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THE INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE PRESS ASSOCIATION Editor: ...... PATRICK D JOURDAIN

This Bulletin is published monthly and circulated to around 500 members of the International Bridge Press Association comprising the world’s leading journalists, authors and editors of news, books and articles about , with an estimated readership of some 200 million people who enjoy the BULLETIN most widely played of all card games www.IBPA.com No 439 Year 2001 Date 12 August [email protected]

President: he previous Bulletin was dedicated to the Europeans in Tenerife. HENRY G FRANCIS 6875 Stornaway Drive Regarding the possible suspension of the Spanish Bridge Federation, fol- Memphis, TN 38119 USA lowing intervention by Spain’s Minister of Culture and Sport, the EBL (1) 901 754 3405 F: 901 398 7754 T Email: [email protected] deferred the date by which Spain had to reach agreement on its debts to this month. Executive Vice-President: JEAN-PAUL MEYER This Bulletin reports on several events in America. Rose Meltzer, by 34 rue de docteur Blanche 75016 Paris, FRANCE making the USA 2 team, becomes the first woman for 36 years to represent the (33) 1 4296 2550 F: 1 4020 9234 USA in the . USA 1 is America’s top team, Nickell. But the Email: [email protected] went to the Jacobs team containing the four Italians who won the last Organizational Vice-President: Olympiad and who will be going to Bali as World and European champions. PER E JANNERSTEN Villa Cicero * * * * * * * * * S-77400 Avesta, SWEDEN Email: [email protected] e-bridge is offering IBPA members a second clippings competition (full details inside). Any clipping mentioning e-bridge not sent in for the one held in Tenerife Chairman: is eligible. Send physical clippings to Maureen Dennison and electronic ones to 3333 Henry Hudson Parkway Eric Kokish (let Eric know whether you have also sent a copy to Maureen, so Bronx. NY 10463 USA Email: [email protected] there is no double-counting). The draw will take place in Bali. * * * * * * * * * Secretary: Mrs MAUREEN DENNISON 148 Thornbury Road, Osterley No contact has been achieved with IBPA’s Executive Editor, David Rex- Isleworth TW7 4QE, ENGLAND UK Taylor. Our Membership Secretary received an unidentified call saying he has (44) 20 8560 3788 F: 20 8568 3553 Email: [email protected] left his home, suffering from stress. David has printed the Bulletin for almost twenty years. If any member has news of his whereabouts please let us know. Membership Secretary: Dr STUART STAVELEY Anna Gudge has been appointed to be responsible for the printing and Rhu-na-Bidh, Shieldaig, Strathcarron Ross-shire IV54 8XN SCOTLAND UK distribution of the Bulletin pending further information. (44) 1520 755 217 F: 1520 755 355 Ron Tacchi has updated the Personal details for the forthcoming IBPA Treasurer: Handbook and Anna Gudge has printed your own details on the sheet accom- HANS CHRISTER ANDERSSON Arstagatan 20 C panying this Bulletin. Don’t throw it away! It gives not only your address, 75434 Uppsala, SWEDEN telephone numbers, and e-mail address, but details such as year of birth, (46) 18 253584 O: 18 175764 Email: [email protected] occupation, authorship, newspapers and world bridge titles. Please check these carefully and report any errors or amendments to Tacchi (for address see note Honorary General Counsel: WILLIAM J PENCHARZ inside). 5 Gt College St. London SW1P 3SJ UK * * * * * * * * * Email: [email protected] Radek Kielbasinski, referring to the last Editorial, says that the Generali Awards Secretary: BARRY J RIGAL support for the WBF Olympic event was for Lausanne not Warsaw. In War- 196 6th Avenue, Apt 6b saw, for the first European Olympic Committee Tournament, organised by the New York, NY 10013 USA Email: [email protected] Polish Bridge Union and the EBL, the support came from CA-IB Poland (Creditanstalt Investment Banken) as the main sponsor. The event’s full name Sponsored Members’ Secretary: IRENA CHODOROWSKA was: 1st E.O.C. - CA IB Trophy. UI Sewastopolska 3m41 02-758 Warsaw, POLAND Radek takes the opportunity to announce that the support from CA-IB contin- Email: [email protected] ues and the 2nd CA IB Trophy will take place in Warsaw in November 9-11. Bulletin Printed & Distributed by: – Editor ANNA GUDGE The Old Railway Station Address all editorial correspondence to: PATRICK D JOURDAIN Long Melford, Suffolk C010 9HN England Flat 8, Felin Wen, Rhiwbina, Cardiff, Wales CF14 6NW Email: [email protected] Tel: (44) 29 2062 8839 Fax: (44) 29 2061 5234 Email: [email protected] 1 JACOBS WINS SPINGOLD, Levin & Weinstein take Life Masters Pairs Summer North American Championships, Toronto, Canada 13-29th July 2001 From Daily Bulletins: Editors Henry Francis, Brent Manley, Kent & Chyah Burghard

137 teams competed in the Spingold knockout. In the Dealer: East [ J 8 5 4 final the team led by George Jacobs (Ralph Katz, Vul: Omitted ] K 8 6 2 Lorenzo Lauria - Alfredo Versace, Norberto Bocchi - { Q J 8 3 Giorgio Duboin of USA & Italy) originally seeded 3, } J beat Michael Moss (Fred Chang, Jeff Schuett, Kerry [ 9 [ K 7 6 Smith) seed 29. The Daily Bulletin did not give a score, ] A Q J 10 7 3 ] 9 the Press Room closed early. Jacobs had survived the { 9 7 5 2 { A K 10 4 round of 16 match v. O’Rourke by only 4 IMPs. } 10 3 } K 9 8 7 2 In the semifinal Jacobs beat Nick Nickell (Jeff [ A Q 10 3 2 Meckstroth, Eric Rodwell, Bob Hamman, Paul Soloway, ] 5 4 Richard Freeman) No. 2 seed by 153-142 and Moss beat { 6 the no. 32 seed Brigitte Mavromichalis (Terje Aa - } A Q 6 5 4 Glenn Grotheim of Norway, Paul, Justin and Jason Hackett of England) 146-125. West North East South In the quarters Mavromichalis beat Jack Soloway Hamman Coleman (Chris Compton, Cezary Balicki - Adam 1{ 1[ Zmudzinski, - Aleksander Petrunin) 3] 4[ All Pass seed 9 USA + winners from Poland and Rus- sia 151-133; Moss beat Mark Gordon 130-115; Nickell beat Richard Schwartz 108-99; and Jacobs beat Gerald West led a diamond ducked to East’s ten. Hamman Sosler 223-71. switched to his singleton heart, taken by the ace, and Soloway returned ]Q, Hamman ruffing away dummy’s The holder and top seed Rose Meltzer, the USA2 king. Now what? team for the Bermuda Bowl, lost in the round of 64 to seed 64 Michael Levinson by 89-134! Seed 6, Steve Hamman switched to the king of trumps, stick- Robinson also went out then, with the round of 32 see- ing declarer in the wrong hand to take the club . ing the fall of seed 4 Jimmy Cayne to Moss 127-132 If East had tried to cash a diamond at trick four and (, -Paul declarer succeeds by cross-ruffing and can set up a dia- Chemla) seed 5, to Mark Gordon 136-144. mond trick. But the game also makes easily if East switches to a low . Declarer wins in dummy, takes the club finesse, cashes the ace of clubs and cross-ruffs * The ACBL Computer Championship was won by Jack, the rest. developed by Hans Kuijf of the . In the 64- final of Funbridge.com event Jack beat But as Hamman had switched to the king of Microbridge 136-84. In an 8 board exhibition match the trumps, South was on play and could only take the club two computers teamed-up to lose to Pinhas Romik-Sam finesse by using up another trump lead to reach dummy. Lev, Jacek Pszczola-Piotr Gawrys by 18 IMPs. The clubs failed to break and declarer was left with a losing club.

