Fortnight Nears the End

World Bridge Series
Championship

Philadelphia

Pennsylvania, USA
1^stto 16^thOctober
2010

Daily Bulletin

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Co-ordinator: Jean-Paul Meyer • Chief Editor: Brent Manley • Editors: Mark Horton, Brian Senior,

Phillip Alder, Barry Rigal, Jan Van Cleef • Lay Out Editor: Akis Kanaris • Photographer: Ron Tacchi

Friday, 15 October 2010
Issue No. 14

FORTNIGHT NEARS THE END

These are the hard-working staff members who produce all the deals — literally thousands — for the championships

Players at theWorld Bridge Series Championships have been at it for nearly two weeks with only one full day left. Those who have played every day deserve credit for their stamina. Consider the players who started on opening day of the Generali Open Pairs on Saturday nearly a week ago. If they made it to the final, which started yesterday, they will end up playing 15 sessions. With three sessions to go, the Open leaders, drop-ins from the Rosenblum, are Fulvio Fantoni and Claudio Nunes. In the Women’s Pairs, another pair of drop-ins, Carla Arnolds and BepVriend are in front. The IMP Pairs leaders are Joao-Paulo Campos and MiguelVillas-Boas.ACBL President Rich DeMartino and Patrick McDevitt are in the lead in the Hiron Trophy Senior Pairs. The Chagas team held a narrow lead in the World Mixed Swiss Teams.
In theWorld Junior Championship,Israel and France will start play today for the Ortiz-PatinoTrophy,and in theWorldYoungsters Championship, it will be England versus Poland for the Damiani Cup.

Contents

World Bridge Series Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-5 For Those Who Like Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Sting in the Tail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 Interview with José Damiani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 2010 IBPA Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 WorldYouth Team Championships pages . . . . . . . . . .24-32

13th WORLD BRIDGE SERIES

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.

DISTRICT 3

Vugraph Schedule

Two sessions of the World Junior Championship for the Ortiz-Patino Trophy will be shown in theVugraphTheater today at 10.00 and 13.10 — Israel versus France.There will be no more vugraph today or tomorrow.

AUTUMN LEAF
REGIONAL

October 25 - 31, 2010

Fall Foliage and Bridge go together!

Danbury Hotel & Conference Center Danbury CT 203-794-0600 Bridge Rate: $94

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

(Reservation Deadline: October 11) New: Golden Opportunity Pairs 0-750 MPs, Friday, Oct. 29 Bracketed KOs, Bracketed Round Robin Teams; Swiss Teams Senior Pairs; Stratified Open Pairs, Newplicate one-session games For complete information:

( T o day)

Mixed Swiss Teams

Qualifying sessions 6, 7 at 10.30, 12.20

Final / Plate sessions 1-3 at

14.50, 16.40, 18.30

Ortiz-Patiño Trophy / Damiani Cup

Final / Play Off sessions at

10.00, 13.10, 15.50

www.bridge-district3.org

GENERALI World Open / Women’s Pairs

Final sessions 3, 4 at 11.00, 16.00

Hiron Trophy Senior Pairs

IMP Pairs

Youth Individual Contest

Final sessions 1, 2 at 11.30, 16.00 Plate sessions 1, 2 at 11.30, 16.30

Badges Needed for Prize Giving

The Prize Giving and Closing Ceremony is on Saturday October 16th at 5 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom on the 5th floor of the Marriott Hotel for players who have registered to attend. Please note that you will need to show your badge to gain entry.

