Bulletin 3 Monday, 18 June 2007 NOW - IT’S A KNOCK OUT!

Day two of the European Mixed Team Championships was all about occupying one of the qualifying places in the two Swiss sections when the music stopped. Two of the teams who dominated yesterdays play, Russia and Ozlen were at the top of Swiss A, the Russian’s distinguishing themselves by topping the century mark for the second day in succession. In Swiss B Penfold dominated proceedings to become one of the five teams to emerge from the repechage, and they also reached three figures. Contents Today’s Schedule Mixed Teams Results ...... 2 Mixed Pairs Registration 08.30/10.30 Mixed Teams Round 3 ...... 4 Mixed Teams (Round of 32) 10.00 A Zillion Bids ...... 8 Swing Boards ...... 9 Mixed Pairs (Qualifying 1st Session) 10.30 Round I - Group F ...... 10 Mixed Teams (Round of 16) 15.00 Club Sluggers ...... 12 Mixed Pairs (Qualifying 2nd Session) 15.30 Mixed Teams Swiss - Match of the Day ...... 13 3rd EUROPEAN OPEN BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS Antalya, Turkey

MIXED TEAMS RANKING MIXED TEAMS RANKING SWISS A SWISS B

1 RUSSIA 105 1 PENFOLD 102 2 OZLEN 94 2 HAUGE 97 3 EMRE 94 3 DE BOTTON 95 4 MAHAFFEY 93 4 DHONDY 93 5 GARP44 87 5 ALERT 92 6 HERBST 87 6 PISANI 89 7 CLIFFORD 87 7 ASLANLI 86 8 RIOLO 85 8 ROSSARD 85 9 VRIEND 85 9 BAYKAL 85 10 VENTIN 85 10 ULUS 81 11 HAMMERLI 85 11 WORCESTER 80 12 NEVE 83 12 KOLATA 79 13 ERICHSEN 83 13 MOSKO 79 14 VARENNE 82 14 COVO 78 15 MILNER 81 15 SAYER 78 16 POPOVA 81 16 PANA 77 17 MATUJONA 81 17 ODEVA 77 18 LE PIN 81 18 BUCHLEV 76 19 LAZY 79 19 SCHIFKO 76 20 GELIN 79 20 SEMERCI 74 21 BRUNNER 77 21 RAINWATER 73 22 MOUIEL 75 22 M&A 72 23 VAN HELSING 74 23 PRUSA 72 24 POLAND1 72 24 MIDAS 71 25 KOVACHEV 71 26 ERGIL 70 25 SELCUK 71 27 PAYEN 70 26 BRIAN ZIETMAN 71 28 GRENTHE 65 27 PICCIONI 69 29 BRIGADA 64 28 ZENNE 69 30 YADLIN 63 29 AKIN MUHENDISLIK 69 31 GOOD LUCK 63 30 KALI 65 32 ANAPA 61 31 ALEXANDER 60 33 TEASAI 49 32 BANKOGLU 58 34 CIFTCI 47 33 HARPER 54 35 CIMA 46 34 FENWICK 47 36 GWINNER 46 35 SAESSELI 44

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Simple exercise. Mixed pairs The players not qualifying for the Hearts are trumps. Can you make three tricks with quarter finals of the Mixed Teams East to play? need to enter the pairs event to- morrow, playing the 3rd and 4th [2 sessions in the qualification stage. ]— They get a carry over of 52.5% if {5 4 knocked out in the round of 32 }2 and 53% if knocked out in the round of 16. [—N [A ] A J 10 ] 2 The A semi final will consist of 104 pairs of which ap- W E {A {3 2 proximately 15 will come from the quarter and semi fi- }}S nals of the Mixed Teams. [— ] K Q 9 {— }A

Solution to follow tomorrow.

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Mixed Teams Round 3 by Barry Rigal For Round Three I was watching the France-Switzerland the lead locked in dummy. In fact the defenders played a encounter, with the Croniers taking on Pana/Mucha, and club at trick three so declarer won and took the diamond Levy/Willard playing Horvath/Duong. finesse for nine tricks. 10-2 to the French. The next deal saw Benedicte Cronier refuse to let her I was watching Philippe Cronier, and after a nice defence husband get his hands on the dummy; right she was. by the Swiss had earned them 2 IMPs against a pass-out in the other room, the second deal gave both partnerships for Board 23. Dealer South. All Vul. team Mouiel a chance to shine. [K 5 ]9 Board 22. Dealer East. E/W Vul. { 8 5 4 3 [ 10 8 6 5 } K J 10 9 6 4 ]A 7 [ 3N [ A Q J 10 8 7 6 { A K J 7 4 3 ] A K J 7 6 5 ] 4 W E }A { A 9 6 { Q 10 2 [ A 4 3N [ Q J 9 } Q 7 5S } 3 2 ] 10 9 5 ] K J 3 2 W E [ 9 4 2 { Q 8 6 { 9 5 ] Q 10 8 3 2 S } J 8 4 2 } Q 9 7 6 { K J 7 [ K 7 2 }A 8 ] Q 8 6 4 { 10 2 In one room Katalin Horvath invited to game in spades } K 10 5 3 and accepted her partner’s choice of playing Three No- trumps. On a club lead the defenders took the first six West North East South tricks and eventually took one more winner for +300. Philippe C Pana Benedicte C Mucha Benedicte simply jumped to Four Spades and the defend- Duong Levy Horvath Willard ers found the club lead. Declarer ruffed the third club with Pass Pass Pass 1{ Pass 1] Pass 1[ Pass 1NT Pass 3{ Pass 3NT All Pass