* Larry King, former promoter of the Womens Tennis Tour and husband to tennis star Billie Jean King, is plan- * David Silber, CEO to the ACBL from 1998 was re- ning to launch a Pro Bridge Tour. He said “we think we ported as announcing he was leaving the job at the end can do it in Houston”, referring to the Spring Nationals of the month. No reason was given. Wayne Hascall is to there next year. Initially the tournaments are to be funded act as interim CEO of the ACBL until a new CEO is through fees of $200 per player for 4-session appointed. events, with most being returned in prize money. On this deal from the Spingold, Bob Hamman, defend- * The ACBL and Canadian Charity Foundations gave ing at trick four, found the only card in his hand to de- $10,000 to the local Toronto charity, Daily Bread Food feat the game: Bank.

2 Life Masters Pairs (156 Pairs) Dealer: North [ J E/W Game ] A Q J 10 6 4 3 1. Robert Levin-Steve Weinstein 2579 { A Q 8 2 2. Ralph Katz – Gary Cohler 2504 } 8 3. Robert Gookin – Earl Glickstein 2472 [ 8 7 5 4 [ K Q 3 4. – Kit Woolsey 2413 ] K 7 ] 8 5 2 { 10 9 3 { K J 6 5 } K 9 6 2 } A 5 3 This deal from the 2nd session of the semifinal features [ A 10 9 6 3 2 the winners. South’s opening was Strong Club and ] 9 Weinstein, West, reached 4]: { 7 4 } Q J 10 7 4

Dealer: East [ 10 8 7 5 3 E/W Game ] 9 2 West North East South { 10 9 8 5 Czyzowicz Demuy Wolpert Heller } 8 7 1] Dble 1[ [ 6 [ K J 9 2 Pass 3] All Pass ] A K 10 8 3 ] Q J 7 5 { Q 3 2 { J 7 } A 5 3 2 } Q J 6 Darren Wolpert, East, led [K to dummy’s ace. Demuy [ A Q 4 led {7 and let West’s ten hold. A trump switch ran to ] 6 4 dummy’s bare nine, and a second diamond went to the { A K 6 4 eight and jack. East tried [Q, but Demuy ruffed, dropped } K 10 9 4 ]K and then ran all his trumps. In the three-card ending East had to keep {Kx and, to avoid being endplayed jettisoned the }A. West came down to }K, a diamond West North East South Weinstein Levin and a small club. Demuy cashed {A to extract West’s Pass 1} exit on which he threw dummy’s winning spade, and 1] Pass 3] Pass then led a club to winkle a club trick at the end. 4] All Pass IBPA Editor: Well-played! East might have spotted the advantage of cashing }A before he played the second spade. Then he will safely come to a diamond at the North led }8 to the queen, king and ace. With South end. marked with all the missing high cards declarer faced four losers. A finesse of [9 would not help, as two club discards were required. So Weinstein crossed to dummy * George Retek of Montreal, WBF Treasurer, has been with a trump and led a low spade off the dummy. South elected ACBL President for the year 2002 when the went in the queen, cashed one high diamond, and then World Championships take place in Montreal. cleared the club jack. Weinstein now led the nine of spades. * The ACBL Educational Foundation set aside $80,000 This gave him the genuine chance of South hold- to fund a fulltime worker to bring bridge into America’s ing [AQ doubleton, but it also worked when South erred After-school Clubs (Youth Underground Consortium). by rising with [A ( IBPA Editor: Did not North give count For further details contact Barbara Heller on: on the first spade?). Weinstein ruffed, returned to dummy with a trump, and now had two winning spades for the [email protected] two club discards he needed to make the game. * A Mini-Spingold for low master-point holders is run This deal from the semifinal features Junior Vincent for those who do not wish to enter the main event. By Demuy of Montreal who represents Canada in the WBF his declarer play on this deal Vincent Wilmot suggested World Junior Teams this month in Rio: he should have been in the Open event:

3 Dealer: West [ Q J 10 8 2 Dealer: South [ J 8 6 Love all ] J 9 5 4 2 Game All ] 9 7 6 4 { 10 { J 8 2 } 8 6 } 8 7 2 [ K 9 7 4 3 [ A 5 [ 10 9 7 5 [ A K 4 3 ] K 8 6 ] A Q ] A 3 ] K Q J 2 { A J { K 8 7 5 4 { 5 3 { 7 6 } A 9 2 } K Q 4 3 } A K 10 5 4 } J 9 6 [ 6 [ Q 2 ] 10 7 3 ] 10 8 5 { Q 9 6 3 2 { A K Q 10 9 4 } J 10 7 5 } Q 3

West North East South On this deal from the second final of the Life Master Wilmot Bauman Pairs, opened an off-shape 1NT as South. 1NT 2{ 3{ Pass This was Passed round to East who doubled, intending 3NT Pass 4} Pass it as “protective”. West was pleased to Pass, and North, 4[ Pass 6NT All Pass Richard Coren, made an SOS redouble, hoping for a safer spot. Sutherlin, thinking this was for real, Passed. North’s 2{ showed both majors The defence has 11 tricks to cash for a penalty of 2800. Coren had some words to say about SOS redoubles as he put down dummy. But he should have waited. North led [Q, taken by dummy’s ace. Wilmot finessed West’s lead was fourth highest of his longest suit. {J, but when he cashed the ace discovered South held Sutherlin won the }Q and showed his six diamond five. Declared unblocked the top hearts in dummy, re- tricks, claiming +760. turned to [K (South throwing a heart) and then cashed the third heart throwing a club from dummy. South had to keep all his diamonds or declarer could cross to a * e-bridge formed an agreement with the Polish Bridge club and clear the diamonds. So South was also forced Union allowing players from Poland to participate on e- to throw a club. Now declarer cashed his three clubs bridge at a cheaper rate. ending in dummy and exited with {7 to South. * The was won by Jill Meyers * The American Bridge Teachers Association gave its (Ed Davis, Mitch Dunitz, Iftikhar Baquai). Meyers won Annual Award to ’s “Commonly Used Con- the final 138-132, v. Rose Meltzer (fresh from becom- ventions”, and its Software Award to Mike Lawrence’s ing USA2 in the Bermuda Bowl, see elsewhere in this CD-ROM “Conventions and the Judgement to Make issue). Them Work”. Max Hardy became an Honor Member. * Peter Boyd & Steve Robinson won the IMP Pairs. 260 * The table count of 16,079.5 (the sum through 20+ ses- pairs competed. sions, so the maximum in play at one moment is about a thousand tables) put Toronto 2001 ninth on the all-time * In the final of the Womens KO Teams Kathie Wei- top attendances: Sender (Betty Ann Kennedy, Juanita Chambers, Janice 1. Las Vegas 1991 24,221; 2. Toronto 1986 21,075; 3. Seamon-Molson, Jill Levin, and ) beat the Las Vegas 1985 19,827.5; 4. Las Vegas 1979 18,517.5; team to represent Canada in the in Bali, 5. Toronto 1978 18,408; 6. Washington 1993 18,270; 7. Dianna Gordon, Katie Thorpe, Sharyn Reus, Francine Baltimore 1987 17,027; 8. Toronto 1992 16,680; 9. Cimon, Martine Lacroix, Ina Demme npc Ralph Cohen Toronto 2001 16,079.5; 10. Washington 1973 16,043. 170-102.

