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Fortnight Nears the End
World Bridge Series Championship Philadelphia Pennsylvania, USA 1st to 16th October D B 2010 aily ulletin O FFICIAL S PONSOR 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 Issue No. 14 Friday, 15 October 2010 FORTNIGHT NEARS THE END These are the hard-working staff members who produce all the deals — literally thousands — for the championships Players at the World Bridge Series Championships have been In the World Junior Championship, Israel and France will start at it for nearly two weeks with only one full day left. Those play today for the Ortiz-Patino Trophy, and in the World Young- who have played every day deserve credit for their stamina. sters Championship, it will be England versus Poland for the Consider the players who started on opening day of the Damiani Cup. 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. Contents With three sessions to go, the Open leaders, drop-ins from the Rosenblum, are Fulvio Fantoni and Claudio Nunes. In the World Bridge Series Results . .3-5 Women’s Pairs, another pair of drop-ins, Carla Arnolds and For Those Who Like Action . .6 Bep Vriend are in front. The IMP Pairs leaders are Joao-Paulo Campos and Miguel Vil- Sting in the Tail . .10 las-Boas. ACBL President Rich DeMartino and Patrick McDe- Interview with José Damiani . .18 vitt are in the lead in the Hiron Trophy Senior Pairs. -
Convention Card
DEFENSIVE AND COMPETITIVE BIDDING LEADS AND SIGNALS WBF Convention Card OVERCALLS (Style, Responses, ½ Level, Reopening) OPENING LEADS AND SIGNALS Style: Normal Lead In Partners’ suit Category: Green Responses: 2NT after 1M is inv+ with 4crd M; new suit F; Suit 3rd and low, standard from Same, KJT->T NBO (Country): the Netherlands cuebid always fit; honors NT Attitude 3rd and low, KJT->T Event: All Reopening: Light Subseq 2/4 through declarer (only if suit not played) Players: Meike Wortel – Marion Michielsen Otherwise 3/5 1NT OVERCALL (2nd /4th Live; Responses, Reopening) Other: K from AK against 5+ level (then count) 2nd position: 15-18 bal. SYSTEM SUMMARY Responses: system on L E A D S 2 over 1 GF Lead vs. Suit vs. NT GENERAL APPROACH AND STYLE: 4th position: 11-14 bal. (11-16 after 1M) Ace A(Kxx) A(Kxx) 1♥/♠ 5+, 1♦ 4+, 1♣ 2+ Responses: system on (11-16: rangecheck stayman 2-lv 11-12; King K(Qx) AK K(Qxx) AKJT(x) Michael Cuebid; Unusual NT; 2N 13-14 (3C asks); 3-lv 15-16 3N: 15-16 both M Queen Q(Jxx) (A)Q(Jxx) KQT9(x) Multi-Landy after NT JUMP OVERCALLS (Style, Responses, Unusual NT) Jack (K)J(Txx) (A/K)J(Txx) 1NT opening: non vul: 14-16 vul: 15-17 Style: Weak suit jumps 10 T(9xx)/HT9 T(9xx)/HT9(x) 9 9x HT9 Responses: Natural High x Xx xxxx Unusual notrump: (1m) 2N: om+♥ (1M) 2N: OM+♦ Low x xxx in 3rd seat: preempts wide-ranged Reopening: Suit: Intermediate; 2NT: 18-19 HCP SIGNALS IN ORDER OF PRIORITY SPECIAL BIDS THAT MAY REQUIRE DEFENCE Partner’s Lead Declarer’s Lead Discarding Transfers on the 1 and 2 level if you overcall our 1m opening DIRECT and JUMP CUE BIDS (Style, Resp., Reopening) Suit:1ST low/high: enc low/high: even low: enc i.e. -
Bulletin 14.Indd
41st WORLD BRIDGE TEAMS CHAMPIONSHIPS 41st Bermuda Bowl - 19th Venice Cup - 7th dOrsi Trophy - 9th Transnational Open Teams Coordinator: Jean-Paul Meyer Editor: Brent Manley Co-Editors: Mark Horton, Jos Jacobs, Micke DAILY Melander, Brian Senior, Jan van Cleeff Lay out Editor: Ron Tacchi BULLETIN Photographer: Elisabeth van Ettinger Issue No. 14 Sunday, 29th September 2013 Bocchi’s Bermuda Birthday Italy, represented by Norberto Bocchi (what a way to celebrate his birthday) Lorenzo Lauria, Agustin Madala, Alfredo Versace, Giorgio Duboin, Antonio Sementa, Gianni Medugno npc, Giuseppe