At both tables West led a low club and saw their partners contribute an encouraging spot card. What should declar- er do now? Rita Mucha elected to lead a low diamond to her ten, protecting against a bad diamond break but giving up on a number of legitimate chances. The defenders still have to be careful here, and I thought Philippe Cronier did exceptionally well to play declarer to have followed this sort of approach, and return a diamond. On the run of the diamonds Benedicte pitched a club then a heart, and now Cronier pitched the club jack as his first discard. That now allowed both defenders to let go most of their clubs, and in the six-card ending declarer had to keep three hearts, two spades, and the bare king of clubs. With the spade ace offside there was nothing she could do that would work; down one In the other room Sylvie Willard also did very well, I thought, by winning the opening lead and playing a spade to her king at once. In this position the best defence is to shift to a heart. Now declarer must go up with the ace and exit with a major. If she does not, the defenders win the heart king and cash both spades then exit with a heart, leaving Phillipe Cronier

4 15-30 June 2007 3rd EUROPEAN OPEN BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS the jack (passing the first test) and when Mucha pitched a Both tables reached Three No-trumps here from the heart, declarer had a real problem. The losing line is to lead West seat, and both tables led the spade jack. Cronier cov- spades from hand, since that sets up a trump promotion. ered with the queen, and Mucha made the mistake of win- Declarer unerringly crossed to dummy with a heart and ning with the king and cashing the ace. Now a club shift took the spade finesse, and when the spade king accom- would have been too late. Declarer can play low from hand modatingly put in an early appearance Benedicte could run and win the king, then run the diamonds to triple squeeze the trumps and squeeze South for no less than 11 tricks. North. In the six-card ending that player must keep the 26-2 now. spade ten, and four hearts thus only one club. When the That optimistic approach to the bidding had worked so bad trump break comes to light declarer exits with a club well that Benedicte decided to try going to the well again. to endplay North to lead hearts into the tenace. And yet again she judged her moment perfectly. In fact the defenders cashed two spades and shifted to a heart. Philippe won and played a third spade, and now Pana Board 24. Dealer West. None Vul. did well when he exited with a diamond. Cronier elected [Q 7 to win in hand and lead a club to his king for his ninth trick. ] K J 6 5 3 In the other room Levy was allowed to holds the spade jack. He shifted accurately to the club queen, losing to the { A 6 2 king as Willard showed four clubs. Now four rounds of di- } 9 8 6 amonds followed, and Levy could afford to let go one [ A K 6 3N [ J 10 9 8 5 4 2 heart, a low spade, and the club ten. Declarer had eight ] A 9 4 ] — tricks but no endplay, since when he was put on lead with W E { 5 4 { Q 8 3 the spade ten, Levy could get out with ace and a low club at the critical moment. That allowed the defenders to cash } K Q J 5S } 7 3 2 out for down 200 and 13 IMPs. Well done both pairs; 47-2 [— for team Mouiel. ] Q 10 8 7 2 That was the end of the excitement in terms of IMPs { K J 10 9 7 changing hands, although Levy/Willard continued their ex- } A 10 4 cellent set by finding the defence to a game which had also been found by Pana/Mucha, and stealing a board in a West North East South partscore on a deal where Philippe had (quite rationally) Philippe C Pana Benedicte C Mucha misguessed an ace-queen combination where he would have brought home a game had he guessed right. The 46 IMPs win 1NT Pass 4[ All Pass for Mouiel converted to a 25-2 win for them.

West North East South Duong Levy Horvath Willard 1NT Pass 2] 2[ 3[ 4] 4[ Pass Pass 5] 5[ All Pass The jump to Four Spades bought the pot — and a spec- tacularly suitable dummy for +420. In the other room Willard’s Two Spade call showed a two-suiter with hearts and now N/S could push their opponents to the five-level. Another 10 IMPs to the French; 34-2. Board 26. Dealer East. All Vul. [ J 10 4 ] J 9 5 3 2 {4 } A Q 10 3 [ 9 8 2N [ Q 7 6 3 ] A K Q 10 8 ] 7 6 W E { K J 10 { A Q 9 7 } J 5S } K 6 4 [ A K 5 ]4 { 8 6 5 3 2 } 9 8 7 2 Rita Mucha

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Shanghai 2007 Bermuda Bowl, Venice Cup & Seniors Bowl World Transnational Open Teams Championships From 29th September to 13th October

is open to teams composed of players coming from different THE CHAMPIONSHIPS countries, nominated by their National Bridge Organisation (Provisional Programme) and approved by the WBF Credentials Committee.

The Opening Ceremony will be on 29th September 2007, at the It is a great opportunity for players to participate in a won- invitation of Chinese Bridge Association. derful bridge tournament while at the same time having a unique opportunity to experience all the atmosphere and The Bermuda Bowl, Venice Cup & Senior Bowl: Round Robin excitement of the final stages of the Bermuda Bowl and will start on Sunday 30th September and finish on Saturday 14th Venice Cup and watch some of the greatest players in the October, with the final knock-out stages starting on Sunday 7th. world on the first class vugraph presentation. Players wishing to compete in this Championship should contact their NBO In these 3 events the Quarter Final will end before the start of and request nomination by the end of July 2007. There is no the Transnational Open Teams on Monday 8th October, allow- quota, and NBOs may nominate as many teams as they wish to ing people who want to play this event to be free on time. compete in this great tournament.

The Closing Ceremony, which will include the prize giving, Players eliminated from the Round Robin of the Bermuda Bowl followed by a victory banquet/or Cocktail will take place on & Venice Cup, as well as those from the Seniors Bowl will be able Saturday 13th October. to enter the World Transnational Open Teams Championship free of charge if they enter as a complete team. If they join play- In accordance with the provisional schedule, the play will start ers who are coming to Shanghai just to play in this event, then daily at 10.00/10.30 a.m. and finish at 7.30/8.30 p.m., except on a substantial discount on the entry fee is offered. Oct 8th when play will be extended to 11.00/11.30 p.m. The World Transnational Open Teams will take place during the second week, starting in the late afternoon on Monday 8th THE WORLD TRANSNATIONAL October. The format will be Swiss Teams. It is normally played OPEN TEAMS as 10-board matches (3, 4 or 5 per day) for 15 qualifying rounds (150 boards). The Quarter Final will start on Thursday The 6th World Transnational Open Teams Championships is a late afternoon, the Semi Final will be played on Friday 12th prestigious and most enjoyable event. Being Transnational, it October and the Final will end on Saturday 13th October.