* Hall of Fame inductees were: Eric Murray, Sami * Four young players from Turkey (Ata Aydin-Gokhan Kehela, Alan Truscott, Lew Stansby, Richard Freeman Yilmaz, Ergun Guhadar-Cengiz Arigon) tied for 16-17th and deceased: Peter Leventritt, Bobby Nail, (further elsewhere).

4 The World Junior Pairs and Junior Camp in Poland By (USA) & (Eng), Stargard and Insko, Poland, July 2001 Results: back page of previous Bulletin

The venue for the 2001 World Junior Pairs was Stargard, and ruffed a club he was at the crossroads. a couple of hundred miles from Berlin, the arrival point East had passed originally and had already shown for many of the visitors. This resulted in logistical night- up with 8 points, so could not hold [A. Missing this mare for the Polish Bridge Federation, and a significant clue declarer led a spade to the king and had to lose a delay in the Opening Ceremony. Happily, that was re- third spade in the ending for - 300 and 211/216 for the ally pretty much the last thing to go wrong with the Pairs Netherlanders. event, and the camp that followed at Insko, a pictur- At the end of the first session Schifko and Gloyer esque resort town 50 km away. But a special debt of had taken an early lead and maintained it. The top ten, thanks must go to Radek Kielbasinski and to the team not surprisingly, was well-stocked with Polish pairs. of helpers and translators who managed to cope with Drijver and Brink were keeping up the pressure on the the needs of 250 fractious juniors without losing their Austrians in second place. Here was one that got away patience or their sunny demeanours. from their opponents. When the bridge started two of the ante-post Dealer South [ K 10 7 4 2 favourites were the Austrians Andreas Gloyer - Martin Love all ] 10 6 5 Schifko, the former defending his title, and Bas Drijver { 6 5 - Sjoert Brink who had shown themselves to be one of } 6 4 2 the top Dutch pairs over the last five years. [ Q 9 [ 5 ] J 4 3 2 ] K 9 7 Dealer: South [ 10 4 3 { Q 10 9 3 { A K J 8 7 4 E/W Game ] 10 7 5 4 2 } A 9 3 } K J 8 { A Q 10 [ A J 8 6 3 } 8 7 ] A Q 8 [ A Q [ J 8 6 5 { 2 ] K 9 8 3 ] A } Q 10 7 5 { J 9 8 { K 6 5 4 3 } K 5 3 2 } J 10 4 West North East South [ K 9 7 2 Drijver Brink ] Q J 6 1[ { 7 2 Pass 3[ Dble Pass } A Q 9 6 4] Pass Pass Dble All Pass

West North East South Brink Drijver Best defence is to lead spades till the cows come home and force declarer, but North led a top spade and shifted Pass Pass 1NT to a club, letting Drijver win in hand and lead a heart to Pass 2{ Pass 2] the nine and queen. Back came a second spade, ruffed Pass Pass Dble All Pass in dummy, and South then won his ace of hearts to lead a third spade. But Drijver ruffed and drew trumps and then had the rest. Note though that South might have Kees Tammens, who is well known as both Captain and had a resource; perhaps he should have ducked the nine Coach of the Dutch Junior players - apart from being a of hearts - a lot easier to do in theory than at the table. top class player in his own right - showed me this deal, Declarer still has a spade loser so cannot draw trumps, as a good start for his Dutchmen. but if he plays to a spade, then when South gets N/S often went plus here, but after the weak no-trump back on lead in trumps the defence have control to force and transfer to hearts, Bas Drijver reopened with a take- declarer again. out double and Sjoert Brink converted this to penalties. Going into the final set the Austrians’ only serious threats Brink led a diamond. Drijver took the ten with his were the Dutch. In the end Gloyer and Schifko man- king and shifted to a top club, to the queen and king. aged to see their opponents off by a top and a half with West returned a diamond, and declarer played a trump another fine set. Final scores: to the bare ace, letting Drijver shift to a low spade to the 1. Gloyer-Schifko 15132 queen. Back came a third diamond, on which declarer 2. Drijver-Brink 14821 pitched a spade. When he knocked out ]K, a third trump 3. Mazzadi-Lo Presti 14266 came back to put declarer in hand. When he played }A 5 This was an example of the winners’ accurate slam bidding. Manolis led his diamond, the best chance for the de- Dealer East [ 10 6 fence, to the jack and ace. N/S Game ] 10 6 Declarer can succeed by drawing precisely two { K J 8 7 4 3 rounds of trumps before playing on clubs. When Reshef } 5 4 2 drew all the trumps and led }J from hand Manolis [ 8 2 [ A K 9 7 5 played the nine to show an odd number and Haraldsson ] K 9 3 2 ] 7 ducked, essential for the defence. Now Reshef crossed { A 10 { Q 9 to the top diamond in dummy, seeing the bad split, and } A K 10 9 3 } Q J 8 7 4 led }K, covered and ruffed. Declarer now cashed the [ Q J 4 3 ace of spades, preparatory to exiting with a spade to ] A Q J 8 5 4 endplay East. That works as East has to concede an ex- { 6 5 2 tra entry to dummy allowing the clubs to be set up … } — but Haraldsson unblocked his king of spades under the West North East South ace and now declarer had no chance anymore. Schifko Gloyer Nick Brink, South, playing with Gitte Bruno, found an 1[ 2] 3} Pass 4} Pass ingenious way to squeeze a quart out of a pint pot on the 4{ Pass 4] Pass following deal, with a little help from the defence: 5} Pass 6} All Pass A brave bid by Gloyer to raise to slam, but with his Dealer West [ A 7 6 5 spade controls and extra distribution he could not really Love all ] 9 settle any lower. While there was a danger that they were { A J 5 3 off two aces, his partner figured to have two first round } K 6 5 4 controls to make the slam try. As the cards lay, with North having the king of diamonds, and in any event a [ J 4 [ Q 8 3 natural heart lead, 12 tricks were a formality. ] A J 7 6 3 2 ] 10 8 5 4 { 2 { Q 10 9 7 The Junior Camp took place down the road from the Pairs venue. The Post Office Recreation Camp at } Q 9 8 7 } J 10 Insko was both comfortable, and well-situated for a jun- [ K 10 9 2 ior bridge event (distractions were sufficiently far away). ] K Q In the inaugural Individual, attendance was higher than { K 8 6 4 the number of juniors, since the camp organizers and } A 3 2 directors joined in too. One of the best defences by a junior, and cer- tainly one in the running for an award this year was West North East South found by Haraldsson and Manolis. 2] Dble 3] 4[ All Pass