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Mixed Swiss Teams

Final / Plate sessions 4, 5 at 10.30, 12.20

Ortiz-Patiño Trophy / Damiani Cup

Final / Play Off session at 10.00

GENERALI World Open / Women’s Pairs

Final session 5 at 10.00

Hiron Trophy Senior Pairs

Final sessions 5 at 10.00

IMP Pairs

Final sessions 5 at 10.00

VUGRAPH MATCHES

Matches (10.00, 13.10)

BBO.1-VG: Table 1 Israel - France

(Juniors)

2

1 - 16 October 2010

WORLD MIXED SWISSTEAMS

Ranking after 5 Qualifying sessions

1 Chagas 2 Gordon
Payen
4 Amigos 5 Green
Hinze
7 Hennings 8 Hansa Narasimhan 9 India Alizee
10 Ida
100
98 98 96 94 94 93 92 91 90 90 89 88 86 86 86 85 85 85 82 81 80 80 80 80 79 79 78 77 77 77 77 77 76 76
Kamras Pin An
38 Funbridge Girls FRA 39 Berg
Istanbul
41 Rasmussen 42 Harding
Horn Lake 6
44 Beijing Trinergy 45 Djarum
Ferlema Hargreaves
48 Ekeblad
Gabrial UI
50 Cassini 51 Levine 52 Hawkes 53 France Girls
Rayner Team 913
56 Hertz
Reedinger
58 Drunken Kangaroos
Feldman
76 76 75 74 74 73 72 72 71 70 70 70 68 68 67 66 65 64 64 64 63 63 62 62 61 60 59 58 57 54 53 53 51 51 38
Wheeler
12 De Botton 13 Steelers 14 Auken
Frind Harris
17 Hansen
Nice Girls Schwartz
20 Cooper 21 Stienen 22 Cayne
Hauge O'Rourke Very Mixed
26 Isporski
Lay
28 Willenken 29 Callaghan
Cushing
60 Fulton 61 Meadow 62 Moscow 63 Allison 64 Giesler 65 Barrett 66 Kahlenberg
Solodar
Dulet Karsiyaka Meltzer
34 Glasson
Goldstein
68 Latins
Stober
70 Argemex

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GENERALI WORLD OPEN PAIRS

Final Results after 2 sessions (subject to confirmation)

Rank

Names

Result

58.21 56.89 55.66 55.22 55.00 54.76 54.69 54.54 54.35 54.05 54.02 53.99 53.55 53.37 52.81 52.77 52.44 52.42 52.23 51.99 51.99 51.94 51.89 51.78 51.62 51.58 51.53 51.51 51.37 51.23 51.21 51.21 51.09 50.75 50.49 50.40

37 Joanna STANSBY - Lew STANSBY

50.22

50.04 49.61 49.60 49.58 49.33 48.99 48.89 48.85 48.63 48.62 48.37 48.24 48.06 47.91 47.86 47.71 47.66
1 Fulvio FANTONI - Claudio NUNES 2 Bobby LEVIN - Steve WEINSTEIN 3 Steve GARNER - Howard WEINSTEIN 4 Eric GRECO - Geoff HAMPSON
38 Zia MAHMOOD - Eric RODWELL 39 Dominique PILON - Lionel SEBBANE 40 Fred STEWART - Kit WOOLSEY 41 Bill POLLACK - Jeff ROMAN
5 Gheorghe SERPOI - Calin STIRBU 6 Tim COPE - Glen HOLMAN
42 Cezary BALICKI - Jacek PSZCZOLA 43 Alexander DUBININ - Andrey GROMOV 44 Yury KHIUPPENEN -Vadim KHOLOMEEV 45 Marian KUPNICKI - Leszek MAJDANSKI 46 Ricco van PROOIJEN - LoukVERHEES JR 47 Ralph KATZ - Nick NICKELL
7 Martin FLEISHER - Mike KAMIL 8 Marc BOMPIS - Jean-Christophe QUANTIN 9 Vladimir MIHOV - Jerry STAMATOV
10 Jouri KHOKHLOV - Georgi MATUSHKO 11 Bjorn FALLENIUS - Peter FREDIN 12 Rui LI - Jiang TONG
48 Jan JANSMA - Gert Jan PAULISSEN 49 Hemant LALL - Justin LALL
13 Ashley BACH - Ishmael DELMONTE

