Ballard Street notations in tense chess like puzzle fragment
A fragmentary chess-like diagram text shows players Ballard Street and Jerry van Amerongen with scattered cards and suits. The garbled OCR mentions WEST and EAST positions with numeric sequences and face cards, but no clear game outcome or legal move sequence can be determined from the legible bits.
Bridge problems and a quip about ears and launches
Phillip Alder analyzes a bridge hand where finesses fail and a king of spades blocks South. West cashes clubs after a heart and spade sequence, leaving South with chances to overtake while avoiding a doomed finesse. The piece cross riffs with Howard Hughes and Clark Gable as an aside.
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