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REGISTRATION THE VENUE

REGISTRATION OF TEAMS Shanghai is situated on the estuary of Yangtze River of China. • Bermuda Bowl / Venice Cup 15th June It is the largest industrial city in China. • Seniors Bowl 15th June Originally, Shanghai was a seaside village and in time its grad- • World Transnational Open Teams 15th June ual development led to it being granted County status during REGISTRATION OF PLAYERS NAMES the Yuan Dynasty (13th Century). Today’s Shanghai is a multi • Bermuda Bowl / Venice Cup / Seniors Bowl 1st July cultural metropolis with both modern and traditional Chinese • Seniors Bowl 1st July • World Transnational Open Teams 15th September features. Modern Shanghai has three key areas of interest to the visitor: PAYMENT OF ENTRY FEES • sightseeing • Bermuda Bowl / Venice Cup US$ 3,500 1st July • Seniors Bowl US$ 3,500 1st July • it is a shopper’s paradise • World Transnational Open Teams US$ 1,000 15th September • a wide variety of cuisines can be found in the city. (4 or 6 new players) Players & NPCs (but not coaches) from the Bermuda Bowl, Venice Cup & The play will take place at the Shanghai International Seniors Bowl may participate in the World Transnational Open Teams Convention centre ( ) a free of charge if they enter as a complete team of such players. This http://www.shicc.net/en/briefing.htm applies even if they are from different countries or series. truly wonderful venue for this important championship. It is a If players from the main Championship events join players coming to luxury 5-star convention centre and hotel facing the historic Shanghai to participate in the WTOTC the following discounts on the Bund of Huangpu river. entry fees will be offered: The main hotel will be: Oriental Riverside Hotel and other • For teams containing 1 player /NPC who hotels nearby will also be available at a variety of prices. participated in the Championship events: $850 • For teams with 2 such players: $750 • For teams with 3 such players: $500 The participants can make the hotel booking through • For teams with 4 such players: $350 Mr. Pan Zhong Long Email: [email protected] • For teams with 5 such players: $200 Fax: 00 86 21 64396295 REGISTRATION OF SYSTEMS Tel: 00 86 13701656108 • Bermuda Bowl & Venice Cup & Senior Bowl 10th August

ENTRIES must be sent to: The World Bridge Federation 40, rue François 1er 75008 Paris - France [email protected]

SYSTEMS

For Bermuda Bowl, Venice Cup & Senior Bowl, the conditions of contest will give full details of systems regulations and registra- tion, but players should note that it will be a requirement that all systems are registered in advance via e mail to Anna Gudge: [email protected] No HUM, or Brown Sticker conventions will be permitted at any stage of the Round Robin in either the Bermuda Bowl or Venice Cup nor will they be permitted at any stage of the Senior Bowl.

Pairs wishing to register Brown Sticker systems for use in the KO phase must register these, together with the relevant BS forms, by 10th August 2007. No extension to this deadline will be accepted.

HOTEL INFORMATION

Number Distance Time to Quotation for the stay Quotation only for the stay Hotels of rooms to venue the venue by car From Sep. 29 to Oct. 14 World Transnational Open Team Dollar price conversion as at 14/6/06 Dollar price conversion as at 14/6/06 ***** Contact Oriental Riverside Hotel limited Next door 0 $185 Mr Pan Zhong Long ***** Intercontinental Pudong Shanghai 200 rooms 1.5 km 10 min 1200 RMB ($150) 1320 RMB ($165) ***** Purple Mountain Hotel 230 rooms 1.5 km 10 min 1000 RMB ($125) 1100 RMB ($140) **** Courtyard Marriot Shanghai - Pudong 200 rooms 1.5 km 10 min 870 RMB ($110) 950 RMB ($120) *** Shanghai Changhang - Merrylin Hotel 100 rooms 1.5 km 10 min 500 RMB ($65) 550 RMB ($70)

All the fees above including breakfast, the hotels will charge service fees. The service charge is thought to be 15%

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A Zillion Bids by Jan Van Cleef You have this hand: Board 2. Dealer East. N/S Vul. [Q 5 [ 6 4 ] - { A J 10 9 7 6 2 } K Q 7 4 ]J 3 { K 10 7 4 2 Green against red you have an easy bid after: } A J 6 2 (Pass) — Pass — (4[) - ? [ J 10 8 4 3 2N [ A K 9 ] 2 ] A K Q 10 7 5 W E Of course you bid 5{. It goes on: { 9 3 { J 8 5 } 10 9 5 4S } 8 (dbl) — 5] — (dbl) - ? [7 6 All of a sudden a zillion bids are available: ] 9 8 6 4 { A Q 6 - Pass: from here on it is your responsibility, partner } K Q 7 3 - rdbl: SOS West North East South - 5[: pick-a-slam R. Bowdery B. Brogeland I. Saesseli T. Brogeland - 5NT: pick-a-slam, but passable in unlikely cases 1] Pass - 6}: second suit Pass Dble 3] ? - 6{: no nonsense Tonje Brogeland-Aasand did not have such an easy bid Down below you will find out what Boye Brogeland’s bid here. She decided to double: ‘cards’ and North decided to was. By the way the Norwegian team (the Brogelands, the pass. Spade lead, twelve tricks, EW +830. Helnesses and the Erichsens) won the mixed teams two Board 6. Dealer East. E/W Vul. years ago in Tenerife. The defending champions had a rough [6 4 time on this one: ]— { A J 10 9 7 5 2 } K Q 7 4 [ A K 8 7 5 3 2N [ Q 10 ] K Q 2 ] J 10 9 7 3 W E { 8 { K Q 6 3 } 10 2S } 9 8 [J 9 ] A 8 6 5 4 {4 } A J 6 5 3 When you play ‘Muiderberg’ you will find the top spot from time to time Bep Vriend and Anton Maas displayed good handling of their version of the famous Dutch open- ing bid: West North East South Maas Vriend Pass 2] 3[ 4{ Pass 5} All Pass

The 2] opener showed 5-11 HCP, a five card major plus a minor suit. 4{ was natural, forcing and convertible. Bep Vriend duly took her eleven tricks. At the other table the club game was missed. Did you recognize the hand? We go back to Boye Broge- lands bidding options from above, he selected 6{. There it Tonje Brogeland rested, doubled though. EW plus 300.