Failla coach won the Bermuda Bowl for the 15th time, defeating Monaco’s Fulvio Fantoni, Geir Helgemo, Tor Helness, Franck Multon, Claudio Nunes, Pierre Zimmermann, Jean Charles Allavena npc, Krzysztof Martens coach in a one sided fi nal. Poland’s Cesary Balicki, Krzysztof Buras, Krzysztof Jassem, Marcin Mazurkie- wicz, Grzegorz Narkiewicz, Adam Zmudzinski, Piotr Walczak npc, Marek Wojcicki coach took bronze. In a match that kept the worldwide audience on the edge of their seats it was USA2’s Hjordis Eythorsdottir, Jill Levin, Jill Meyers, Janice Seamon-Molson, Jenny Wolpert, Migry Zur-Campanile, Sue Picus npc who won the Venice Cup from England’s Sally Brock, Fiona Brown, Heather Dhondy, Nevena Senior, Nicola Smith, Susan Stockdale, Jeremy Dhondy npc, David Burn coach Th e Netherlands’, Carla Arnolds, Marion Michielsen, Jet Pasman, Anneke Simons, Wietske van Zwol, Meike Wortel, Alex van Reenen npc, Hans Kelder coach fi nished third. Germany ‘s Michael Elinescu, Ulrich Kratz, Reiner Marsal, Bernhard Sträter, Ulrich Wenning, Entscho Wladow, Kareen Schroeder npc, Karin Wenning coach won the d’Orsi Senior Trophy after a thrilling fi nal against USA2’s Roger Bates, Garey Hayden, Marc Jacobus, Carolyn Lynch, Mike Passell, Eddie Wold, Donna Compton npc. -
Daily Bulletin
Daily Bulletin Editor: Mark Horton / Co-Ordinator : Jean-Paul Meyer / Journalists: David Bird, John Carruthers, Jos Jacob,b, Fernando Lema, Brent Manley, Micke Melander, Barry Rigal, Ram Soffer, Ron Tacchi / Lay-out Editor : Francescacesc Canali Photographer : Arianna Testa THURSDAY, JUNE 15 2017 THE FAR PAVILIONS ISSUESS No 6 CLICK TO NAVIGATE University Bridge p. 2 Roll of Honour p. 3 A view of the Bridge p. 3 Mixed Teams QF p. 4 Mixed Teams Final p. 8 The Story that Disappeared p. 12 An Unsuccessful Escape p. 14 Optimum Est - Fantasy Bridge p. 15 The magnificent pavilions that house the bookstall and the playing room. Pairs? What Pairs? p. 16 After two days of qualifying we know the identity of the 52 pairs that will contest the Mixed Pairs SF A p. 17 final of the European Mixed Pairs Championship. Russia's domination continued as Victoria Gromova & Andrei Gromov topped the semi final table. They were Combinations p. 20 followed by Véronique & Thomas Bessis and Sabine Auken & Roy Welland. If you want to know how tough this event is just ask the three world champions who La Pagina Italiana p. 21 had to fight their way into the final by finishing in the top six in semi final B. Masterpoints Race p. 22 Another event starts today, a two day pairs event for the EBL Cup. Results p. 23 Important Information for the Participants National Railway Strike 15th and 16th June 2017. From 21:00 on Thursday 15 June until 21:00 on Friday 16 June 2017, a national strike of the staff of the Italian Railway Group (Trenitalia) will take place. -
4 Daily Bulletin
Monday, July 21, 2008 Volume 80, Number 4 Daily Bulletin 80th Summer North American Bridge Championships Editors: Brent Manley and Dave Smith Districts 8, 9, 23 and 24 take GNT titles District 9 repeats in GNT Championship Flight The District 9 team captained by Mike Becker led from start to finish in scoring a second straight win in the Grand National Teams, Championship Flight, knocking off Jan Jansma and Ricco Van Preeijen. the District 25 squad led by Frank Merblum 125-74. Dutch duo take LM Pairs Continued on page 5 Two players from the Netherlands who agreed to play five minutes before game time saved their Grand National Teams, Championship Continued on page 21 Flight, winners: front, David Berkowitz, Eric Rodwell, Mike Becker; rear, Larry Cohen, Jeff Meckstroth, Warren Spector. District 24 wins GNT Flight A The District 24 team captained by James Scott