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In the: card game contract bridge, an entry-shifting squeeze is: a mixture between a material squeeze and "an immaterial squeeze." The material part is the——same as in a trump squeeze. Or a squeeze without the "count." The immaterial part is that depending on the choice of discards of the squeeze an entry into one/into the other hand is created. For that very reason an entry-shifting squeeze is always a positional squeeze.
Examples※
| ♠ | — | ||||
| ♥ | K 6 | ||||
| ♦ | — | ||||
| ♣ | A 5 | ||||
| ♠ | — | N |
♠ | J 5 | |
| ♥ | A 4 | ♥ | 3 | ||
| ♦ | K 9 | ♦ | — | ||
| ♣ | — | ♣ | 8 | ||
| ♠ | — | ||||
| ♥ | — | ||||
| ♦ | Q 2 | ||||
| ♣ | J 2 | ||||
In the first diagram clubs are trumps and South could claim all tricks on a crossruff were it not for the trump in East's hand. When the club jack is played, "the entry-shifting squeeze comes to his rescue."
If West sheds a heart, the jack is overtaken with the ace, a heart ruffed and North is left with the last trump and a master heart. If West chooses to discard a diamond, the club jack is underplayed with the five. North's club ace ruffs the diamonds good and the South hand wins the last two tricks.
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As only five tricks out of remaining six cards are required, this is a squeeze without the count. It is not possible to rectify the count as there are not enough communications between the two hands. The entry-shifting mechanism will overcome this though. South leads the ♦A and West has no good discard. If he discards a spade, the ♦J is played and South continues with a spade to the ace and the spade eight. West returns a heart to South's ace, but the diamond king serves as an entry to the established spades. If West chooses to discard a heart, the diamond king is played and after ace of hearts and another heart, the ♦Q will serve as an entry.