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Swing Boards by Jan Van Cleef Mixed Teams, qualification in groups, round 5 fore switched to a low heart. Declarer won the nine and The final match of the first day brought together two his contract. teams which, by then, were the leaders of the pack in West North East South Group J: Vriend (Nr. 1) and Herbst (Nr. 2). The match was Barel Maas Tal Vriend decided by two exciting boards. First: 1{ Pass 1[ Dble Board 12. Dealer West. N/S Vul. 2[ 4] 4[ All Pass [Q ] K 10 7 2 Bep Vriend kicked off with the ace of hearts and { K Q 9 8 6 4 2 switched to a diamond. After drawing trumps Dana Tal }3 tested the clubs. When she discovered the 5-1 break, de- [ A 10 6 2 [ K J 7 5 4 3 clarer took her last chance: the ruffing finesse in hearts. N That worked. The double game swing netted 14 IMPs in ] Q J 6 3 ] 8 W E favour of Herbst. { A 7 3 { 10 Suppose South would had led a neutral diamond or } 9 4S } K 10 6 5 2 spade. In that case declarer — after drawing trumps - could [9 8 (or perhaps should) make her contract by playing a low ] A 9 5 4 club to the nine and later take a ruffing finesse in clubs. {J 5 Board 17. Dealer North. None Vul. } A Q J 8 7 [2 West North East South ] A K Q 4 3 2 Verhees Herbst Wortel Barr Pass 1{ 3[ Dble {K 10 4[ 5{ All Pass } A 4 3 2 [ Q 7 5N [ A K J 10 3 Over Four Spades, North, Ilan Herbst, had a tough deci- ] 10 9 7 5 ] 8 W E sion. Pass, Five Hearts and even 4NT are reasonable possi- { 9 8 7 3 2 { A Q 6 5 bilities. Herbst opted to bid Five Diamonds. Meike Wortel }6S }8 7 5 led a spade to the ace of West, Louk Verhees. It is easy to see that on a spade continuation declarer has no play. [ 9 8 6 4 Looking at dummy’s long clubs, Verhees saw no better de- ]J 6 fence then to place East with the king of hearts. He there- {J 4 } K Q J 10 9 West North East South Verhees Herbst Wortel Barr 1] 1[ Pass Pass Dble 2{ 3} 3{ 5} All Pass A diamond lead would leave declarer without a chance. Verhees however led a low spade and declarer was home. Afterwards Verhees was the first to admit that on the lead of the queen of spades he would still have had time for the killing shift. West North East South Barel Maas Tal Vriend 1] 1[ Pass Pass Dble 2{ 3} 4[ 5} Pass Pass 5{ All Pass The final contract proved to be rock solid. Yet another double game swing to Herbst (13 IMPs). Herbst beat Vriend by 23 — 7 VP and won the group, Dana Tal Vriend finishing second.

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Round 1 - Group F by Peter Ventura In the first round we sat down to watch the transnation- hearts to West, then won the spade that came back. The al team Varenne, with players from the Netherlands, Mona- defence can always defeat the contract since declarer can co and the U.S., facing one of many home teams, Zenne, in only enter the dummy twice on his own, but a slip saw Wil- group F. lenken make his contract.

The big swing of the match came immediately. That was 11 IMPs to Varenne and a flying start for them.

Board 1. Dealer North. None Vul. Board 4. Dealer West. All Vul. [Q 6 [ J 7 3 2 ]7 4 ] K 7 4 { A K 3 {4 } A Q 9 6 4 2 } J 9 7 6 4 [ J 9 8 2N [ 7 5 4 3 [ K 8 5 4N [ A 10 ] A Q 10 5 3 ] K ] J 8 ] 6 5 W E W E { Q J 6 4 { 10 8 { A 10 7 6 5 { K J 9 3 2 } —S } K J 8 7 5 3 } 10 5S } A K 8 3 [ A K 10 [ Q 9 6 ] J 9 8 6 2 ] A Q 10 9 3 2 { 9 7 5 2 {Q 8 }10 }Q 2

Open Room: West North East South Kamgozen Willenken Kamgozen Varenne 1NT Pass 2{* Pass 2] Pass 3NT All Pass

Closed Room: West North East South Jansma Senguler Michielsen Dagseven 1NT Pass 2{* Pass 2] Pass 2NT Pass 3NT All Pass

One Notrump would have been a more sensible contract on North-South’s cards but both tables reached an awful no-trump game. A low club was led at both tables and the declarer could start by winning the trick cheaply.

In the Closed Room Jan Jansma discarded the three of hearts on the lead. Zafer Senguler ducked a diamond trick to see what happened next, but when diamonds didn’t split 3-3 he was down two after the smoke had cleared.

