neurosis in town, but it doesn't play it for laughs. Instead of making campy urban country musie, Rodeo forces country music to take on the ironic humor and energy of American new-wave. I don't know if the band can sustain it either on stage or over the course of a whole album, but this EP is certainly both fun and edifying. Top-selling records TOP SINGLES 1.

UP WHERE WE BELONG. Joe Cocker Jennifer Warnes 2. WHO CAN IT BE Men at Work 3. HEART ATTACK. Olivia Newton-John 4.

I KEEP FORGE TTIN', Michael McDonald 5. JACK AND DIANE, John Cougar 6. EYE IN THE SKY, Alan Parsons Project 7. HEARTLIGHT, Neil Diamond 8. YOU CAN DO MAGIC.

America 9. GLORIA, Laura Branigan 10. TRULY, Lionel Richie TOP ALBUMS 1. AMERICAN FOOL, John Cougar 2. MIRAGE.

Fleetwood Mac 3. NEBRASKA, Bruce Springsteen 4. BUSINESS AS USUAL, Men at Work 5. EMOTIONS IN MOTION, Billy Squier 6. IF THAT'S WHAT IT TAKES, Michael McDonald 7.

EYE IN THE SKY, The Alan Parsons Project 8. IT'S HARD, The Who 9. ABRACADABRA, The Steve Miller Band 10, A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS. A Flock of Seagulls BLACK SINGLES 1. SEXUAL HEALING, Marvin Cave 2.

777-9311, The Time 3. BAD BOY HAVING A PARTY, Luther Vandross 4. IF THIS WORLD WERE MINE, Cheryl Lynn with Luther Vandross 5. LOVE'S COMIN' AT YA, Melba Moore 6. MUSCLES, Diana Ross 7.

I KEEP FORGE TTIN', Michael McDonald 8. TRULY, Lionel Richie 9. LOVE COME DOWN, Evelyn King 10. 1999, Prince BLACK ALBUMS 1. FOREVER.

FOR ALWAYS. FOR LOVE. Luther Vandross 2. WHAT TIME IS The Time WEST 10 7 2 10 2 0 9 7 4 Q6 EAST 9 6 3 9 8 5 0 None J9732 SOUTH A 5 4 0 A 10653 K8 South West North East 1 NT Pass 3 NT All Pass Opening lead 2 have at least one diamond, South can afford to start the diamonds leading the ace. "n- When East discards on the first diamond, South leads another diamond.

West piay put in the nine, but dummy wins with the queen, and South returns to his hand, with the king of clubs to lead another diamond through West. After dummy has taken the third and fourth diamond, South gets back to his hand with a spade to cash his fifth diamond assuring the contract. the game 20 RxN PxR 21 NxKP Q-K3 If 21 PxB 22NxPch, forking winning Q. 22 R-Kl PxB 23 NxBPch, K-B2 24 Q-N7ch Resigns if 24 KxN 25 RxQch KxR 26 QxR with an easy win, or 24 N-Q2 25 RxQ KxR 26 NxN and again it's an easy win. Solution to Chess Test 498' 1 KxQ 2 K-Kl 3 R-Q8 mate Conection and apology In the diagram of Chess Test 497 the pawn at black's KN3 should have been black, not white.

Tty'n white draws by perpetual check as in the solution in The Inquirer on Oct. 31.. 4991 NHiiilt 14991 White to Play and Win VASITSA-ELACK PI ft sfl iH mm KRETCHMAR-WHITE Solution Next Week New albums PHAST PHREDDIE AND TMPP Docn. SIONS West Hollywood Freeze-Out (Bompj: mast Hhreddie is Los Angeles finest rork student rtici-riminofi mtji lain iy iiauri I er who's both a scholar an'd a fanatic. As the front man for this group of Hollywood white- blues players, Phreddie sings in a growl thai never parodies his models (Hmuiin' iaah Muddy Waters), Instead, he yelps like a devoted fan, and his modesty is becoming The band's pretty sharp too slight, but a gooa party record.

ANTI-NOWHERE LEAGUE We Are. the League (Faulty): The most viscious. mean- spirited, gratuitously -violent punk band to come down the pike in a long time. Get the picture? Now that I've warned you, I'll also say that for mature adults, this is the ht hard-core punk record England has yielded since ine bex Pistols era. Every song fea tures a slamming, inescapable beat to match the freely flung obscenities.

THE OSMOND BROTHERS The Osmond Brothers Elektra): For the record, as it wprr this is the Brothers' move into country music. Sort of like the poor man's Statler Brothers. Very poor. Two of them grew beards for the occasion. One of them has a moustache.

Does this mean that MariP recording a Barbara Mandrell-clone album? T-I i nidi migni worK. ABC Lexicon of Love (Polygram): Per Englishmen who specialize in effete (crinHy gold suits, artfully tousled hnir) making pr, sy dance music, light on the beat and heavy on the sort of maundering crooning that effete English rock musicians frequently mis take for passion. Ken Tucker Excellent Very good Good Fair Poor. 3. GET LOOSE.

