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AMERICAN DOUBLE Friday, 16 December 2011 Editor: Brian Senior • Lay Out Editor: Fotis Skoularikis Issue No. 7 AMERICAN DOUBLE Friday, 16 December 2011 USA took both Individual gold medals at the 2011 Sport Accord World Mind Games in Beijing. In the Men, Chris Willenken had a final session-long battle with China’s Jie Li before eventually coming out on top by 8 MPs on a top of 10. Li just held on to the silver medal as the fast finishing Brad Moss (USA) closed to just 1 MP behind him to claim the bronze. In the Women’s event, Janice Seamon-Molson led for much of the final session and held on to win by 6 MPs from Nicola Smith (GB), with Molson’s regular partner, Tobi Sokolow taking the bronze. And so the first Sport Accord Mind Games come to a close. With many media outlets showing coverage, the Games will have helped to boost the profile of bridge (and the other four sports involved) around the world. Contents Tournament Results . .2 Men’s Individual — Session Two . .3 Men’s Individual — Final Session . .5 TV Broadcast Distribution . .8 SPORTACCORD WORLD MIND GAMES Beijing, China Men Series SESSION 3 FINAL STANDINGS 1 MOSS Brad 64.76 1 WILLENKEN Chris 56.52 2 BERKOWITZ David 60.48 2 LI Jie 55.36 3 VERHEES JR Louk 58.57 3 MOSS Brad 55.22 4 WILLENKEN Chris 58.10 4 SONTAG Alan 53.91 5 GITELMAN Fred 56.67 - RASMUSSEN Arild 53.91 6 DRIJVER Bas 54.76 6 ROSENBERG Michael 52.61 7 SONTAG Alan 52.38 7 GITELMAN Fred 52.46 8 GROETHEIM Glenn 51.90 - BERKOWITZ David 52.46 - MULLER Bauke 51.90 9 BRINK Sjoert 51.30 - RASMUSSEN Arild 51.90 10 MULLER Bauke 51.16 11 WIJS Simon de 51.43 11 SHI Miao 50.72 12 LI Jie 50.95 12 WIJS Simon de 50.00 13 MALINOWSKI Artur 50.48 13 MALINOWSKI Artur 49.71 14 HOFTANISKA Thor Erik 48.57 14 VERHEES JR Louk 49.57 15 HOU Xu 47.14 15 TUNDAL Ulf Haakon 49.42 - BRINK Sjoert 47.14 16 SHI Haojun 49.13 17 LIAN Ruoyang 46.19 17 HOFTANISKA Thor Erik 47.68 18 LIU Jing 44.76 18 GROETHEIM Glenn 46.96 - PROOIJEN Ricco van 44.76 19 LIAN Ruoyang 46.81 - ROSENBERG Michael 44.76 20 LIU Jing 46.23 21 CHARLSEN Thomas 41.43 21 DRIJVER Bas 45.51 22 SHI Miao 40.48 22 CHARLSEN Thomas 45.22 - TUNDAL Ulf Haakon 40.48 23 HOU Xu 45.07 24 SHI Haojun 40.00 24 PROOIJEN Ricco van 43.04 WOMen Series SESSION 3 FINAL STANDINGS 1 SOKOLOW Tobi 59.52 1 SEAMON-MOLSON Janice 56.38 2 SUN Ming 59.05 2 SMITH Nicola 55.51 3 DHONDY Heather 58.10 3 SOKOLOW Tobi 54.93 4 SEAMON-MOLSON Janice 55.71 4 WANG Hongli 54.06 5 WANG Hongli 54.29 5 DHONDY Heather 53.33 6 STOCKDALE Susan 53.81 6 CRONIER Benedicte 53.04 - GAVIARD Daniele 53.81 7 FENG Xuefeng 52.61 8 SMITH Nicola 52.86 8 SUN Ming 51.74 9 BESSIS Veronique 52.38 - BESSIS Veronique 51.74 10 LEVITINA Irina 51.43 10 SENIOR Nevena 50.58 11 D'OVIDIO Catherine 50.00 11 WILLARD Sylvie 50.43 - WILLARD Sylvie 50.00 12 SUN Yanhui 50.29 13 SUN Yanhui 49.52 - LEVITINA Irina 50.29 - DEAS Lynn 49.52 14 BROCK Sally 49.86 15 SANBORN Kerri 49.05 15 