Meanwhile Chris Willenken as declarer saw West play the ten of hearts at his table. Chris thought he now might es- tablish the poor heart suit, so he played a heart at trick two to East’s king. He won the spade shift in hand and played on Marion Michielsen

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Open Room: Open Room: West North East South West North East South Kamgozen Willenken Kamgozen Varenne Kamgozen Willenken Kamgozen Varenne Pass Pass 1{ 2] Pass Pass Dble 3] All Pass 4[ 5{ Dble All Pass

If North-South can manage to double Four Spades it Closed Room: could be an expensive affair for East-West. With best de- West North East South fense it will go three down for 800 as there are two club Jansma Senguler Michielsen Dagseven tricks, one diamond, one heart and two heart ruffs to Pass Pass 1NT 2{* collect. Chris Willenken was afraid that Four Spades would make so he sacrificed in Five Diamonds. After a Dble 3] All Pass spade lead he was two down and that was 5 IMPs to Zenne. At both tables East-West missed the opportunity to reach the diamond game. Five Diamonds can make thanks Five Clubs is a far better minor game, both in theory and to the perfect fit, but is not really easy to reach. in practice, since it can be made. As the cards lie two dia- monds have to be ruffed with South’s high clubs before In the Closed Room Naran Dagseven overcalled Two Di- drawing trumps. If you draw the trumps after the defence’s amonds, showing a limited hand with either major, Jan Jans- two spade tricks you will probably go down, you can only ma doubled for points, kind of invitational. North bid Three succeed by playing the ace of diamonds then a high dia- Hearts and when Michielsen’s pass denied four spades Jans- mond and letting it run unless East covers. ma let him to play there. Only a few more IMPs were exchanged in this match The defence slipped slightly at both tables for one down and therefore the first board was crucial for Varenne as and a flat board, when the spade ruff was missed. the final score was 16-14 VPs (15-9 IMPs) in their favour.

Board 6. Dealer East. E/W Vul. [6 4 ]— { A J 10 9 7 5 2 } K Q 7 4 [ A K 8 7 5 3 2N [ Q 10 ] K Q 2 ] J 10 9 7 3 W E { 8 { K Q 6 3 } 10 2S } 9 8 [J 9 ] A 8 6 5 4 {4 } A J 6 5 3

Closed Room West North East South Jansma Senguler Michielsen Dagseven Pass Pass 1[ 5{ Dble All Pass

Jan Jansma opened One Spade and Zafer Senguler imme- diately jumped to Five Diamonds. Marion Michielsen tried the jack of hearts instead of leading partner’s suit. Declar- er now pitched a losing spade on the ace of hearts. Down one.

At the other table Nuray Kamgozen took a different view: Miriam Varenne

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Club Sluggers by Peter Ventura From the second match in the Round Robin we came Four Clubs was primarily natural but what messed across this tragi-comic story when theTurkish team Se- things up here was that you might have to make the call merci met the Dutch team Vriend. without a spade control and heart support. In North’s world Four Spades now showed a spade control and Five Murat Kilercioglu and Billur Araz were N/S and produced Spades two aces and the queen of hearts (trumps). How- the following auction: ever, from South’s perspective Four Spades accepted clubs as trumps and showed a control in spades. After Five Spades South ‘knew’ partner had the two missing Round Robin 2. Board 13. Dealer North. All Vul. aces with the queen of clubs, so Six Clubs appeared to be reasonable from South’s point of view. However, North [ A J 8 didn’t follow as he corrected ‘the final bid’ to Six Dia- ] A Q J 10 9 2 monds. Fine, partner has got something extra in dia- { 8 7 6 2 monds — let’s bid the grand, South might have said. }— Enough’s enough, said West, and doubled. [ 10 7 6 5 3 [ K Q 9 2 N Declarer only managed to take seven tricks, thus she was ] 5 3 ] K 8 6 4 W E down six for minus 1700 which erased N/S’ accident at the { J { K 5 4 3 other table. That was 16 IMPs to Semerci and a decisive fac- } Q J 7 6 5S } 2 tor as to why they won this match by 17-13 (27-18 IMPs). [4 Unfortunately for Semerci this was not enough to qualify. ]7 Despite the setback on this very board Vriend qualified into the Swiss A. { A Q 10 9 } A K 10 9 8 4 3

West North East South Bertens Kilercioglu Arnolds Araz 1] Pass 2} Pass 2] Pass 3{ Pass 3NT Pass 4} Pass 4{ Pass 6} All Pass

After a completely natural auction (!), where North first gave preference to diamonds then passed Six Clubs, West didn’t want to double the slam, giving N/S a chance to find a better spot. West was probably quite happy to defend un- doubled and when the smoke had cleared the declarer was four down for —400. Kilercioglu/Araz hardly expected this disaster to be a great result for their team, but see what happened at the other table!

West North East South Siriklioglu Maas Semerci Vriend 1] Pass 2} Pass 2] Pass 3{ Pass 3] Pass 4} Pass 4[ Pass 4NT Pass 5[ Pass 6} Pass 6{ Pass 7} Dble All Pass Huub Bertens

