The British Bridge World SUCCESSOR TO THE CONTRACf BRIDGE JOURNAL: MEDIUM FOR ENGLISH BRIDGE UNION NEWS Edited by TERENCE REESE VOLUME 12 July 1961 NUMBER 1 Editorial Board BERNARD WESTALL (CHAIRMAN) GEOFFREY L. BUTLER HUBERT PHILLIPS TERENCE REESE KENNETH KONSTAM ADVERTISING All enquiries should be addressed to the ADVERTISING MANAGER THOMAS DE LA RUE & CO. LTD., ' · · 92 Middlesex Street, E.l - - All other correspondence, including Subscriptions, to the Publishers: Moore Batley Ltd., 35 Dover Street, London, W.1 Hyde Park 3601-2 Annual Subscription 30/- The British Bridge World is published Oil the 15th of each month hltl~JJ,d Gild prlnttd on bthalf of the proprietors, Thomas De La Rue & Co. Ltd., by Moore . ~at ley Ltd. 35 Dover Street, London, W.l. 3 July, 1961 Contents Page Editorial 5-6 "Champio11ship News" 7 The Open Trials, Part 1, by Harold Franklin 8-12 World Championship Diary, Part 3 12- 19 Subscription Forn1 .. 19 Magic Moments, by A. Hutchinson .. 20-22 London and the South, by Alan Hiron .. 24-27 Book Review: Bridge, by Alan Truscott .. .. 27 Distributional Probabilities, by A. L. Oliver . 28-30 One Hundred Up: Repeat of June Problems 31 You Say ... .. 32-34 One Hundred Up: July Problems . 34-35 Directory of E.B.U. Clubs .. 36-37 Result of June Competition 37 One Hundred Up: Answers to June Problems 38-46 E.B.U. M:aster Points Register 41 Diary of "Gvents 48 4 Editorial \.. EQUAL CHANCES pations, I make no bones of the first three in the trials for f~ct th~t I find. t~~se long cha~­ Torquay were Truscott and Pri­ pwnshtps an mqreasing strairi\ day, Rose and Gardener, Kon­ Before I have to 'retire from old stam and Rodrigue. In a year age I hope that the E.B.L. will where, on the face of it, neither accept the idea of two divisions Italy nor France will be quite so for the championship, with 64- strong as usual, this team must board matches played in quarters. have as good a chance as any in the field. GRAND NATIONAL There can be little doubt that After enormous ups and downs, the best three pairs emerged from due to the new scoring system, the trial. Gardener and Rose Mrs. Hiron and Mrs. Durran were not extended in this field, won the ladies trials, followed by Truscott and Priday played most the studious combination of Miss capably throughout, and Konstam Shanahan and Mrs. Juan. These and Rodrigue fought back nobly two- pairs join Mrs. Markus and after an 8-0 reverse at the hands Mrs. Gordon to form an excellent of Collings and Crown, who defence of the ladies' title. finished fifth. Nunes and Rock­ felt seemed likely to be third until COMPRESSED the last day, but at the finish their My reference in the January partnership had a somewhat editorial to the new scale of IMP frayed appearance. misled some county secretaries . into assuming that the s9ile would LESS EXACTING be adopted for Britain as soon as Schapiro and I informed the present competitions were over. selectors early during the trial That is not the case. The E.B.U. that we would not be playing. I has rejected the scale, but the had said from the first that if E.B.L., despite opposition from opportunities for broadcasts and Britain, has adopted it for Tor­ other publicity arose I would quay. According to the bulletin ~vant to follow them up and that of the European Press Association IS h ' w at has happened. I hope to there is also to be a new scale of contribut. e a1 so to the Bndgerama. victory points. A difference of sesstons A · part from those occu- 0-3 will be scored as 3-3, of 4-10 5 as 4-2, of 11-20 as 5-1, of 21 as of hotels etc. which come under 6-0. these Ia ws, and . therefore it has Those differences are extra- never been posstble for them to ordinarily narrow. A difference take part in our national events.'' of 21 in the new scale equals SWISS TOURNAMENT about 12 in the old. That was a The new calendar is published narrow enough victory over 40 in this month's Diary of Events. boards and one would expect it Readers will note that in place of to be 4-2, not 6-0. The effect of the usual Northern Cqngress there the change seems to b~ to dfs­ will be a "Spring Foursomes tinguish between small and very Weekend" at Eastbourne from small