14 Perry JOHNSON - Jeff MECKSTROTH 15 Dawei CHEN - Kazuo FURUTA
50 Janusz MAKARUK - Pawel NIEDZIELSKI 51 Siu-Kau Samuel WAN - Derek ZEN 52 Tom HANLON - Hugh MCGANN 53 Michael POLOWAN - Jacob MORGAN 54 Hailong AO - Jian-Jian WANG
16 LixinYANG - Ban Xiang ZHANG 17 John HURD - Joel WOOLDRIDGE 18 Franck MULTON - Pierre ZIMMERMANN 19 John DIAMOND - Brian PLATNICK 20 Eldad GINOSSAR - Ron PACHTMAN 20 Sherif NOSHY - AhmedYOUSRY 22 Borislav POPOV - Stefan SKORCHEV 23 Brian GLUBOK - Philip GORDON 24 Honey B PRABHAKAR - Rajeshwar TEWARI 25 Peter BOYD - Steve ROBINSON 26 Marius IONITA - Cornel TEODORESCU 27 Piotr GAWRYS - Piotr TUSZYNSKI 28 Krzysztof JASSEM - Krzysztof MARTENS 29 Taufik Gautama ASBI - Robert PARASIAN 30 Bob HAMMAN - Mike PASSELL
55 Dominik FILIPOWICZ - Michal NOWOSADZKI 47.47 56 Karl GOHL - Neil KIMELMAN 57 Stephen BURGESS - Michael COURTNEY 58 David BAKHSHI - Tom TOWNSEND 59 Jie ZHAO - Zhong FU
47.43 47.38 47.09 46.70 46.68 46.66 46.55 46.22 46.14 44.78 44.73 44.64 44.54 43.91 43.57 42.56 40.73
60 Sunit CHOKSHI - Subhash GUPTA 61 Kalin KARAIVANOV - Tony RUSEV 62 Pierre SAPORTA - Jean-MichelVOLDOIRE 63 Curtis CHEEK - Joe GRUE 64 Shane BLANCHARD - Brad MOSS 65 Tor HELNESS - Danny SPRUNG 66 Xinli GAN - Qiang ZHANG 67 Jason FELDMAN - John KRANYAK 68 Doug DOUB - Adam WILDAVSKY 69 Xu HOU - Miao SHI 70 Michael ROSENBERG - Warren SPECTOR 71 Piotr WALCZAK - Jan ZADROGA 72 Yuliy CHUMAK - Oleg ROVYSHYN
31 Jim FOSTER - Larry SEALY 32 Boye BROGELAND - Gavin WOLPERT 33 Bart BRAMLEY - Nikolay DEMIREV 34 William JACOBS - Ben THOMPSON 35 Josef PIEKAREK - Alexander SMIRNOV 36 Alexander ALLFREY - Andrew ROBSON

GENERALI WORLD WOMEN’s PAIRS

Rank

Names

Result

59.15 56.80 55.42 55.09 54.59 54.07 53.67 52.59 52.58 52.41 52.35 52.32 51.61 51.57 51.52 51.10 51.06 50.37
19 Aida SALDZIEVA - Betty SPEELMAN 20 Maddalena SEVERGNINI - Antonella SORESINI 21 Gen GEIGER - Gigi SIMPSON
49.76 49.76 49.29 49.02 48.37 48.26 47.73 47.05 46.55 46.49
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Carla ARNOLDS - BepVRIEND Lynn DEAS - Beth PALMER Sylvia MOSS - Judi RADIN
22 Geeske JOEL - Tobi SOKOLOW