Dealer West [ Q West led ]A and shifted to a diamond, won in hand. E/W Game ] A Q J Nick knew that diamonds were not splitting, so he drew { K Q 8 4 two rounds of trumps and cashed ]K to pitch a club } K Q 8 3 2 from dummy. Then he played the top clubs and exited [ J 10 9 6 4 3 2 [ K 8 with a third club to West (as East pitched a heart): ] 5 3 ] 8 7 4 { 5 { J 10 6 2 [ 7 6 } 9 5 4 } A 10 7 6 ] — [ A 7 5 { A J 5 ] K 10 9 6 2 } — { A 9 7 3 [ — [ Q } J ] J 7 6 3 ] 10 West North East South { — { Q 10 7 Manolis Grue Haraldsson Reshef } 9 } — Pass 1} Pass 1[ [ 10 9 Pass 2{ Pass 3{ ] — Pass 3] Pass 3[ { 8 6 4 Pass 4{ Pass 4NT } — Pass 5[ Pass 6] All Pass West had to concede a ruff and discard, and it might 6 appear that whatever he does comes to pretty much the There might be something to be said for leading a trump same thing. He chose to exit with a heart, but that re- but the spade lead from dummy was ruffed with the seven moved East’s last card in the suit. and over-ruffed with the ten, and a heart back went to the queen of trumps as East impotently under-ruffed. Nick ruffed this trick, pitching a diamond from dummy, and got out with his last trump to East, the sec- Now came another spade and declarer misguessed to ruff with the jack (purists might see some element of ond endplay, as East had to return a diamond. restricted choice in South’s decision to overruff with On this next deal the fate of virtually all the the nine: A96 or A106 is perhaps more likely than Matchpoints hinged on an undertrick. When you dou- A109?). Anyway, when declarer ruffed high, Kranyak ble the opponents at unfavourable vulnerability, you will could overruff with the ace and lead yet another heart often need to collect 800 if the field can make game and that promoted Dana Tal’s {9 for the fourth undertrick with your cards. And so it proved here. and all of the Matchpoints, whereas +500 would only have been worth 7/50. Dealer West [ K 7 5 4 3 One of the curiosities I noticed was the number of N/S Game ] A 10 6 children of famous parents at the camp. This is especially { Q 9 true of the French juniors. For example in the team event } J 4 3 the following deal appeared, demonstrating that the Bessis [ A 10 8 6 2 [ 9 brothers have been well taught by their parents : ] Q J 5 ] 7 2 { K 3 { J 8 7 5 4 2 } Q 10 7 } 9 8 6 5 Dealer South [ Q 9 2 [ Q J Game all ] A J 9 4 3 ] K 9 8 4 3 { A 10 9 { A 10 6 } 10 9 } A K 2 [ K 7 3 [ J 10 8 6 ] 10 ] K Q 7 5 2 West North East South { Q 5 { 7 6 4 3 Toutenel Dana Tal DeLoubens Kranyak } K J 8 7 5 4 3 } — 1[ Pass Pass Dble [ A 5 4 Pass Pass 2{ Dble ] 8 6 All Pass { K J 8 2 Kranyak’s decision to go for the throat required his side } A Q 6 2 to collect 800 since 3NT was going to make nine tricks comfortably enough, although 4]can be beaten on the spade ruff. West North East South Ginossar Bessis The defence to 2{ doubled started with a spade 1{ lead and declarer won the ace and ruffed a spade low, 2} 2] Pass 2NT then led a heart up. Tal took her ace and tried a club to Pass 3NT All Pass the ace, for a low club to the jack and a third club. Now West found the effective lead of ]10, covered by the Kranyak cashed ]K and got out with a third heart as jack and queen. The spade shift went to West who con- declarer pitched his last club. Declarer had three tricks tinued the suit. won in hand and ran the in the bag and needed two more to escape for -500. eight of hearts, correctly ducked by East. Bessis now misguessed diamonds, playing a diamond to the ace and [ K 7 5 passing the ten of diamonds. When West won and cleared ] — the spades Bessis recovered by taking the queen in { Q 9 dummy, cashing ]A pitching a club, playing off his top } — diamonds, and then exiting from hand with a low club. [ 10 8 6 [ — West was endplayed to lead clubs for declarer’s ninth ] — ] — trick. { K 3 { J 8 7 5 4 The key to the success of the camp’s activities } — } — was that everyone played with partners from different [ — countries and almost everyone did their best to try new ] 9 8 Bridge experiences, and make new friends. From that { A 10 6 point of view and indeed every other aspect too, the } — camp was a roaring success. 7 IBPA Column Service These hands may be used without credit to either the author or IBPA. The author is Barry Rigal

173 174 It is bad enough to stay low and miss a cold game, but This deal from the Junior Camp at Prague has some- when your opponents beat you in the safe partscore you thing of the air of a book hand about it. Declarer’s line have reached, as happened in the 1999 Cavendish Teams, turned out to be especially expensive since in the other it adds insult to injury. room only game was contracted for.

Dlr: West [ Q 9 4 Dlr: South [ A 10 6 4 2 Vul: E/W ] Q 8 Vul: None ] A 10 6 5 { Q J 10 7 6 { A 7 4 3 } K 4 2 } — [ K J 3 [ 10 8 7 2 [ 9 [ J 8 ] 7 3 ] 9 5 4 2 ] Q 9 8 ] K 7 4 3 { K 5 { A 8 3 2 { 8 2 { K 10 9 6 } A J 8 7 6 3 } 5 } A J 10 6 5 3 2 } Q 9 7 [ A 6 5 [ K Q 7 5 3 ] A K J 10 6 ] J 2 { 9 4 { Q J 5 } Q 10 9 } K 8 4

West North East South West North East South Weichsel Chemla Sontag Mari 1[ 2} Pass Pass 2] Pass 6[ All Pass All Pass

A short and sweet auction to a sensible spot, and on a After ’s natural, but limited opening of trump lead the right move is not to play a card until you 2}, Chemla did not have enough to in dia- have counted your tricks. Declarer actually drew trumps monds, and when Mari reopened with 2] rather then tackled diamonds by leading the queen from hand than a double, Chemla decided not to explore for 3NT, and finished up with 11 tricks when the suit failed to but to take the safe positive... not so fast! behave. Weichsel led the }A, an incisive shot, then care- Simple arithmetic suggests there are eight trump fully played the }7 for to ruff. Alan now tricks and two aces, so you must realize that you need to found the fine move of underleading the {A (Peter’s collect two more diamond tricks to make the hand. If middle club clearly indicated that he had no preference the suit is going to split 3-3, anything you care to do between the pointed suits, hence he was likely to have works fine. But if East has the length in diamonds to- the king of both suits) and Weichsel won his king, then gether with the king, you can ensure the contract by gave Sontag a ruff with a high club. At this point, Alan drawing trumps ending in dummy, then leading a dia- led the [2 to ensure one down, by setting up the mond towards the queen-jack in hand. If your queen holds, ruff a club to dummy and repeat the manoeuvre defence’s spade trick before declarer could establish the in diamonds. Whenever East chooses to take his king, diamond suit for discards. it will fall on empty air, and you make your extra dia- mond tricks, and the contract. As the cards lie, the rec- ommended play produces the twelfth trick, whereas sim- Transnational Teams, Bali ply leading out high diamonds from hand will fail, what- ever the lie of the diamonds, if the suit does not split. If anyone going to Bali is interested in forming an IBPA Team (or Teams) for the World Transnational Teams Championship, please contact the Editor