wins or losses. March 9- 12. This will be an - SEPARATE TABLES event on the repechage principle for which 64 teams can be There are probably many bridge accepted. journalists unaware that they can join the European Bridge Press BOMBE SURPRISE Association for an annual sub­ Of the two big international scription (hollow laugh from the tournaments in France, Juan-Les­ treasurer) of £2. This should be Pins had the better of the weather sent to Eric Jannersten, Enskede, this year, but it was a tribute to Sweden. The monthly bulletin Mons. Ullman's energetic pub­ contains may interesting items. licity that 240 pairs turned up at In May the South African Vichy for a two-session event correspondent wrote: · despite cold, rain, and plastic "It may be of interest to bombs here and there in France. readers abroad to know that the French pairs carried off the top S.A. Federation is composed of prizes at both tournaments. equal representation from the SIDNEY KASTELL European and non-European Mr. S. C. Kastell, who died sections. The non-Europeans recently, was one of the most (mostly Indians) have a very popular and least self-seeking large number of players and have figures in the game. He was for entered 22 teams for their annual leag-ue event. Unfortunately the many years Chairman of the Middlesex C.B.A. and a delegate Liquor Licensing Laws in this country do not permit non­ to the E.B.U. Europeans to attend functions HEARD AT THE LADIES TRIAL. ,, which are held on the premises "Rene beat Pat by an inmngs. 6 The European Championship Torquay, September 24 to October 5 ''CHAMPIONSHIP NEWSII ON YOUR BREAKFAST TABLE A daily bulletin giving the latest results and tables in the Open and Ladies' Championships, together with all the news and reports of outstanding hands, will be despatched in the early hours each morning to 'reach you at the latest by first post the next day. 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Address .......................................................................... .. .. .' ................................... ·········································································· · 7 The Open Trials PART 1 by HAROLD FRANKLIN After the first week-end of the international match points (on the trials the scores were: new scale) by comparing their V.P. score with the mean. 1. Rose and Gardener 23 The first round brought a 1. Dr. Rockfelt and Nunes 23 meeting of the favourites, Rose 3. Truscott and Priday 21 · and Gardener and Konstam and 4. Konstam and Rodrigue 18 Rodrigue. Konstam and Rod­ 5. Dr. Lee and )3ooker 16 rigue seemed to have a slight edge, 6. Swinnerton-Dyer and but the points were in fact Dormer 15 divided 4-4. Rose took the 7. Fox and Smerdon 14 fullest advantage of a slip in 8. Collings and Crown 12 defence to score heavily on this 9. North and Pugh 10 board: 10. Silverstone and Hiron 8 North dealer Inasmuch as the four best Love all fancied pairs are occupying the NoRTH four leadmg. places, one can say' • 8 53 that the results have followed \? J 5 form. There have, however, been 0 Q5 considerable surprises in the indi­ + AI<Q965 vidual matches which have pro­ WEST EAST duced the score. + AQ94 + K 10 7 2 Ten pairs in all are taking part, \?Q642 \? K 7 each pair playing a match of 32 06 0 J 10 8 7 4 3 boards against each of the other + J 10 8 3 + 4 pairs. To calculate the results an SouTH average score is .arrived at on each • J 6 board, by means of three ~esults, \?A 10 9 8 3 excluding the best and worst on 0 AK92 each board. Players then score + 7 2 8 souTH WEST NoRTH EAST were well in the game against 14- 10 Gardener and Rose and could l\1 No 2+ No feel disappointed to take only JNT No . No No two points. But not so dis­ Rodrigue led his singleton dia- appointed as one East-West pair mond and Rose won in hand, on this hand: retaining dummy's entry. He continued with two high clubs, on West dealer the second of ·which Konstam Game all unwisely discarded the 2 of spades. NORTH Rose then led a low club, before • 9 8 3 the defence could learn too much, \?Q873 and this time Konstam discarded 0 8 7 54 a diamond. Rodrigue switched + 16 to a low heart and the King WEST EAST forced the Ace.