Xuefeng FENG -Yanhui SUN Brenda BRYANT - Kathy SULGROVE Renee MANCUSO - Sheri WINESTOCK Susan CULHAM - Kismet FUNG Pinpin DENG - Julie ZHU
23 Ming SUN - Hongli WANG 24 Angela DOSSENA - Luigina GENTILI 25 Cheri BJERKAN - Rozanne POLLACK 26 Lynn BAKER - Karen MCCALLUM 27 Sylvia CALEY - Gail Moss GREENBERG 28 Cynthia HINCKLEY - Diana SCHULD
Jo CASEN - Mickie CHAMBERS
10 Nevena DJUROVIC - Pauline EVANS 11 Janice SEAMON-MOLSON - Carlyn STEINER 12 Ling GU -Yan LU
29 Maria GARATEGUY - Maria Elena IACAPRARO 46.36 30 Maud KHOURI - Nada WATTAR 31 Agota MANDELOT - Leda PAIN 32 Victoria GROMOVA - Tatiana PONOMAREVA 33 Sue PICUS - Shawn QUINN
46.18 46.09 45.65 45.02 44.65 44.61 42.37
13 Ping WANG - Shaohong WU 14 Ellie HANLON - Maryse SAVKO 15 Georgiana GATES - Pat NORMAN 16 Allison HOWARD - Pamela NISBET 17 Joan EATON - Candace GRIFFEY 18 Petra HAMMAN - Peggy SUTHERLIN
34 Bing DU - Juan LI 35 Jet PASMAN - Anneke SIMONS 36 Patrizia CECCONI - Rita PASQUARE

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1 - 16 October 2010

IMP PAIRS

Rank

Names

Result

2502.0 2391.0

37 Bob ETTER - Bob MORRIS

173.0

38.0

1 Joao-Paulo CAMPOS - MiguelVILLAS-BOAS

2 Onno ESKES -Vincent KROES
38 Jiang GU - Xiaodong SHI 39 Ahmed HUSSEIN - Apolinary KOWALSKI 40 Meng KANG - Shaolin SUN 41 Masayuki INO - Tadashi TERAMOTO 42 Jaroslaw CIESLAK - Piotr ZAK
31.0
3 Judith GARTAGANIS - Nicholas GARTAGANIS 2293.0 4 Daniel WILDERMAN - Kenneth ZUCKERBERG 2217.0
0.0
-7.0
5 Michal KOPECKY - Josef KURKA 6 Boguslaw GIERULSKI - Jerzy SKRZYPCZAK
1823.0 1800.0
-38.0
43 Ralph BUCHALTER - Alexander ORNSTEIN 44 Andrew ROSENTHAL - Aaron SILVERSTEIN 45 David WALKER - Kevin WILSON 46 R Jay BECKER - Robert SARTORIUS 47 Manol ILIEV - Stefan STEFANOV 48 Richard COREN - Barnet J SHENKIN 49 Radu MIHAI - Paul WEINSTOCK 50 Catherine CAPLAN - Paul CAPLAN 51 Gordon CAMPBELL - Piotr KLIMOWICZ 52 Bobby JONES - Jim KREKORIAN 53 Anna ST CLAIR - Dee HARLEY 54 Peter BERTHEAU - Gunnar HALLBERG 55 Philippe SOULET - Maurice TCHENIO 56 Chuck BURGER - Dennis KASLE 57 Steve BEATTY - Ronald GERARD 58 Alejandro BIANCHEDI - Ernesto MUZZIO 59 Irving LITVACK - William F. E.TUCKER 60 MichaelYUEN - Maurice DE LA SALLE 61 Roberto BARBOSA - Paulo Roberto BRUM 62 Adam PARRISH - Randall RUBINSTEIN 63 Mckenzie MYERS - Robert TODD 64 Craig GANZER - R POPPER
-110.0 -281.0 -304.0 -453.6 -492.0 -493.0 -499.0 -518.0 -652.0 -669.0 -740.0 -762.0 -770.0 -840.5 -880.0
-1010.0 -1287.0 -1370.0 -1460.0 -1635.0 -1758.0 -1998.0 -2012.0 -2164.0 -2423.0
7 Waldemar FRUKACZ - Krzysztof KOTOROWICZ1715.0