8 175 176 There is scarcely a more attractive lead than a singleton When you are in a good contract, you should try to work in partner’s suit, but sometimes you have to listen to the out what might go wrong. Conversely, in a terrible con- auction and trust your opponents to know what they are tract you have to play for the one distribution that will doing, as happened on this deal from the 1999 Cavendish help you make the hand. That principle applies here. pairs. Dlr: East [ K J 9 3 Vul: Both] A 3 Dlr: East [ Q { A 9 7 Vul: E-W ] J 7 4 2 } K 10 4 3 { K 4 2 [ Q 10 [ 6 5 } A K Q 5 3 ] 10 9 8 7 ] K Q J 4 2 [ J 6 4 3 [ 10 { J 10 5 { K Q 4 ] K 8 3 ] A 9 6 } A 7 5 2 } J 8 6 { 6 { Q J 10 9 8 5 [ A 8 7 4 2 } J 10 8 4 2 } 9 7 6 ] 6 5 [ A K 9 8 7 5 2 { 8 6 3 2 ] Q 10 5 } Q 9 { A 7 3 West North East South } — 1] Pass 2] Dble Pass 3[ West North East South Pass 4[ All Pass K.Sanborn Smith S.Sanborn Cohen Both Souths jumped to 3[ and the Norths’ decision to 3{ 4[ bid on with limited extra values and shape are on the Pass 5} Pass 5{ aggressive side. Assuming South does not take the ex- Pass 5[ All Pass travagant misguess in spades by running the jack on the second round, he would be likely to emerge with nine tricks if playing 3[. could have been forgiven for leading a diamond, her partner’s suit, but she had been focusing But if he has to declare 4[, he can make that on the auction, and more importantly she knew her spade too; the point of the hand is that one discard on the club trick was very unlikely to run away. She unerringly led suit is not enough. For South to make his game, he must a heart, and the defence cashed their two heart tricks get two diamond discards from his hand. There is only and had an inevitable trump winner still to come, for one lie of the cards that will help declarer out; he needs one down. East to have the jack of clubs in a two or three-card suit. This deal turned out to be very expensive for The route to success on a heart lead is to win the ]A Smith and Cohen — who at that point were contending and to play a club to the }10, hoping for the miraculous for the lead in the Cavendish Pairs. Of course if Kerry lie of the cards that is actually there. This line of play Sanborn had led her partner’s suit, it would have been sets up two discards for the diamond losers in hand, and very easy to make Five Spades. produces a distinctly lucky +620.

The 2001 IBPA Handbook and your Personal Details In Tenerife the IBPA Executive appointed Ron Tacchi as Layout Editor for the new IBPA Handbook. The Editor, Patrick Jourdain, originally finished the content in March 2000, but the Handbook made no further progress after that. Mr. Jourdain is therefore updating the text part of the Handbook whilst Mr. Tacchi is updating the Personal section containing Names, Addresses, and personal details. You will find these printed on a separate sheet accompanying this Bulletin.Please check them carefully. Send any amendments to Ron Tacchi by e-mail at: [email protected] or by fax to +33 2 37 81 16 22 Mr. Tacchi is also adding photos of members to the Handbook. Please send these to him electronically at the same address. Please also state if you do not wish any of your personal details to appear on an IBPA website (access will be limited to IBPA members only).

9 MINUTES OF THE GENERAL MEETING OF THE I.B.P.A. Tenerife, 25th June 2001 Members present: - In the Chair Jean-Paul Meyer + some 32 other members. Per Jannersten (Swe), Christer Andersson (Swe), Patrick Jourdain (Wales), Maureen Dennison (Eng), Steen Møller (Den), Nissan Rand (Isr), Sam Leckie (Scot), Seamus Downing (Ire), Britt Jannersten (Swe), Yuri Kovalenko (Ger), Colette Grosfils (Bel), Bronius Zibaitis (Lit), Koen Gijsman (Net), Mario Dix (Mal), David Muller (Eng), Esad Kulovic (Cro), Ron Tacchi (Mal), Panos Gerontopoulos (Gre), Irena Chodorowska (Pol), Fredrik Wahlberg (Swe), Eric Kokish (Can), Pinhas Romik (USA), Kay Downes (Ire), Maureen Hiron (Spa), Sven-Olov Flodqvist (Swe), Michael Rosenblum (Rus), Heinz Guthwert (Swe), Jon Sveindal (Nor), Russ Nicholson (Eng), Mark Horton (Eng), Tony Gordon (Eng), and Herman De Wael (Bel). Apologies for absence were received from Tony Sowter and Albert L Benjamin

