DISTRIBUTIONAL VALUES
To exemplify the power of distribution in relation to the number of values held in certain card combinations, we need only to turn to Agent 007, otherwise known as James Bond.
It was in the film Moonraker where James Bond played a hand of bridge against the arch-villain Hugo Drax.
The cast was:
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Lois Chiles: |
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Michael Lonsdale: |
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Roger Moore as 007 - Lois Chilis as Dr. Holly Goodhead |
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Michael Lonsdale as Hugo Drax and Richard Kiel as Jaws |
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The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and directed by Lewis Gilbert, and was filmed on location in Venice, Rio DeJaneiro, and France.
The film was release in the United States on June 29, 1979.
The mission of James Bond and the CIA Operative Holly Goodhead was to stop a modern day Armageddon. Hugo Drax was obsessed with the conquest of outer space, in order to destroy the planet Earth, and then to create a race of beautiful people living in the heavens, worshipping him.
James Bond, during the film, challenges Hugo Drax to a game of bridge which was to symbolically illustrate the power of distributional values in relation to possessed values. Of course, James Bond devised a manner to stack the deck before the cards were dealt, and properly placed Hugo Drax, so that he was sitting West of James Bond, who sat South. The deal was as follows:
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North/South are vulnerable.
South, James Bond, is the dealer and promptly opens: 1 Club.
West, Hugo Drax, doubles.
North, Bond's partner, as pre-arranged, jumps to: 7 Clubs.
East passes.
South passes.
West, Hugo Drax, doubles.
North passes.
East passes.
South, James Bond, redoubles.
All pass.
As the cards lie, East has to lead, and it does not matter what East leads, the contract of 7 Clubs redoubled can not be defeated. James Bond writes down 2660 on the scorepad.
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