8 Alex GIPSON - Paul GIPSON

1536.0

1476.0 1422.4 1412.0 1380.0 1350.0 1180.0 1115.0 1095.0 1079.0 1048.0 1036.5
986.0
9 Kaustubh BENDRE - Sandeep THAKRAL
10 Kiran NADAR - Bachiraju SATYANARAYANA 11 Mehmet GUNEL - NaciYUKSEL 12 Ari David GREENBERG JR - Billy MILLER 13 Morten BILDE - Jorgen HANSEN 14 Volodymyr DANYLYUK -Vladimir PORHUN 15 Maija ROMANOVSKA - Karlis RUBINS 16 Ricardo ANGELERI - MarceloVILLEGAS 17 Barry SPECTOR - Randy THOMPSON 18 Harley BRESS - GarthYETTICK 19 Kelley HWANG - John ZILIC 20 Willem van EIJCK - Nicolas HAMMOND 21 Gary COHLER - Eric ROBINSON 22 Bruce FERGUSON - Robert HOLLMAN 23 Wolfe THOMPSON - Marc ZWERLING
953.0 951.0 937.0
24 Thomas CHARLSEN - Thor Erik HOFTANISKA 856.3 25 Karen Lee BARRETT - Carol Ann CLIFFORD 26 Rajeev GUPTA - Joyjit SENSARMA 27 Adi KALIANIWALA - B WADIA
849.2 802.7 752.0 740.0 713.5 523.0 410.0 382.0 357.0 272.0
28 Alon APTEKER - Craig GOWER
65 Claire TORNAY - George TORNAY 66 Richard MORGEN - Andy MUENZ 67 Maritha POTTENGER - Judy RIMER
29 Andrew HOSKINS - Jason ROSENFELD 30 Julien GAVIARD - Juan CarlosVENTIN 31 Shireen MOHANDES - Andy BOWLES 32 J BRYANT - Mark LAIR
68 Samuel IEONG - Pedro Leonel Ioklon IEONG -2550.0 69 Stanley DUB - Greg MICHAELS 70 Sally CLARK - Robin TAYLOR 71 Robert HEITZMAN - Stan TULIN 72 Ender AKSUYEK - Marco TER LAARE
-2579.0 -2687.0 -3392.0 -3928.0
33 Dario ATTANASIO - Guiseppe FAILLA 34 Serge BERGHEIMER - Jean-Claude FOUASSIER 35 IsabellaVARGAS DE ANDRADE - Stanley BARG 192.0

36 Makiko SATO - Kyoko SHIMAMURA

175.0

HIRONTROPHY SENIOR PAIRS

Rank

Names

Result

57.14 56.04 55.91 55.15 55.01 53.30 53.16 52.75 52.20 51.79 51.65 50.96 50.48 50.21

15 Albert FAIGENBAUM - Romain ZALESKI

50.07

49.59 49.38 49.04 49.04 48.90 48.35 48.15 47.80 45.54 44.02 43.68 41.83 38.87
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Rich DEMARTINO - Patrick MCDEVITT Lew FINKEL - Dan GERSTMAN Kyoko OHNO - AkihikoYAMADA Sam LEV - Reese MILNER
16 Ken COHEN - Neal SATTEN 17 Sandra FRASER - Douglas FRASER 18 Michael GORE - Walter SCHENKER 18 Dan MORSE - John SUTHERLIN 20 Amilcar MAGALHAES - Pedro MANDELOT 21 Rebecca (Becky) ROGERS - John GRANTHAM 22 Victor MELMAN - Shalom ZELIGMAN 23 Makoto HIRATA - TadashiYOSHIDA 24 Cynthia COLIN - Jeff HAND
Farid ASSEMI - Edward WOJEWODA Roald RAMER - Jerzy RUSSYAN Bruce NODA - Mark RALPH Tom KNIEST - Don STACK Martin HIRSCHMAN - Franklin KASLE
10 Christian MARI - Stanley WALTER 11 Julian KLUKOWSKI -Victor MARKOWICZ 12 Art GULBRANDSEN - Michael SPERO 13 Jerry GAER - Markland JONES
25 Mohsen Mohamed KAMEL - Wael WATTAR 26 Mickie KIVEL - Nadine WOOD 27 Arnold FISHER - Fred PAUL