Evelyn King 4. LIONEL RICHIE. Lionel Richie 5. AS ONE. Kool Gang 6.

JUMP TO IT, Aretha Franklin 7. SILK ELECTRIC, Diana Ross 8. VANITY 6, Vanity 6 9. GAP BAND IV, Gap Band 10. IF THAT'S WHAT IT TAKES, Michael McDonald COUNTRY SINGLES 5.

YOU'RE SO GOOD WHEN YOU'RE BAD, Charley Pride 2. BREAK IT TO ME GENTLY, Juice Newton 3. MISTAKES, Don Williams 4. WAR IS HELL, T.G. Sheppard 5.

HEARTBROKE, Ricky Skagqs 6. CLOSE ENOUGH TO PERFECT Alabama 1. WE DID BUT NOW YOU Conway Twitty 8. LOVE'S GONNA FALL HERE TONIGHT, Raiy Bailey 9. EVER, NEVER LOVIN' YOU, Ed Bruce 10.

OPERATOR, LONG DISTANCE PLEASE, Barbara Mandrell COUNTRY ALBUMS 1 ALWAYS ON MY MIND, Willie Nelson 2. JUST SYLVIA, Sylvia 3. MOUNTAIN MUSIC, Alabama 4. A TASTE OF YESTERDAY WINE, Merle Haggard-George Jones 5. HIGHWAYS' ARE HERTACHFS.

Ricky Skjgys 6. WAITIN' FOR THE SUN TO SHINE, Ricky Skaqgs -1 7. BIG CITY, Merle Haggard 8. HANK WILLIAMS GREATEST HITS, Hank Williams Jr'. 9.

OUIET LIES, Juice Newton 10. FAMILY'S FINE BUT THIS ONE'S MINE, David Frizzell Source: Billboard magazine more or less correctly. South's contract is easy if he avoids the loss of a diamond trick Is it a pure guess, or would Sherlock Holmes know how to play the diamonds? It's quite possible for East to have no (In fact, that happens to be the Sherlock Holmes knows that West started with only four spades. (Most defenders lead fourth highest from a broken suit; and when the lead is the deuce, the leader has three cards higher but cannot have any cards lower, than his lead.) If West has no diamonds, he must nine cards in hearts and clubs combined; and therefore must have a suit of at le.ast five cardsT If so, he would lead from his five-Card suit. (This isn't invariably true, since sometimes the opening leader's longest suit has been bid by declarer or dummy, the principle is fairly reliable when no suits have been bid.) i Since West did actually lead a spade he cannot logically have a five-card suit and therefore cannot be void of diamonds.

Since West must Chess Position After 15 Q-N3! MAROCZY-BLACK 111 i IH IT ill 1 mm Rn'W 38 EUWE-WHITE 11 B-Q3 12 PxB 13 BxB 14 0-0 BxNch BxP? P-KB4 PxB So Maroczy has achieved his objective; the price is to 15 Q-N3! P-B4 'Black must stop 16 QxNP and da-, ren't play 15 PxN 16 QxNP PxP 17, Q-B8ch Q-Ql 18 R-B8ch KxR 19 QxQch. 16 B-R3 N-KB3 17 BxP B2 i is p-B4! Euwe maintains his pressure on black's QNP even though his is en prise. 18 P-QN3 Black avoids 18. PxN, because of 19 QR-Klch K-Ql 20 R-K7 Q-N3 (threatening mate) 21 QxBP N-B3 22 RxQNP R-QB1 23 P-Q5 N-K4 24 Q-QR3. 19 N-N5 Q-Q2 By Leroy Dubeck and J.A.

Livingston Plotting to win a pawn in the opening can be costly, even for a redoubt' able grandmaster. This is what Geza Maroczy, of Hungary, discovered to his discomfiture in a match game against youthful Max Euwe in 1921. Euwe, with the white pieces, demonstrated the skill and initiative that enabled him to wrest the world championship from Alexandre Alek-hine in 1935. Euwe offered Maroczy the King's Gambit, which the Hungarian refused. Maroczy proceeded to concentrate his pieces on white's KP, neglecting development to do so.

That proved his undoing. Euwe built up an attack, sacrificed first the exchange and theh'a bishop, and-for a long period left a knight hanging. But Maroczy. despite a material advantage, was lost The, victory enabled Euwe, who was then only 20, to tie the match 2-to-2 with eight KING'S GAMBIT DECLINED White Black Euwe Maroczy 1 P-K4' 'J P-K4 2 P-KB4 B-B4 3 N-KB3 P-Q3 4 P-B3 -B-KN5 5, PxP PxP So far both players have resorted to the book; this is a standard variation in the King's Gambit Declined. 6 Q-R4ch B-Q2 7.

Q-B2 Q-K2 8 P-Q4 PxP 9 PxP B-N5ch 10 N-B3 B-B3 Maroczy is intent on winning white's KP; white cannot play 11 P-Q5 because of BxP..