surged ahead in the second quarter of their match with a team from Ohio and went on to a 125-74 victory in the Grand National Teams, Flight A. The winners are Scott, Wilton CT; Harry Apfel, John Ramos and Kelley Hwang, New York City; Valentin Carciu, Steve Johnson and Mark Teaford. Continued on page 5 Tops in the Grand National Teams, Southern California pair Flight A: front, Valentin Carciu, John Ramos, James Scott; rear, Sorin claim Bruce LM Pleacoff, Kelley Hwang, Harry Apfel. Steve Johnson and Mark Teaford nearly didn’t make it out of the first day’s qualifying sessions. District 23 wins GNT Continued on page 21 Flight B District 23 won a tight match in the Flight B Grand National Teams. -
7Th EUROPEAN OPEN BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS Tromsø, Norway
[O,<967,(567,5 )90+.,*/(47065:/07: Daily Bulletin Tromsø 27th June-11th July Editor: Mark Horton Co-Editor: Jos Jacobs Lay-out Editor & Photographer: Francesca Canali Journalists: Snorre Aalberg, David Bird, John Carruthers, Patrick Jourdain, Fernando Lema, Micke Melander, Barry Rigal, Ram Soffer, Ron Tacchi THE WHITE HOUSE RULES WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 2015 12 °C Issue No. 4 CONTENTS CLICK TO NAVIGATE Mixed teams, runners up photos, p. 2 Inference or Hypothesis Mark Horton, p. 3 A brace of Grand Slams Barry Rigal, p. 4 Prince Henrik’s Prize MMIXEDI X E D TTEAMSE A M S WINNERSW I N N E R S p. 5 Team White House - Koos Vrieze (President NBB), Meike Wortel, Small is beautiful Jacco Hop, Christina Lund Madsen, Ton Bakkeren A. Roth & F. Lema, p. 6 In a final where most of the significant action took place in the first Caption contest session it was the transnational White House team that assumes the p. 7 mantle of European Mixed Teams Champions. Ton Bakkeren and Lillebaluba vs A J Diamonds I Meike Wortel were winning their second titles (and their third medals) Barry Rigal, p. 8 in the Open Championships. Lillebaluba vs A J Diamonds II Sylvie Willard’s bronze medal was her eighth medal in the Open Ram Soffer, p. 12 Championships, a new record. Philippe Cronier’s bronze makes him the first man to have secured five medals (the same number that his Zimmermann vs Casino Floor Ron Tacchi, p. 16 wife has!). Christina’s action double [O,<967,(567,5,5 )90+.,*/(47065:/07:/07: Daily Bulletin Tromsø A. -
Bernard Magee's Acol Bidding Quiz
Number One Hundred and Fifty June 2015 Bernard Magee’s Acol Bidding Quiz BRIDGEYou are West in the auctions below, playing ‘Standard Acol’ with a weak no-trump (12-14 points) and 4-card majors. 1. Dealer West. Love All. 4. Dealer East. Game All. 7. Dealer North. E/W Game. 10. Dealer East. Love All. ♠ A K 7 6 4 3 2 ♠ 7 6 ♠ A 8 7 ♠ K Q 10 4 3 ♥ 6 N ♥ K 10 3 N ♥ 7 6 5 4 N ♥ 7 6 N W E ♦ K 2 W E ♦ J 5 4 ♦ Q 10 8 6 W E ♦ 5 4 W E S ♣ 7 6 5 S ♣ A Q 7 6 3 ♣ 4 2 S ♣ Q J 10 7 S West North East South West North East South West North East South West North East South ? 1♠ 1NT 1NT Dbl 2♦ 1♥ Pass ? ? 1♠ Pass 1NT Pass ? 2. Dealer East. E/W Game. 5. Dealer East. Game All. 8. Dealer West. E/W Game. 11. Dealer East. Love All. ♠ Q J 3 ♠ 7 6 ♠ A 8 5 3 ♠ 9 8 2 ♥ 7 N ♥ K 10 3 N ♥ A 9 8 7 N ♥ Q J 10 N W E W E W E W E ♦ A K 8 7 6 5 4 ♦ 5 4 ♦ K 6 4 ♦ 8 3 S S S S ♣ A 8 ♣ Q J 7 6 4 3 ♣ A 2 ♣ A 9 6 4 3 West North East South West North East South West North East South West North East South 3♠ Pass 1♠ 1NT 1♥ 1♠ Pass Pass 1♣ Pass ? ? ? 2♣ Pass 2♦ Pass ? 3. -
Saturday, 4/18 Bulletin