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Mixed Teams Swiss - Match of the Day by Patrick Jourdain On the second day of the Mixed Teams 36 had qualified thought before coming to the conclusion that partner must for the “A” Group with 27 to go forward to the knockouts, be doubling for penalties and that she should pass. and 35 were in the repechage with the leading 5 to come Rafal Jagniewski may have given thought to running to Two back into the knockouts. The format was Swiss teams, 5 Clubs, but he gave no sign of it when he also passed. matches of 10 boards. The lead of {3 was ducked round to declarer who led a When your reporter forms a bridge partnership the club. Shenkin popped in with the ace to lead a second dia- other half often soon chooses to leave the country. Barnet mond. Migry ran the suit reducing everyone to six cards. Shenkin, my partner for the 1974 World Pairs Olympiad, West and North kept three spades, dummy only one spade was one of these, leaving Scotland for the USA (Michael with the two top hearts and three clubs. The defence Rosenberg, as one would expect, made the same decision cashed two spades and made another club at the end. 500 - quicker). to Mahaffey who gained 7 IMPs. To recall old times I sought out Barnet’s table for the first Note that a weak notrump by East might well buy the match in the Swiss. His speed of play had improved over contract, and if North protects their side could end in Two the years, with the occasional lapse into old habits. His Spades. partner here reminded me of a problem we had at our On the next deal both Souths opened a Multi Two Dia- local bridge club when gold leaf was very expensive and the monds though Migry’s could only be weak. What would names of winners went on an honours board. To save your choice be on the West cards? money I proposed a handicap giving an advantage to those Board 3. Dealer South. E/W Vul. with names such as Fine or Luck over those called With- [ K Q 9 ington-Smythe. Had it been in force here Migry Zur-Cam- panile-Albu of Israel would have had no chance. ] 10 7 4 The Mahaffey team was playing Poland 1. The first board { 5 4 3 gave the Poles 2 IMPs. The second swing proved more im- } K 6 4 2 portant. Did you think that the weak no-trump runs more [ —N [ A 8 7 6 5 3 2 risk of getting doubled than systems using the Prepared ] K 6 ] Q J W E Club? Check that view here: { A J 8 7 2 { Q 10 6 Board 2. Dealer East. N/S Vul. } A Q 10 7 5 3 S } J [ A Q J 7 4 [ J 10 4 ] J 5 4 ] A 9 8 5 3 2 { 8 4 3 {K 9 }A 5 }9 8 Closed Room [ K 10 9 6 [ 5 3 2 N West North East South ] 10 8 6 ] A K 9 3 W E Jagniewski Shenkin Brewiak Migry ZCA { K J { Q 6 2{ S } J 9 7 2 } K 8 6 3 4NT* Pass 5{ All Pass [8 *Both minors ] Q 7 2 { A 10 9 7 5 2 Open Room } Q 10 4 West North East South Closed Room Mahaffey Gierulski Radin Nosalska West North East South 2{ Jagniewski Shenkin Brewiak Migry ZCA Pass 3] Pass Pass 1} 1{ 3NT* Pass 4{ All Pass 1]* Pass 1[** Pass *Both minors 1NT Dble All Pass Jagniewski’s choice of 4NT led to the sound game of Five *Showing at least four spades Diamonds. A spade was led. Grazyna Brewiak threw a club **Showing three spades from dummy, winning in hand to run the jack of clubs. When that lost and a club came back she ruffed in hand East opened a Polish Club, either a weak notrump, or nat- and took the trump finesse to claim 11 tricks. ural, or a strong hand. South’s overcall and the spade lie al- At the other table Mahaffey’s delayed 3NT was also arti- lowed Shenkin to double 1NT even though he knew his side ficial but allowed the auction to die in 4{. 10 IMPs to had at most half the points. Migry gave the matter some Poland 1.

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Board 4 and 5 were simple games where Mahaffey picked Board 9. Dealer North. E/W Vul. up 3 IMPs in overtricks. [ 8 7 5 On this next deal how would you play Two Hearts as West on the queen of spades lead? ] 10 9 6 3 { A 10 6 5 Board 6. Dealer East. E/W Vul. }A J [ Q J 5 2 [ K 10 2N [ A Q J 4 3 ] Q 10 6 ] A K 5 4 ] Q J 7 W E { A 7 6 { Q 7 3 2 { J 8 } Q 6 3 } Q 4S } 9 8 7 [ 9 8 7N [ A K 6 [9 6 ] A 8 7 5 4 ] 9 3 W E ]8 2 { K 5 3 2 { Q 9 8 4 { K 9 4 S } 8 } A 10 9 2 } K 10 6 5 3 2 [ 10 4 3 ] K J 2 Closed Room {J 10 West North East South } K J 7 5 4 Jagniewski Shenkin Brewiak Migry ZCA Pass Pass 3} The Polish unopposed auction began 1}-1]-1NT and Jag- All Pass niewski then chose somewhat strangely to rebid the hearts (he may have been constrained by system). On the actual spade lead and the favourable lie of both red suits declar- Open Room er can wrap up nine tricks by playing on trumps. Instead de- West North East South clarer tried to ensure some tricks even against bad breaks Mahaffey Gierulski Radin Nosalska by ruffing clubs in hand. Sadly this led to one off when the Pass Pass Pass defence collected four trump tricks instead of two. 5 IMPs 1NT Pass 2] Pass to Mahaffey. 2[ Pass 3NT Pass Board 7 was a further partscore gain for Mahaffey but Jag- 4[ All Pass niewski struck back for Poland here: Board 8. Dealer West. None Vul. [ 10 9 ] A K J 4 2 { A J 10 } 9 6 3 [ A K J 4 2N [ 8 7 5 3 ]8 ]Q 9 6 W E { Q 9 2 { K 8 6 3 } K Q 10 5S } J 4 [Q 6 ] 10 7 5 3 { 7 5 4 } A 8 7 2 Closed Room West North East South Jagniewski Shenkin Brewiak Migry ZCA 1[ 2] 2[ 3] 4[ All Pass This thin game was not reached at the other table but proved unbeatable. On a trump lead declarer drew trumps and set up the clubs. He could then claim, disposing of two diamonds from dummy on the clubs, and conceding only the three aces. The diamond ruff was his tenth trick. 6 IMPs to Poland 1. The penultimate deal provided no swing though one could hardly call it flat: Anna Nosalka