1 Remembrance for deceased members: - The IBPA Romik of e-bridge explained that they had signed a Editor was not aware of any deceased members since sponsorship agreement with the EBL that they would the meeting in Maastricht. not use any other organisation to promote the tourna- ment in Tenerife. In the USA the agreement was to run 2. Dennison reported that e-bridge had requested, both for the trials but that all information would be free via the this draw and future clippings competitions, that two of the five $100 prizes should be awarded on quality of clip- ACBL’s own website with the exception of , as commentary in Tenerife. ping and three by random draw. They nominated and Tony Gordon as the first two recipients and asked Jourdain pointed out that the I.B.P.A. had a copyright that Dennison, as secretary, would be responsible for fur- policy, set out in the Members Handbook and it states ther selections. The other winners were Mark Horton, Elena that there can be no copyright on facts, but it may be a Jeronimidis and Alan Truscott. There is another e-bridge question of convenience of ascertaining those facts. For clipping competition between now and the Annual Gen- instance, he would expect a Championship Daily Bulle- eral Meeting in Bali. Journalists may enter any clipping tin to be free from which you could extract your own making mention of e-bridge, whether about the European information. However, he would expect to pay for a Championships or any other matter. Send a hard copy by Championship book though IBPA would still encour- mail or fax to Dennison to go into a scrapbook. Also Eric age a publisher of such a book to provide favourable Kokish would be pleased to receive an electronic copy of rates to Journalists. any material. Gerontopoulos was asked to state the view of the WBF and EBL. He stated that it had always been the policy of 3. Meyer drew attention to the offer from e-bridge for the ruling bodies to spread information freely to help three-months free membership, renewable to demonstra- the development of bridge. For example, the Daily Bul- bly active users and asked for comments from the floor. letins, pressrooms and support for the I.B.P.A. He Flodqvist expressed concern that, though he was pleased pointed out that to this end they had been on line from to receive the benefits described, it looked as if things, 1996 providing information, the Bulletins and results which in the past had always been freely available, would free of charge. So far we have not been able provide now come either at a price or with conditions attached. comment but others are willing to do so: - Bridge Plaza For instance, he had had difficulty getting information and now E-Bridge. Gerontopoulos saw the duty of the of the USA trials. The ACBL said that e-bridge had the EBL to provide information as soon as possible, not to rights and general information was not available with- become publishers. He pointed out the simile that the out joining a service. public have to buy papers and magazines to read Jour- Kokish informed the meeting that there was an ACBL nalists’ material. He made the point that the EBL need website for results and made the points that there had money to do their job and that there are many been coverage on Vugraph, it cost money to gather in- organisations that make money by selling rights – e.g. formation and provide such a comprehensive service and football. He confirmed however that for the foreseeable they needed income to justify the expense. future the EBL and WBF will supply factual informa- Gijsman said that his service, bridgeplaza, had always tion free. been free both to Journalists and the general public and would continue to be so. He added that he had much Jourdain referred to two further points raised: - archive material freely available and that this covered 1) that information should be conveniently and com- all sorts of tournaments such as the Forbo and Cap pletely available, not only to Journalists but also to the Gemini, as well as World Championships. general public. On this he was not aware that IBPA had Meyer informed the meeting that the executive had a written policy. discussed the matter and concluded that all facts, in- 2) the worry that journalists who were critical or even cluding results, hand records, bidding and play, were not-complimentary, might lose some of the services oth- free of copyright. This did not apply to comment or com- erwise provided free to journalists. In the past IBPA had mentary. Gijsman felt the I.B.P.A. should take a strong always defended the right of journalists to comment position that access to Vugraph should also be free. freely without fear of any reprisal from the authorities. 10 Dennison mentioned events such as the Cavendish ing fee was raised as a drawback to recruitment. Jourdain where results had not been available, but Meyer pointed pointed out that this was intended for members who lapse out that it was organised by a private firm and if they but still get their Bulletin for three months into the new decided to restrict information that was their right. year. Tacchi proposed that this fee should be dropped and the Board promised to consider this matter. Dennison 4. Meyer reported that the membership of the I.B.P.A. was diminishing and the Board was planning to take proposed that it should remain as a rejoining fee only. strong action with the help of Anna Gudge to recruit Following the meeting IBPA members were invited on the new members and that we would send an e-mail shot to day trip for the Press to the volcano in Tenerife, accompa- some 4000 names on her data base of Journalists, media nied by lunch. At the lunch thanks were expressed to the and others with a bridge website. The question of a join- organisers by Per Jannersten, IBPA Vice-President. THE USA TRIALS THE ZONE 4 CHAMPIONSHIPS Rose Meltzer becomes the first woman to represent Anna Gudge reports the USA in the Bermuda Bowl since Dorothy Truscott in 1965. Meltzer’s team (Kyle Larsen, Chip Martel, Lew India and Pakistan qualified for the Bermuda Bowl from Stansby, Alan Sontag, Peter Weichsel) won the USA 2 the Zone 4 Championships, hosted by the Bahrain Bridge berth, joining USA 1 Nick Nickell (Richard Freeman, Committee at the end of May. The teams were: Bob Hamman, Paul Soloway, Jeff Meckstroth, Eric Rodwell) in Bali. India: Santanu Ghose; Mrs. Kiran Nadar; Rajesh Dalal; In the semi-final of the Trials Nickell beat Meltzer 242- Subhash Gupta; Bachiraju Satyanarayana; K R 194 whilst Russ Ekeblad (Robert Lipsitz, Ron Rubin, Venkataraman , Mark Molson, Barnet Shenkin) beat Pakistan: Tahir Abbas, Masood Salim, Shahin Iqbal, Steve Robinson (Peter Boyd, Fred Stewart, Kit Javaid Khali, Mohsin Musht, Mirza Shauq Woolsey) 269-260. Nickell won the final, and then Meltzer emerged victorious from the repechage for the India qualified for the Venice Cup; the team was: second spot. l Sicka, Feroza Chothia, Geeta Lakhani, Ameeta The US Womens Trials was won by the team led by Raythatha, Yvette Singapurin, Marianne Karmarkar John Mohan (Lynn Baker-Irinia Levitina, Jill Meyers- WBF Simultaneous Pairs, 1st & 2nd June Randi Monton, Kerri Sanborn-Karen McCallum) who World Junior Champion Stelio di Bello of Italy, became USA1 in the Venice Cup. USA 2 is the team led partnering Luigi Ventriglia topped the scores on the by Bob Hamman (Petra Hamman-Joan Jackson, Shawn Saturday with Jon Hawes & Stephen Fleming of Eng- Quinn-Mildred Breed, Robin Klar-) land recording the highest score on the Friday.