Volume 1, Issue 8 April 18, 2015 USBF President Results at the Half... Howie Weinstein USBF Vice President Cheri Bjerkan USBF Secretary & COO Jan Martel TEAM TOTAL 1-15 16-30 31-45 46-60 61-75 USBF CFO Stan Subeck 2 Goldberg 116 30 13 46 27 Director - WUSBC Bernie Gorkin Operations Manager 3 Moss 109 19 42 21 27 Shannon Cappelletti Appeals Administrators Robb Gordon Appeals Committee: Allan Falk The Past Comes Alive Doug Doub Bart Bramley Dutch players Frank van Wezel and Hans van de Konijnenberg Bruce Rogoff both collect books, magazines and Daily Bulletins about Josh Parker bridge. They especially enjoy reading Daily Bulletins from the Danny Sprung pre-internet era because these bulletins are a treasure trove of Peggy Kaplan wonderful photographs, marvellous sketches, splendid deals, Adam Wildavsky and tremendous stories and anecdotes. Howie Weinstein Ron Gerard Steve Robinson Frank and Hans decided that this material should be at the Tom Carmichael disposal of all bridge players. At the same time, they want to save the history of bridge from oblivion. Therefore they VuGraph Organizers launched a free website www.bridgedailybulletins.nl. On this Shannon Cappelletti S BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS site you can find thousands of scanned bulletins, both from Bulletin Editor the digital era and before. They posted WBF, EBL and ACBL Suzi Subeck championship bulletins, as well as many from miscellaneous tournaments around the world. Photographer Peg Kaplan Local Hospitality Chairs And if you have bulletins that they are missing, please contact Barbara -
A Great Day Out
Editor: Brian Senior • Co-Editor: Ron Klinger Bulletin 7 Layout-Editor: George Georgopoulos Sunday, 14 August 2005 A GREAT DAY OUT The Sydney Opera House as seen from the dinner cruise ship The weather was just perfect for other local landmarks.All in all, one of the yesterday's outing, allowing everyone to best rest days of recent youth champ- have a great time. After leaving the hotel ionships. around lunchtime the first stop was at the Those who did not go on the dinner Koala Park, where there was time to relax cruise would have been impressed with the for a while before enjoying the barbecue organisation and atmosphere surrounding lunch. the rugby union international in the Telstra There was plenty of time after lunch to Stadium, just next to the hotel. Unlike soc- explore the park and, as well as seeing the cer crowds in many parts of the word, the many different species of Australian Australian and New Zealand fans mixed animals, including getting up close enough together happily with no hint of trouble to cuddle koalas, wallabies and even wom- and a good time was had by all — even if bats, there was an exhibition of sheep- the result (a 30-13 win for New Zealand) shearing. Anyone who had never seen an would not have pleased the majority of the expert sheep-shearer at work would have crowd. been amazed at the speed and skill dis- played. VUGRAPH The evening featured a dinner cruise with MATCHES an excellent menu of well-prepared local Poland - Australia 10.00 food. -
Polish Girls on Top
Bulletin 2 Friday, 13 July 2007 POLISH GIRLS ON TOP TEAM PHOTOGRAPHS Today is the turn of the following teams to have their photographs taken for the EBL database. Would the captains please ensure that all players of the team plus the npc are present outside the front door of the Palace as follows: Girls Teams Latvia 13.00 Netherlands 13.00 Norway 13.00 England 13.00 Poland 17.00 Sweden 17.00 Turkey 17.00 Palazzo del Turismo, Jesolo Maria Ploumbi - EBL Photographer Norway produced the result of the day in the Juniors when they defeat- ed defending champions, Poland, 22-8 in Round 2. The Norwegians fol- lowed that up with a 25-2 demolition of Czech Republic and led after VUGRAPH three rounds by 13 VPs. Norway have 71 VPs, ahead of Latvia on 58, MATCHES Netherlands and Sweden with 54.5 and Italy 53. The Polish Girls had a huge day. They began by getting revenge for their Junior team, crushing Norway 25-3, and followed up with 25-4 against Den- Croatia - Latvia (Juniors) 10.00 mark and 25-5 over England, giving a perfect 75 VPs out of a possible 75 Estonia - Poland (Girls) 14.00 on the day. Poland lead after four rounds with 95.5 VPs, already well ahead Sweden - Denmark (Juniors) 17.30 of Germany on 77, Italy on 71 and Netherlands on 68. 