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Alara Caravanserai (Antalya/Turkey)
Appearing as fortresses on remote roads, caravanserais (merchants'
inns) were built along the Silk Road to receive travelers, traders and
merchandise. They consist of courtyards to stable animals and rooms to
lodge the travelers. Before the discovery of the sea route to India,
Turkey was home to trade routes of the Silk Road. From
China to the Mediterranean the Silk Road was the most important connection between the
Orient and the West and the symbol of the crossroads
between civilizations, peoples and cultures. That is why the idea was
raised to revive the Silk Road by restoring the inns and caravanserais.
This project is aiming to transform the Silk Road into a route of love,
peace and brotherhood..
Alara Caravanserai is in
Antalya Region. Bathing in sunshine 300 days of year, region combines sun,
sea,
nature and history. A single, simple picture would be high treason against
this Paradise of Earth. That is why I posted two more
pictures below from the vicinity of Alara
Caravanserai that travelers and traders were visiting in the past.
Manavgat
(Antalya/Turkey)
Side
(Antalya/Turkey)
For further information about Antalya, search "Antalya" in:
http://www.turizm.gov.tr
Pictures on the
wall of caves
were also communication ways in the past. Compare below wall picture with
other similiar paintings in the world, if you want to have some idea about
the art capacity of Anatolian people.
A cave
picture found in Anatolia which was painted 5000 years ago. (Anatolian
Civilisations Museum-Ankara)
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Here are the ways to success in bridge:
1- Cut communication between
defenders,
2- Maintain communication with dummy.
Ducking, hold-up, loser-on-loser and unblocking are all the techniques for maintaining communications
between declarer and dummy or cutting the communications between defenders.
You will use these techniques automatically when you progress in bridge..
In this lesson I will just
show you how to maintain the communication which links your hand to dummy for transporting spades,
hearts, clubs and diamonds, as past traders maintained routes
which link the West to East for transporting silk, china, paper and
spices..
The suit with the solid honors
in dummy or in your hand can be used effectively for communication.. If
you don't have such solid honors, you must carefully maintain your
communications.
Look at the below hand diagram
in which declarer must play from the dummy and must win all the tricks:
Almost
all newcomers will reach to the queen of diamonds to start finessing the missing
King.. Let us see where will it go:
Dummy
played  Q, East 3
and declarer played2. Declarer continued with 9
from dummy. East
ducked again. Declarer won win 10.
From that point on he had no more chance to keep finessing (lost
communications).
Later he inevitably lost a trick to King.. If declarer
carefully played so as to
maintain the communications between his hand and the dummy he wouldn't
give any tricks to defenders:
When at the dummy declarer
should play 9 (the
last card of the sequence at the hand) not queen of diamonds for the first trick..
After winning with 9
he would continue with queen of diamonds:If East ducks again, declarer
keep finessining until winning all the four tricks.
Here is another hand diagram
in which declarer ruined his communication way, just for a penny:
West led  5
for 3 NT contract. Dummy played low, South won with 10.
Immediately unblocked A.
Then switched to diamonds by playing ace. After winning with ace of diamonds
he played 8. West
played low and declarer won with dummy's queen. This was not
what he expected. He was expecting the defenders to win with their King..
Later when he played J,
West won with K.
At this point declarer realised that he lost communication with dummy to enjoy the rest of
diamonds.. West led a club and the contract failed..
In order to maintain
communications with dummy by way of spade suit, declarer should win the
first trick with the ace of spades not ten of spades.. He would play diamonds
in the same way. But now, he has ten of spades at the hand and king at the dummy to maintain communications. He can now cross to dummy
to enjoy the rest of the diamonds.
The
below hand is taken from the page 8 of Bulletin-9 of 25th August 2002 of Montreal World
Bridge Championship of WBF (http://www.worldbridge.org)
West
led  4 and
declarer took the ace. Unblocked K
and played 6
from dummy, East win with
Q and played5.
South played low, hoping West to play jack. But West simply played 8.
Why? If West played J,
declare could easily by way of diamond suit. By refraining
to play J West
cuts communication line of declarer. Declarer won this trick at the dummy
but there was no safe way to escape from the dummy. He lost two more
tricks: Defenders ruff the third diamond and later they win a trump trick.. And contract failed..
If the declarer cashed A and K of diamonds after
unblocking K and
exit with 6, he
wouldn't be locked in the dummy.
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