14 Robert BITTERMAN - Jerry HELMS

28 Barbara KEPPLE - Carl BERENBAUM

5

Final — Session 1

Rosenblum Cup

by Brent Manley

ForThose Who Like Action

The first quarter of the Rosenblum Cup final match between the Nick Nickell and John Diamond teams promised to be a hard-fought affair. The Nickell squad have proven themselves in high-level competition, and the Diamond team ran roughshod over the Rosenblum field to get to the championship round. fusion and a less-than-optimum result. On board 2 in the Nickell-Diamond match, there was a feeling of déjà vu.

Board 2. Dealer East. N/SVul.

[ J 5 ] J 10 7 { A Q J 9 } 9 6 4 3

There was action on the first board out of the box.
Board 1. Dealer North. NoneVul.

[ A Q 9 ] 3 { K 10 8 5 } K J 10 8 5
[ 10 7 6 2 ] Q 9 6 5 2 { 7 6

N

[ J 9 6 5 ] 8 3 2 { J 8 6 4 } 8 7

W

E
S

} A Q
[ K 8 4 3 ] A K 8 4 { 4 3 2
[ A 8 4 ] Q 9 7 { K 5 3
[ K Q 10 3 2 ] A K J 10 5 { 9 7

N

W

E

} 7 2

S

} Q 9 5 4

} 10

West

Hampson

North

Hamman

East

Greco

Pass 1]

South

Zia

[ 7 ] 6 4

Pass Pass

{ A Q 10 2 } A K J 6 3 2

1{* 2}
Pass

Pass

2{

All Pass

West

Rodwell

North

East

South

There was no chance for Geoff Hampson to make this contract on a 4-2 fit with all those high trumps on his left. The result was two down for minus 100.

Moss

Meckstroth Gitelman

Pass 4[
1[ 2}

All Pass

2[

Pass

West

Rodwell

North

Moss

East

South

Fred Gitelman and Brad Moss had only two tricks coming to them, and Meckstroth quickly chalked up plus 450. At the other table, Zia Mahmood bid too much and landed in the proverbial soup.

Meckstroth Gitelman

Pass 1]
Pass

Pass

1{*

2}
Pass All Pass

West

Hampson

North

Hamman

Pass

East

Greco

1[

South

Zia

Both pairs play Precision, so a 1{ opener can often be made on a doubleton with a five-card club suit on the side. Meckstroth’s pass turned out to be an excellent decision. Brad Moss started with a low trump, taken in dummy by Rodwell with the ace.The [2 went to the 9 and jack, and Moss got out with a second spade to the 6, 8 and queen. Rodwell pulled trumps by playing the }K from hand, then
2}

2[

Pass

5}
4] Pass
4NT

Pass

Dble

All Pass

If Zia’s 4NT suggested minors, Hamman must have thought his partner’s primary suit was much longer than it actually was. Not that 5{ was going to be a bargain. exited with the {8. Moss won the 9 and played a low Zia’s aggressive bid cost the team minus 800, and Diamond was off to an 8-0 lead. In the semifinal round the on Tuesday night, a falsecard on defense by theWolfson team appeared to lead to conheart. Rodwell put in the 9 and Gitelman played the ace. A spade to the ace put Rodwell in,Moss discarding the {J. Rodwell now played the {K to Moss’s ace, and he could have scuttled the contract by forcing out Rodwell’s last