Calendar Event Venue IBPA Contact AUG 6/15 World Junior Teams, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil panos g 10/19 England Summer Nationals, Brighton EBU 44+ 1296 394 414 OCT 20/02 Nov Bermuda Bowl, Venice Cup, Transnational Teams, Bali WBF NOV 9/11 2nd EOC CA-IB Trophy, Warsaw Kielbasinski 18/28 ACBL Fall Nationals, Las Vegas ACBL 26/29 EBL Simultaneous Pairs [email protected] — — 2002 — — JAN 17/20 Cap Gemini Invitation, Hotel des Indes, The Hague [email protected] MAR 7-17 ACBL Spring Nationals, Houston ACBL 16/22 EBL Mixed Pairs and Teams, Ostend EBL JUN 7/8 World Wide Bridge Contest [email protected] 16/30 European National Teams, Salsomaggiore EBL JUL ?? European Youth Team Championships [email protected] 15/20 ? Commonwealth Games Bridge, Manchester? EBU 18/28 ACBL Summer Nationals, Washington ACBL AUG 2/11 World University Teams, Bruges, Bruges Belgium [email protected] 9/18 England Summer Nationals, Brighton EBU 44+ 1296 394 414 12/19 European University Teams, Rotterdam, Neth Paul Magerman 16/31 World Bridge Championships, Montreal WBF NOV 28/ 8 Dec ACBL Fall Nationals, Phoenix ACBL — — 2003 — — MAR 6/16 ACBL Spring Nationals, Philadelphia ACBL JUL 17/27 ACBL: Summer Nationals, Long Beach, CA ACBL AUG 8/17 England Summer Nationals, Brighton EBU 44+ 1296 394 414 11 Teenage Zonal Champion will be youngest ever Bermuda Bowl contestant By Henry Francis (USA) A 14-year-old now reigns as the youngest Zonal cham- “Never before had I met a player of Agustin’s pion in the history of world bridge. Agustin Madala of skill at his age,” said Pablo Lambardi, captain of Argentina was a member of the Argentine team that last year’s IWBC team. After last year’s IWBC won the South American championship in event, Lambardi said, “Agustin’s biggest problem Cochabamba, Bolivia, recently. Argentina defeated was that his mother wouldn’t let him play late on Brazil by 48 IMPs in the 64-board final. Madala will weekdays. He had to wait until she went to sleep represent Argentina in the Bermuda Bowl world cham- before he could sneak in to play OKbridge.” Now pionships in Bali, Indonesia, in October. This will be Agustin has proved he can handle late-night bridge another record – he’ll be the youngest player ever to and still keep up with all his other activities. compete in the Bermuda Bowl. Here’s an example of Agustin in action in the Madala was outstanding in the World Junior South American Championships Championships in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 1999. He reached the quarterfinals of last year’s OKbridge [ A Q J Internet World Bridge Championship and finished ] 10 9 3 second in the South American Open Pairs champi- { A J 5 3 2 onship at the age of 12 (IBPA Editor: partnering } A Q IBPA member Carlos Cabanne, aged 82) [ — [ K 8 7 3 2 Madala is in his second year of middle school, ] K Q J 8 ] 6 3 with three more years to go before going to univer- { Q 9 8 6 { K 10 7 sity. He is an excellent student. According to his } 9 8 6 5 3 } K 10 4 father, Adolfo Madala, Agustin has a wonderful re- [ 10 9 6 5 4 lationship with his fellow students and the school ] A 7 5 2 authorities. Agustin is especially strong in math- { 4 ematics and language. “He always has an A qualifi- } J 7 2 cation,” says his father. “Once my wife asked Agustin’s math teacher: why Agustin never had any math homework. The teacher said, ‘Because by the West North East South time I finish writing the homework on the black- 1{ Pass 1[ board, Agustin has finished it’.” Pass 2NT Pass 3] Pass 3[ Pass 4[ Bridge is not Agustin’s only interest – far from All Pass it. He plays on his school soccer team where he is a very good forward. He also likes music — he’s Agustin let the ]K hold but won the second heart. learning to play the electronic organ and the flute. He led a club to the queen, losing to the king. A His father noted that Agustin “enjoys almost all trump came back, won in dummy. Agustin cashed sports, but soccer is his first love. He plays every {A and ruffed a diamond, crossed to }A and ruffed day with his schoolmates and friends. Give him a another diamond. He cashed }J, pitching dummy’s soccer ball and it will never touch the floor — he last heart. Next he ruffed a heart with dummy’s ace, can make more than a hundred contacts using his East having to under-ruff. Agustin called for another feet, heels, knees, shoulders and head. Well, soccer diamond, and East was done. He played [7, but is our national sport, you know.” Agustin overruffed with the 9. He led his last heart and ruffed with dummy’s queen. East was able to Agustin plays bridge two or three times a over-ruff with the king, but that made Agustin’s week, mostly on OKbridge. When he plays in in- trump 10 good for the game-going trick. He lost ternational events, he sometimes loses a week or only one heart, one club and one trump despite the two of classes, but he recovers the study rhythm 5-0 trump break. with no difficulty. His teachers think that bridge playing has increased his comprehension ability, es- pecially in logic problems. 12 Larsen’s Larceny By Alan Truscott (USA) Truscott submits this deal from the Toronto ACBL West remained silent after her reopening double, Nationals, reported in the NY Times, 22nd July, fea- and she leaped to three no-trump after a one-heart turing Kyle Larsen, West, for our Defence of the response. Year Award: In this case Larsen, West, produced a brilliant Dealer: West [ 8 2 defense. After leading one top diamond, he read the Game All ] Q J 8 5 3 2 position correctly. To justify the three no-trump bid, { 5 3 South had to have long, solid spades together with } J 10 9 the missing honors in the minor suits. [ 10 3 [ 6 5 West continued by cashing the two top heart hon- ] A K 9 ] 7 6 4 ors, squeezing South in a most unusual way. If South { A K J 10 4 { 9 7 6 had thrown a minor-suit card, West would have been } K 6 2 } 8 7 5 4 3 able to lead the discarded suit effectively. Meyers [ A K Q J 9 7 4 parted with one of her spade winners, and the con- ] 10 tract was still in the balance. { Q 8 2 } A Q A spade shift would have been fatal, for the spade eight would have been an entry to the hearts. West North East South But Larsen reverted to diamonds, giving South a 1{ Pass Pass Dble trick in that suit but defeating the game. Meyers 1NT 2] Pass 3NT had to lose a club trick at the finish for down one. Pass Pass Pass Meltzer and her team-mates gained 12 imps in what proved to be a losing cause. West led the diamond king. Truscott adds: I did not have space in the NYT A remarkable turnabout in the final set of deals gave to note another point. The heart cash is necessary if the Grand National Team title here last night Satur- South has six spades and two hearts to prevent West day to a foursome from Southern California. Play- being stripped and endplayed. ing at the American Contract Bridge League’s Sum- mer Nationals, victory went to Jill Meyers, who was New e-bridge the world’s top-ranked woman player two years ago, Clippings Competition Ed Davis, Mitch Dunitz and Iftikhar Baqai. They trailed by 25 IMPs into the last quarter, but several All IBPA members are invited to send clippings slam swings helped them surge to an 8-IMP win. mentioning e-bridge to IBPA’s Clippings Secre- tary, Maureen Dennison (Address on front of Bul- The losers, who between them have won letin). bunches of world and national titles, were a team Electronic versions can be sent to Eric Kokish at: from Northern California: Rose Meltzer, Peter Weichsel, Chip Martel, Lew Stansby, Hugh Ross [email protected] and Kyle Larsen. For each clipping please give for the publication, Both captains bid the South cards imagina- its name, the date of publication, the approximate tively on the diagramed deal from the Grand Na- circulation, and the name of the IBPA member who was author. tional, reaching three no-trump with the long spade suit undisclosed. This contract had a good chance, The Closing date for the Competition is the end of while four spades and four hearts would have been September. Two prizes will be awarded on merit hopeless. and there will be a further six prizes of $50 drawn by lot. Each clipping sent in will earn the author Meltzer was the declarer after the diagramed one ticket in the draw, but no person may win two auction, and succeeded. She claimed nine tricks prizes. when West led diamonds and continued the suit. In The Draw will be held in Bali. the replay, Meyers had slightly different bidding. 13 * The reports an honour for trumps were drawn, but when the heart king did not fall, its former chairman, Laurens Hoedemaker, who has also declarer was one down. retired from the Exutive of the EBL. th * Carlos Cabanne of Argentina sends a deal in memory On 10 June, the Dutch Minister of Justice, Mr. Benk of his longtime bridge partner, Alberto Berisso, who died Korthals, on behalf of Beatrix, Queen of the Nether- three months ago, aged 77. Berisso won the South Ameri- lands, awarded Hoedemaker the order ‘Ridder (Knight) can Championships four times and competed in the Ber- in de Orde van Oranje Nassau’. muda Bowls of 1959, ’62, and ’65, and the 1972 Olym- This title was issued due to the extraordinary achieve- piad. ments of Hoedemaker during his seven years term for Cabanne has the painful memory of losing by 7 the Dutch Bridge Federation. During his chairmanship IMPs in the 1962 BB (after being 60 IMPs ahead!) to the DBF increased its memberships by 20% to over the British team of Alan Truscott, Tony Priday, Kenneth 110,000 members. Several World Championship titles Konstam, Albert Rose, Claude Rodrigue, and Nico Gar- were obtained and due to his unending efforts the Bridge dener. The deal below, on Bridgerama, is from the South Olympiad 2000 was assigned to Maastricht. American Teams of that year in Buenos Aires from Ar- Armand Trippaers, current treasurer, is elected as the gentina v. Chile, helping Argentina to qualify for the new chairman of the Dutch Bridge Federation. Bowl:

* Maureen Hiron sends a deal from the event held in memory of her husband the late Alan Hiron held at the Dealer: South [ 9 6 2 Marbella Bridge Club run by former Irish International Love all ] A K J 7 Des Deery where Alan & Maureen regularly played. The { A 3 2 event was held over 20 sessions with best 8 scores count- } 7 6 3 ing towards a 1 million peseta cash prizes put up spon- [10 7 5 4 [ K Q J 3 sor Blevin Franks International, offshore financial con- ] Q 9 3 ] 10 4 2 sultants. { Q 7 5 { K 6 4 } Q 4 2 } J 10 5 Only Paul Fenn, winner of the Expert section, [ A 8 found the winning defence here: ] 8 6 5 { J 10 9 8 Dealer: West [ 8 3 } A K 9 8 E/W Game ] Q 9 7 5 4 West North East South { 7 6 2 1NT } A J 2 Pass 3NT All Pass [A 9 4 [ 5 West, Berisso, led a low spade to the jack, which held. ] 3 2 ] K 10 8 Cabanne continued with the king. South won, and ran { J 10 { A K 9 8 5 4 3 the { J, losing to the king. East cashed [Q but then, as } Q 10 8 7 5 4 } K 6 if he did not hold another spade, switched to a low club. [ K Q J 10 7 6 2 South won, repeated the diamond finesse, crossed to {A ] A J 6 picking up the suit, laid down one top heart, returned to { Q hand with the second top club and cashed the fourth } 9 3 diamond. After two Passes, East opened 1{ and South overcalled On this Berisso, West, discarded ]9!, and Four Spades. West, Fenn, led {J. East won with the king and continued with the ace, ruffed by South. Cabanne a club! In the three-card ending South was fooled into thinking East was hanging onto ]Qx and Declarer now continued with [K taken by West’s the master club. Going for the endplay, South trium- ace. Fenn now found the only switch to beat the hand: phantly exited with }9. But Berisso claimed }Q and }10 (IBPA Editor: Doesn’t }Q also work?!) the good spade for one down, instead of ten tricks. If West fails to switch to a club declarer can draw Berisso was a Doctor of Economics and worked trumps and set up the hearts for a club discard. If West at a high level in finance. He was a real gentleman, a switches to a low club declarer ducks in dummy and fine player, and a very good friend. East’s king wins. A later club finesse gives a heart dis- card and a low heart to the jack picks up the remainder. * Jens Otto ”Charles” Pedersen sends this deal featur- ing Peter Schaltz of Denmark: On the actual switch of }10 declarer had to take the ace, and then the heart finesse. This worked, and The Danish Open Team in Tenerife failed by only 2½ 14 VP to qualify for the Bermuda Bowl. In the very first A club now would not work, as East could safely escape match against Iceland Peter Schaltz played his match with a low heart, but Peter played ]9 taken by ]K, and nr. 400 for Denmark. (IBPA Editor: The Danes count then led }K! This kind of Stepping Stone forced East every match in which a player plays in a round robin of to lead away from ]10. 12 tricks. IBPA Editor: And a the Europeans and Bermuda Bowl) Peter Schaltz ended bit of one-up-man-ship for Dad! Pedersen (nickname up with 423 caps, and only Stig Werdelin (439) and Steen “Charles”) is Editor of the Danish Moeller (429) have more. “Moutonisten” (sponsored by wine-makers Mouton Schaltz is known for his fine declarer play, and Cadet). He also edits a daily magazine sent by e-mail to a few hundred Danes, with latest news and hands, called this example is from a test just before Tenerife. Sitting North is Peter’s wife, Dorthe. West is Peter’s 17-year- CMN (Charles M@il News), old son Martin, IBPA’s youngest member: Pedersen also edits a monthly column “Charles Spiller op” in the danish bridgemagasine “Dansk Bridge” (Edi- Dealer: South [ A K 3 tor Ib Lundby), and edits weekly columns in the local N/S Game ] K Q J 8 6 newspaper. { 2 } K 8 5 3 * Dan Dimitrescu has a new address: [10 4 2 [ 9 6 ] 7 ] 10 5 4 3 2 Halsjögatan 41, 217 66 Malmö, Sweden { K Q 10 9 4 3 { J 7 6 } Q 9 2 } A J 6 * B ranko Spiljak’s July Bulletin, addressed to [ Q J 8 7 5 Hanamanova 10, 41000 Zagreb, Croatia, has been re- ] A 9 turned “address unknown”. Can anyone help by e-mail- { A 8 5 ing us his actual address? } 10 7 4 * Olivier Beauvillan’s July Bulletin was also returned - West North East South please email us if you have his actual address Martin Dorthe Rico Peter Schaltz Schaltz Hemberg Schaltz * Larry Cohen reports that a new CD-ROM with 81 - - - 1[ deals from the Cavendish 2000 is now available. For a 4{ 4NT 5{ Dble review copy contact Larry at: Pass 5] Pass 6[ [email protected] Pass Pass Pass giving your credentials. All 81 deals are presented by Kit Woolsey in “Over-my-shoulder” style using Fred 4NT asked for Aces and Double showed an even num- Gitelman’s software. ber. 5] asked for [Q. On a club lead, there would have been no story, but Martin led ]7, which looked like a singleton. Peter called for ]8, but East ducked, and be- cause of bad communications Peter had to win ]A. He cashed {A and ruffed a diamond with [A! He ran all the trumps squeezing East on the last one. The 5 card position: IBPA WEBSITE NOTICE

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* Ron Klinger says: Jessel Rothfield won the Austra- Ian McKinnon, South in 3NT, received a low lian Autumn National Open Teams at age 83 when play- diamond lead and when dummy’s ten held, declarer ing throughout. Is this a world record for a national teams had eight tricks. The club jack ran to West, who event? exited with a heart. South cashed heart ace, heart IBPA Editor: No. won the , the king and heart queen, but they did not break. Next British teams championship, aged 89. He did not play came the club ten, low, low, king and West tried the throughout, but more than enough to qualify under the spade jack. regulations. Declarer allowed this to hold and won the next This was Klinger’s newspaper report: spade with the king. He continued with a spade to In few sports or games can one win a national title late the ace but they did not break either. Now McKinnon in life but that is just what Jessel Rothfield at age 83 did led the club five to his ace and threw West in with last weekend. Playing with his wife Carole and Seamus the fourth club. West had to give declarer his ninth Browne – George Smolanko, Rothfield won the 2001 trick with a diamond into the ace-queen. Well Autumn National Open Teams comfortably. You are played. never too old at bridge. Their team led throughout and in the final they John Brockwell, West, recounted this fine defeated Barbara Travis – Elizabeth Havas, Kieran Dyke effort by George Smolanko, also South in 3NT. – Ron Klinger by 140-99. Brockwell led the heart eight, low, ten, king, and For 48 teams, there were eight qualifying Smolanko returned the heart nine, a far-sighted card, rounds, two 16-board matches and six 20-board matches. to dummy’s queen. Next came the club jack, won Three matches, or 52 boards out of 152, was enough to by the queen, and West exited with the spade jack, satisfy the ABF rule for a player to be eligible, which taken by the king. once required 50% participation. South now led a low club towards dummy The only team significantly affected was Barry and West won with the king to play his second spade. Noble – Terry Brown, George Bilski – Phil Gue, Peter Declarer took this with dummy’s ace, cashed the Fordham – Michael Prescott, who finished third and will club ten, East pitching a diamond, and finessed the shortly represent Australia overseas. Following the suc- diamond queen, losing to the king. West returned cessful strategy in New Zealand, Noble played the mini- mum number of boards again and won all three matches his last club to declarer’s ace, dummy and East dis- th th th (against teams finishing 34 , 48 and 15 ). carding diamonds. Contrast the Noble effort with the Rothfields, Smolanko now led the diamond ace, dis- who played every board of the event and did not lose carding a spade from dummy and East was one match, a sterling performance. En route to victory, squeezed. Forced to retain two hearts, he threw a the Rothfield team crushed the Noble team, fielding spade, coming down to spade queen and jack-three Bilski-Gue, Fordham-Prescott, by 24-6. in hearts. Dummy had a spade and ace-six in hearts. Deal #1 from Round 5 produced some sparkling play. When Smolanko played a spade, East won and had to concede the last two tricks to dummy. Declarer Dealer: South [ A 10 6 5 technique does not come much better than that. N/S Game ] A Q 6 4 { 10 8 * Nikola Tcholakov reports that his term in Wash- } J 10 5 ington DC as Minister Plenipotentiary for Bulgaria [ J 2 [ Q 9 8 7 is completed and he is returning home this month. ] 8 7 ] J 10 3 2 { K J 7 6 4 { 9 5 3 15 Ivatz voyvoda Str., 1124 Sofia, Bulgaria: } K Q 9 7 } 6 4 [ K 4 3 [email protected] or [email protected]. ] K 9 5 Since May I have a second bridge column in “De- { A Q 2 } A 8 3 2 mocracy” newspaper - weekly. 16