Editing Squeeze play (bridge) (section)

==Context==

===Complexity===
Squeeze plays are considered by many "to be the domain of the experts but many of the positions are straightforward once the basic principles are understood."<ref>Moon (2010), Preface.</ref> And according to [[Terence Reese]], the squeeze play "in its practical aspects is not particularly difficult. It takes time, admittedly...and has...to be learned – it cannot be 'picked up'".<ref name="ReeseJourdain">Reese and Jourdain (1980), Preface.</ref>

===Significance and prevalence===
Squeeze plays are important in difficult-to-make high-level contracts and in [[Duplicate bridge#Scoring|matchpoint]] play where the taking of one more trick than generally achieved by the field is a real difference-maker likely to result in a top {{gcb|board}}. The opportunity to employ a squeeze play arises sufficiently frequently that it is essential to learn if one aspires to become an advanced player.<ref>Reese and Jourdain (1980), Preface. Reese states that "squeeze possibilities – not always fulfilled, of course – arose on about one hand in every six or seven."</ref><sup>, </sup><ref>Moon (2010), p. 23 states "about one deal in 12 contains the possibility of a squeeze."</ref>

===Terminology===
* {{gcb|busy|Busy cards}}: Cards held by defenders which are winners or protecting winners.
* {{gcb|cardreading|Card reading}}: Determining or assuming the location of the opponents' cards.
* The {{gcb|count}}: The number of tricks that must be lost before the squeeze can function.
* {{gcb|rectifythecount|Rectify the count}}: To lose the necessary number of tricks.
* [[Entry (cards)|Entry]]: A high card or trump that enables declarer to place the lead in the hand that holds, or that will hold, another card that the squeeze has established.
* {{gcb|idle|Idle cards}}: Cards that can safely be discarded by defenders (i.e., are not busy). Rectifying the count removes idle cards from the defenders' hands.
* {{gcb|menace|Menace or threat cards}}: Cards held by declarer or dummy which start out as [[Contract bridge glossary#loser|losers]], but which may be promoted to winning rank when the squeeze forces the defense to discard its stoppers. 
* Squeeze card: The card which (when led) forces the defense to discard a busy card or cards. Before the squeeze card can bring the squeeze about, several conditions described below must be met.<ref>According to the ''[[Official Encyclopedia of Bridge]]'', the concept of a squeeze card was developed by [[Sidney Lenz]]. Although ''squeeze card'' may be useful as a pedagogical device, the Encyclopedia suggests that the concept of a ''squeezed position'' is more useful at the table as a means of arriving at the position necessary for a squeeze to occur.</ref>