Editing Squeeze play (bridge) (section)

==Conditions==

The most basic forms of squeeze require all the following conditions to be in place before the squeeze can operate:<ref>Clyde Love, in ''[[Bridge Squeezes Complete]]'', uses terminology that results in the acronym BLUE to summarize these conditions: a defender must be ''busy'' in two suits, the ''loser'' count must be right, at least one threat must be in the ''upper'' hand, and there must be an ''entry'' to the threat card.</ref>
* The defense's guards in the threat suits must be held by one defender only. 
* The count has been rectified which ensures that:
**Declarer has enough winners to take all the remaining tricks but one, which is to be gained from the squeeze; and
**The defender being squeezed has no idle cards.
* Between them, declarer and dummy have threat cards in two suits that the squeeze may establish as winners:
** At least one of the threat cards must be in the hand opposite the squeeze card; and
** At least one of the threat cards must lie in the hand that plays after the squeezed defender.
* There is an entry to the threat card opposite the squeeze card.