Gold Coast Bulletin

No 4 Wednesday 23rd Feb 2005 Editors Nick Hughes & Nicoleta Giura

Silverware going offshore and John Holland, Major Pairs Winners bridge professionals from England, Prize Money goes to the top three in won the Gold Coast Pairs yesterday. all sections, down to the Z Consola- Both have represented England, tion (& to 5th in Championships, 4th Michelle has won a World Champi- in Plates). Major prizes will be pre- onship (the in Brazil) sented at the Victory Dinner. Others They are on their second trip to can get theirs after 6pm Friday from Surfers. This time Adelaide, Mel- the ANA desk. bourne, Perth and Uluru are on their itinerary. Championship (& Playoff Points) Michelle & John 1 J Holland - M Brunner Michelle warmed up for yesterday’s 2 M Cornell - R Jedrychowski 20 Success on their second visit final session by giving a talk at the 3 K Dyke - D Wiltshire 15 well-attended teacher’s meeting. 4 M Courtney - P Wyer 10 She will also be one of the panellists Hands from the final 5 P Gosney - N van Jole 5 on the second You ask, We answer, Here’s a neat : tonight at around 11pm. ]KJT3 Best Women’s Pair Mike Cornell & Ryszard [K M Gidley-Baird - R Finkelstein Jedrychowski had a big final set to }AQT Open Plate overtake Kieran Dyke and David {JT964 1 B Neill - R Klinger Wiltshire, who led overnight but ]Q87652 ]A4 2 J Wignall - B Scott scored below average in Session 3. [6 [J942 3 A & K Nelson Bruce Neill and Ron Klinger won the }J92 }8765 Plate comfortably. {AK2 {873 Seniors Championship Ask the Experts ]9 [AQT8753 1 P Kahler - J Collins 20 Tonight at the end of play, in the }K43 2 I McKinnon - W Westwood 15 Tilba Rooms at the ANA, Michelle {Q5 3 T Lenart - Freeman-Greene Brunner will be joined by Australia’s 4 P Collins - I Afflick 10 leading bridge theorist and publisher David Wiltshire and Michelle Brun- 5 B Hunt - R Lachman 5 of Australian Bridge – Paul Marston ner both made 4[. Deep Seniors Plate and laconic all-swimming has no problems defeating it, seeing 1 A Doddridge - J Lenart all-dancing Bobby Richman, al- the need to attack dummy’s entries 2 P Chan - J Hewitt ways the centre of attention. by leading diamonds whenever pos- In the Tilba Room, level 2 ANA, just sible. after the end of the evening session. Against Wiltshire, West cashed the Restricted Championship $1 or $2 donation to charity will get {A and switched well to a trump. He 1= P Trenerry - R Groom you a ringside seat. won the next club and led a spade to 1= G McCarthy - B Carroll the king and ace. East naturally re- 3 E & S Kotzander Restricted Plate 1 D Johnson - J Watson Gold Coast Teams (Seniors at GCI, Restricted at ANA) 2 B Horton - J Harris Wed 1pm & 7.30 Swiss Rds3-6 11pm “You ask, we answer” at ANA Thu 10.30 & 3.30 Swiss Rds 7 - 10, don’t sleep in Thursday night off for everyone Fri 9.30 Semis start, then 2pm 11am Restricted & Seniors finals start 12.30 Swiss Rds 11 & 12, finishing at 5 pm 8 pm Vu-graph at ANA, first 20 boards of final The semis and the final will be cov- Sat 9.30 ANA Shield starts, walk-in, 9.45 cut-off ered live by Bridgebase’s online 9am Final bds 21-50 . Go to bridgebase.com. 7.30 for 8 pm Dinner/Dance