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In the Open Room Jim Mahaffey, in fourth seat, borrowed a point to open a 15-17 notrump, but this led to game with Optical Illusion four top losers for 100 to Poland passing, 3NT might have by Barry Rigal made - might it not? By contrast Migry, sitting South in the Closed Room, opened a third-in-hand Three Clubs and bought the contract. I’m sure that a fair percentage of tables quite sensibly Against Three Clubs West led the ace of hearts on which bid this deal to 3NT — the difficulty of diagnosing the du- East dropped the queen. West now switched to a low plication of club values makes reaching any other game spade. East cashed the ace and queen, followed by the jack quite hard although I suppose reaching any of the three of hearts and a third spade. possible suit games would also be possible. Migry played accurately, ruffing the spade, finessing the jack of clubs, unblocking the ace, ruffing a heart to leave West in sole charge of the suit, and then running the rest At the table I watched this was the auction: of the trumps. On the last West was squeezed in the red suits. Needing to keep the heart guard he was forced to Board 15. Dealer South. N/S Vul. throw diamonds. Jagniewski showed he could see what was coming by making his first discard the smart QUEEN of di- amonds. This gave Migry the losing option of finessing the {10, but she knew what was going on. [ A K 9 5 2 Too late West realised the winning defence was to ex- ]A J punge dummy’s hearts. Once the defence has cashed two { K 10 7 4 spades it does not help East to play a third heart. Declarer }A 6 continues as before returning instead with a spade ruff to reach the same ending. [ 7 6N [ J 10 8 3 Mahaffey held a narrow 3 IMP lead going into the last and ] K 8 7 6 ] 5 4 W E crucial board: { A 3 { Q 9 6 Board 10. Dealer East. All Vul. } 8 7 5 4 2S } J 10 9 3 [A 8 [Q 4 ] A K 2 ] Q 10 9 3 2 { J 8 7 4 { J 8 5 2 } K 9 8 7 }K Q [ K Q 9 6 5 4N [ 3 2 ] Q J 8 5 ] 10 9 7 6 3 West North East South W E { K 5 { Q 9 Willenken Holland Michielsen Brunner } 5S } A 6 3 2 Pass [ J 10 7 Pass 1[ Pass 2] ]4 Pass 2NT (F) Pass 3NT { A 10 6 3 2 All pass } Q J 10 4 Closed Room South led the club jack, and Holland carefully over- West North East South took the club queen with the ace, revealing the posi- Jagniewski Shenkin Brewiak Migry ZCA tion there, but preserving the entry to dummy. The n Pass Pass he played the ace and jack of hearts. Had this held he 1[ Dble Pass 2{ would have crossed to the spade queen and cleared All Pass the hearts, but the defenders actually took the heart king and cleared the clubs. So Holland cashed out his Migry chose a cautious response to the take-out double nine tricks, and had the spade break for overtricks. If with the plan of showing clubs later if West bid on. On the you win trick one in dummy to take the heart finesse, spade king lead she again played with care, winning the ace, you will be well placed if it loses, but if it holds you are and taking two rounds of hearts to discard a spade before not home. The best you can do is shift to spades, but playing ace and another trump. This led to ten tricks. the defenders win the fourth round and clear the At the other table South was in Four Diamonds on the clubs. You now need to guess diamonds to make the same lead. When declarer won the ace of spades and began game. by leading a low trump to the ten she ran into both a club ruff and a spade over-ruff. Three trump losers meant the There was no real swing; Four Spades made ten tricks contract had failed by two tricks. Mahaffey picked up 8 IMPs to win 29-18 or 18-12 in VPs. in the other room.

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Man Bites Tiger by Mark Horton In Round 3 of Group E the French team captained by A spade or heart would be immediately fatal, so North Bernard Payen faced off against the Norwegian side led by discarded the ten of clubs. Declarer played a heart to hand Rune Hauge. This deal contributed to a fine French victory: and exited with the jack of clubs. North could cash the ten of spades, but then had to surrender the last two tricks to Board 26. Dealer East. All Vul. the French captain, +750. [ J 10 4 At the other table East was declarer in 3NT and South ] J 9 5 3 2 led a club, giving declarer no chance. That was 13 IMPs to- {4 wards a 38-16, 22-8 VP win that put Payen into second place. } A Q 10 3 [ 9 8 2N [ Q 7 6 3 ] A K Q 10 8 ] 7 6 W E Hand of a Lifetime { K J 10 { A Q 9 7 by Mark Horton } J 5S } K 6 4 [ A K 5 Take a look at this innocuous looking deal from Round ]4 5 of the Mixed Teams qualifying: { 8 6 5 3 2 Board 16. Dealer West. E/W Vul. } 9 8 7 2 [ K 10 8 Open Room ] Q 7 6 4 West North East South { K 10 7 4 Payen Lustin }J 3 Pass Pass [ —N [ A Q J 9 7 4 1] Pass 1[ Pass ] A 9 5 3 ] J W E 1NT Pass 2NT Pass { A J 8 2 { Q 9 5 3NT Dble All Pass } 10 9 8 6 5S } K Q 4 North knew his opponents had limited values and with [ 6 5 3 2 the heart suit under control made a Tiger double of the ] K 10 8 2 type described by Freddie North and the late Jeremy Flint. {6 3 The only problem with this type of double is that you } A 7 2 have to back it up in the play, and as you will see, declarer took full advantage of a slip by the defence. So far as the bidding is concerned the problem is to North led the jack of spades, covered by the queen and stop in time on the East/West cards. One way is for king and South switched to the four of hearts. Declarer West to resist any temptation to open the bidding, then won with the king and played back a spade. When North respond 1NT to East’s opening bid of One Spade and mistakenly played low South had to win with the ace and pass a rebid of Two Spades. switched to the eight of clubs. North put in the queen and The favourable position in the black suits mean you can declarer won with the king and played four rounds of dia- always make nine tricks in spades, and might make ten if monds. This was the position with North still to discard: South does not lead a diamond at trick one. Why then is this a deal worthy of the epithet Hand of [ 10 a Lifetime? ] J 9 5 Well, if you check your copy of the hand records you {— will see that Deep Finesse does not include any number } A 10 of spades in the table of making contracts! Investigations are under way as to how this has hap- [—N [7 6 pened — my guess is that the program being used to ] A Q 10 8 ] 7 W E create the deals is set up in such a way that DF does {— {— not analyse deals which confound Burn’s law of Total }JS }6 4 Trumps. [5 ]— (For once my guess proved to be accurate. The dealing pro- gram is running a simplified version of DF and does not {8 consider suit contracts with less than seven trumps.) } 9 8 7