21st EUROPEAN YOUTH TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Jesolo, Italy JUNIOR TEAMS TODAY’S RESULTS PROGRAM ROUND 2 ROUND 4 Match IMP’s VP’s 1 TURKEY GREECE 1 SLOVAKIA GREECE 45 - 32 18 - 12 2 CROATIA LATVIA 2 SWEDEN CROATIA 50 - 57 14 - 16 3 SLOVAKIA SCOTLAND 3 ROMANIA TURKEY 32 - 91 4 - 25 4 SWEDEN AUSTRIA 4 CZECH REPUBLIC -
All to Play For
HUAI’AN, JIANGSU PROVINCE, CHINA Á 9TH TO 15TH DECEMBER BRIDGE BULLETIN WED 13 DEC Editors: Mark Horton & Brian Senior • Layout Editor & Photos: Francesca Canali ISSUE No 4 ALL TO PLAY FOR Gianarrigo Rona accompanies Madam Chen Zelan, IMSA President, around the bridge venue CONTENTS (CLICKABLE) Half-way through the Women’s Pairs there is all to play for with nobody having a significant lead and nobody having been dropped off the bottom of the pack. The Bidding Quiz p. 2 leaders are Disa Eythorsdottir and Kerri Sanborn of USA, tied with China’s Nan Questions & Answers p. 2 Wang and Yan Huang on 53.78 %. Wenfei Wang and Qi Shen, also of China, lie Yesterday’s Bidding Quiz p. 3 third, just three matchpoints behind on 53.18 %. Countdown p. 4 The Open event is much more stretched out with Cedric Lorenzini and Thomas Open Teams Final, Round 3 p. 8 Bessis of France tied on 57/50% with China’s Lixin Yang and Jianming Dai, with It happened one night p. 12 Jerome Rombaut and Vanessa Rees, also of France, in third. Top to bottom in the Open is a 65 MP spread, against only 40 in the Women’s event. Open Pairs – Session 1 p. 15 Results p. 21 VIDEO CORNER SCHEDULE PAIRS 10.30 Session 3 16.30 Session 4 OPENING CEREMONY RECAP DAY 2 20.00 Prize Giving Watch on Youtube Watch on Youtube Watch on Youku Watch on Youku 2017 IMSA Elite Mind Games - Huai’an, December 9th -17th BIDDING QUIZ! Mithcell, E/W Vul. -
Offense to Defense Ratio (ODR) by Neil H
Evaluating Your Offense to Defense Ratio (ODR) By Neil H. Timm Duplicate Match-point Bridge is all about bidding in competition and how many tricks each side can take. However, you do not want to outbid the opponents if the penalty you earn is more than the value of the contract they would have earned. If you can make eight tricks in hearts and they can make eight tricks in spades, and they bid 2♠, then you should bid 3♥ if you know with some certainty that you can expect to go down by at most ONE trick since to score of -50 or -100 is better than the 110 that their 2♠ contract would produce, bid to the 3-level; since any positive difference (even 10 points) to the majority of the field is decisive in terms of match points. Even two tricks down for a score of -100 is fine if not vulnerable; but if vulnerable a score of -200 is clearly bad so you may not want to outbid them when vulnerable if you were to get doubled. The challenge is to accurately evaluate how many tricks you and the opponents can take. Remember that the aim of competitive bidding in regular match-point pairs is not to bid what you can make. Rather you are striving for the best possible score on the board, the par score, even if that means bidding to go down - provided it scores better than allowing the opponents to make their contract. Therein lies the rub since most of the methods used do evaluate the number of tricks do not guarantee success because “success” depends upon high-card strength, shape, the distribution of HCP values, and suit quality.