(1) 44th Gold Coast Congress at the ANA & GCI turned a spade, ruffed. Here’s a nice slam from the last set: When West showed out on the [A, Final 3, Bd 11, S/Nil GNOT change Wiltshire saw what he needed to do ]KQ2 ]AT On the back page of yesterday’s – twice in hand to reduce his [Q [AKT52 Bulletin, I published a date and trump length, then get to dummy at }AQT64 }J532 venue for this year’s GNOT fi- trick 11 to coup East’s [J-9. {A762 {Q9 nals in November. In fact this matter is yet to be decided – it That meant three diamond entries to will be considered at the ABF dummy, so he played the }K to the 1} 1[ Management Committee meet- ace, ruffed a club, then a diamond to 2{ 2] ing this weekend. the ten for a spade ruff, then over to 3NT 4} the }Q at trick 11. etc You’ll read about it in the next ABF Newsletter or online at Good cardplay wins pairs events. In At one table, East-West started this abf.com.au. the game where every trick counts, a way, reaching 6} and making 12 sound knowledge of squeeze theory tricks when the trump finesse failed. can make all the difference. Brunner On to the next and a similar showed her skill here: auction for North-South, this time Dinner Dance Final 2, Bd 6 stopping in 5}, again making 12 Although it still seems a long E/EW ]AQJ853 tricks. way away, you need to get your [AJ9 “Hang on, we’ve already got a score }9 tables organized today. First in, for Board 11.” A sleepy North had best tables. {A93 picked up the same board and ro- Complimentary if you are ]T942 ]6 tated it through 90º ! Yes, it’s a long, playing in Pairs and Teams, $30 [Q765 [T843 gruelling event. }64 }QT753 if you’ve just arrived. $60 for {KJ4 {T86 Loose Lips Department non-entrants. You can collect ]K7 South helped Peter Jamieson make tickets after 5pm on Friday. [K2 this slam from the Pairs: }AKJ82 Final 3, Bd 25 {Q752 N/EW ]5 One Teams hand [T73 Okay who bid that 7} in the first ses- It’s easy enough to reach 6] but the }Q976532 sion and knew what they were do- winners reached 6NT/S. Brunner {92 ing? Entries in the box please. This figured 6] could well make 13 tricks ]K963 ]AJ8 is it: and figured she had to match them. [K98 [AJ54 Teams 1, Bd 10 (rotated) West found the best lead of a spade, }A }J4 ]AKQ ]3 which she won in dummy to take the {KT654 {AQ83 [— [JT85 diamond finesse. 12 tricks now. ]QT742 }KJ94 }AT76532 She cashed the }A-K pitching clubs, [Q62 {AT9765 {3 unblocked the ]K and {A, then ran }KT8 spades to reach this expected end- {J7 ing: WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH E/EW ]5 Ruth PJ [AJ9 No 1{ 1]? }— 2] No 2NT No Tuesday walk-in winners {— 4{ No 4[ No L Edrich - J Lovell ]— ]— 6{ End L Abbenbroek - M Aikin [? 76 [? T8 }— }Q Declarer “knew” South had ]QTxxx N Mcmillan - A Webb {K {— and likely [Q. On a trump lead, he P Barker - S Barlow ]— stripped diamonds, cashed the ]A [K2 then played [A-K in an attempt to }8 drop the queen then exited with a {Q heart to South. You ask, we answer Placing the {K with West, she had The next and last session is on the rest. East must pitch a heart on Wednesday night after Match 6, the ]5, so South discards the }8. in the Tilba Rooms on Level 2 West also has to pitch a heart to ANA.. Throw your questions at a hang on to the {K, so the [J must panel that will include (World win trick 13. It didn’t matter where Champion) Michelle Brunner, the [Q was. Paul Marston, Bobby Richman.

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(3) 44th Gold Coast Congress at the ANA & GCI Gold Star Addition Teacher’s Meeting Malcolm Allan, who played his first Joan Butts Gold Coast in 1974, missing none since. What a buzz there was at the teachers’ meeting on What does this sequence show? Tuesday morning, with an WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH international flavour! 1NT 2{ 2[ 2] ? 50 keen faces filled the room to hear Michelle Brun- Playing simple Stayman and trans- ner’s account of her mobile fers, what does East have? bridge clubs in Manchester, A good idea for this to simply show her teaching style which in- an invitation to 2NT with four cludes making “cuppas” for These four tied for first in the Restricted Pairs. spades. That helps opener in this the students, and her pas- Bruce Carroll & Gayle McCarthy predicament: sion for the weak notrump. Penny Trenerry & Rita Groom ]AJ65 1NT 2{ David Greenwood gave us [KT43 2[ 2NT the Irish picture, reminding }KQ4 ? us of the strong Catholic tradition {A6 which meant that cards were still If responder bids this way with or seen as “” in some without four spades – because 2NT quarters. He too teaches weak directly is a transfer to diamonds – notrump and, like Michelle, accumu- West may be worried about missing lates many hands for use in classes a 4-4 spade fit. If there’s no fit, why and supervised play sessions. help the defence by showing the John McIlrath, the Easybridge spe- spades? Also, 3] is presumably cialist in Sydney, sees his role as forcing – choice of contracts – so that of motivator and entertainer for West has a problem on a minimum his students. The aim is to bring with four spades, the hand where them as quickly as possible into fun 3] might be better than 2NT. games in clubs. We also had the Nick Hughes benefit of Ron Klinger’s vast experi- ence. The experts concur with his Who is Alan Woods? recommendation to open 1NT as of- ten as practical, even with a 5-card He’s making a comeback to bridge major – way to go! after a 30 year lay off. He is men- Jeannette Collins & Peter Kahler Joan Butts suggested that teachers tioned in the Bridge Encyclopaedia. won the Senior Pairs spend more time on cardplay and Amongst other things he is, with Bob defence than they are currently do- Sebesfi, the inventor of SWINE: ing. Richard Solomon gave us the Postfree Bridge Books Sebesfi - Woods - 1N - Extraction. view from New Zealand. 3 Recorders New books, software, club sup- When ABTA President Lorraine plies, quality second hand Add John Lenart to your list of re- Harkness closed proceedings, ev- bridge books from your favourite corders. The others are Brian eryone agreed that the morning had authors. O’Hara and John Brockwell. been well worth it. Paul Lavings has a few books and items with him at Surfers: Always old, sometimes new, never Omar Sharif Talks Bridge sad, sometimes blue. Never empty, by Omar Sharif and sometimes full, never pushes, Contacting the Editors $29.95 Delightful book, many always pulls. What am I? Nicoleta and I are at the ANA, asides, anecdotes and hands, a Rm 1810. The mobile is 0414 full chapter on his 1976 Austra- 601 175, or email to lian trip. [email protected] I Fought the Law of Total Fill out a “What happened” form Tricks by Mike Lawrence & An- if you can find one, throw it in a ders Wigren $28.95 Bulletins Contribution box or Why the Law doesn’t work, and hand it to a passing director. a suggested alternative method. We’ll be in the ANA bar for half Also bridge brooches, T-shirts, an hour after each session. software.

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