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Action Jackson to Championship Diary the rescue! Regular visitors to the Bulletin office will know we by Barry Rigal have a penchant for listening to Test Match Special (cricket for the uniniti- Marion Michielesen showed me this hand, demonstrat- ated). Yesterday during ing that when Jan Jansma tells you ‘I always open in third the morning session seat non-vulnerable against vulnerable’ he means it. one of the commenta- tors remarked that it Board 2. Dealer East. N/S Vul. was remarkably quiet. [ A K Q J 7 4 His colleague pointed ]Q 5 out that the noise level {10 goes up as the alcohol } K Q 5 3 intake takes effect. [ 9 5 3 2 [ 10 ‘A bit like working in N the Bulletin Room ] 9 4 2 ] K J 8 W E then’ said Tacchi. { J 9 3 2 { A K 8 4 } 9 4S } 10 8 7 6 2 PO Sundelin’s rather good inferential problem, [8 6 which appeared in yesterday’s Bulletin was greeted ] A 10 7 6 3 by an outpouring of enthusiasm. You will find the so- { Q 7 6 5 lution and name of the winner in this issue. }A J We leave no stone unturned in our search for The Bulletin Room was divided as to how to open the items that might entertain you, hours being spent West cards. Given that passing was not an option, the surfing some of the lesser known sites on the Inter- popular choices were opening One Diamond and One net. Heart (though maverick choices such as Two Clubs and Herman suggested we keep an eye out for relevant Two Hearts were mentioned). national holidays and related events. We have al- ready missed congratulating Icelanders on yester- This was the auction from Jansma’s table: day’s Þjóðhátíðardagurinn (Criss-cross ruffing West North East South squeeze day in Iceland?). Congratulations would not Pass Pass perhaps be in order if we mention that it was also 1{ 4[ 5{ Dble the day in 1462 (notice it’s a bridge distribution!) All Pass when Romania’s notorious Vlad the Impaler (Dracu- la) staged a night attack on the Ottoman army of According to Jansma, the force of the ‘silent’ double Mehmed II. was enough virtually to blow him out of his seat. Jansma received the lead of two top spades. He ruffed low and Today sees the 185th anniversary of the US de- advanced a confident ten of clubs. South took the ace claring war on the UK and the 40th anniversary of and played the club jack, ducked by North after some Jimi Hendrix' burning his guitar at Monterey. thought. Now what was South to do? After some Sir Paul McCartney celebrates his 65th birthday — thought she played ace and another heart. Jansma won nothing to sing about there. in dummy, cashed the diamond ace and ruffed a club low, crossed to the remaining top heart and ruffed another club. Finally he led a spade and ruffed with dummy’s king of trumps, then led the last club to elope with his dia- mond jack. Down three doubled for —500, and your everyday pick-up of 4 IMPs against the game from the other room. Brian Senior also opened the West hand; his choice was a weak 2{. Sandra Penfold raised to Five Diamonds over North’s Four Spade call, and against Five Diamonds dou- bled the defenders led a top spade and shifted to the ten of trumps. That looks a better start, but South also shift- ed to ace and another heart at some point, so he too es- caped for three down and a small gain.

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Preempters galore Wishful thinking solution What is your bid as North, third in hand, at favourable vulnerability, after two passes? The winning solver of yesterday’s problem — Douglas Doub, USA - can look forward to a five-minute entertainment by our Editor. Board 19. Dealer South. E/W Vul. [7 4 West to make Six Spades. What are the opposing ] 7 6 4 3 hands? { A 10 8 4 3 2 }7 [ A K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 2 [ — ] — ] A K 6 5 4 3 2 [ Q 9 6N [ A 10 5 3 ] K 10 8 ] A Q 9 5 { — { A K 5 4 3 2 W E { K Q J 9 7 { 5 }4 2 }— S } 10 2 } A Q J 9 Remember the conditions? Only one card beats the [ K J 8 2 contract, all other leads result in twelve tricks, and ]J 2 South has the six of diamonds. {6 North can have at most one club or else there would } K 8 6 5 4 3 be more than one lead to set the slam. If North’s club is the ace, and he has no spade, he must have twelve red cards. He could then lead a heart which West North East South South ruffs. West overruffs, and a club to North would Pass be followed by another heart ruff. One down. Should West draw South’s trump before playing a club North Pass 3{ Dble All Pass discards his club ace. Sitting behind North ( Marcin Lesniewski of Poland) I If North has the club ace and one or two spades then mentally agreed with his choice of opening bid as he put declarer can make all the tricks on some red leads. Three Diamonds on the tray). So North doesn’t have a club. And he doesn’t have two spades as red leads again result in an overtrick. 1100 later after a trump lead I changed my mind. Who If North has one spade... on earth would open Three Diamonds on that garbage…. [3 ] Q J 10 9 8 7 Let’s find out: { Q J 10 9 8 7 }— I asked Billy Eisenberg, World Champion and more, [ A K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 2 [ — “An automatic Three Diamonds” he stated. A string of N ] — ] A K 6 5 4 3 2 (male) experts more or less unanimously supported W E Billy’s view. { — { A K 5 4 3 2 }4 2 S }— In the records we find that North stayed out of trou- [4 ble in 47 cases out of 70 (most likely saved by many ]— Wests opening One Diamond). But some didn’t pay {6 the full price. Seven times 500 meant a three or four } A K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 3 imp win, but eight 800s, seven 1100s, and once a devas- tating 1400 after a small spade lead were costly! West will discard a club on a diamond lead, and later lose his other club. I’ll ask Billy again. He will overruff a heart lead to dummy’s ace, ruffed by South, then give North a spade trick as a stepping stone to the red tricks in dummy. A lead of the spade three will beat the slam. Had North been dealt the spade four a trump lead would create no problem. It would be allowed to hold the trick.