STOCKDALE Susan 49.13 16 FENG Xuefeng 48.10 16 D'OVIDIO Catherine 48.99 17 BROCK Sally 46.67 - SANBORN Kerri 48.99 18 LU Yan 44.76 18 PALMER Beth 47.10 - PALMER Beth 44.76 19 DEAS Lynn 46.52 20 NEVE Joanna 44.29 20 BROWN Fiona 46.38 21 GU Ling 43.33 21 LU Yan 46.09 - BROWN Fiona 43.33 22 GAVIARD Daniele 45.94 - CRONIER Benedicte 43.33 23 NEVE Joanna 44.78 24 SENIOR Nevena 42.38 24 GU Ling 41.30 2 9-16 December 2011 SPORTACCORD WORLD MIND GAMES Men’s Individual — Session Two Midway through the second session of the Men’s Individ- Board 17. Dealer North. None Vul. ual, USA’s Chris Willenken still led the way and he came [7 to our featured table for the next round, to partner fellow- ] J 10 8 7 4 American, Fred Gitelman, who was also well up in the over- all rankings. {8 7 } K Q 9 7 2 Board 13. Dealer North. All Vul. [ A J 4N [ K 6 3 2 [ Q J 9 5 3 2 ] 9 5 ] Q 6 W E ]J 3 { Q 10 5 { A J 9 6 4 {5 3 } A J 10 8 3S } 5 4 } Q 7 2 [ Q 10 9 8 5 ] A K 3 2 [ A 6N [ K 10 4 ] 9 2 ] K 7 6 5 4 { K 3 2 { K 8 7 6 4W E { A }6 } A K 4 3S } J 9 6 5 West North East South [8 7 Shi Lian Drijver Moss ] A Q 10 8 — Pass Pass 1[ { Q J 10 9 2 2} Pass 2NT Pass } 10 8 Pass Dble All Pass West North East South Brad Moss made a normal opening bid on the South cards and Miao Shi made a dubious overcall — I’m sure he would Hou Willenken Moss Gitelman have liked a bit more playing strength but it often pays to — Pass 1] Pass get into the auction at matchpoints and the vulnerability 2} Pass 2] Pass was the best one for partscore competition. Ruoyi Lian 2[ Pass 3} Pass quietly passed, hoping for a reopening double, which he 3NT Pass Pass Dble would pass again for penalties. Bas Drijver had sufficient Pass Pass 5} All Pass strength to try for game, responding 2NT and, when that came back to Lian, he doubled, ending the auction. Brad Moss opened the borderline East hand and Xu Hou Moss led his singleton club and Drijver, knowing what the followed a deliberately misleading auction with the expec- position had to be in that suit, called for the ace and ran tation that he would eventually declare 3NT and that this the queen of diamonds then, when that held, the ten, losing would make the defence more difficult. It might well have done so, but Fred Gitelman doubled for a heart lead and Moss ran. Now Hou’s bidding came home to roost because Moss could have run to just 4}, giving his partner the op- tion of staying out of game and earning a plus score for his side. But Moss expected his partner to hold five clubs for this combination of bids and so jumped to the club game. Five Clubs is doomed, of course, the issue being whether declarer can get out for just one down. Chris Willenken led the three rather than the jack of hearts and Gitelman won the queen, cashed the ace and led a third round. While Wil- lenken could ruff that, the play was now effectively over with the trumps now coming in without further loss; down one for —100. Jing Liu, China 3 SPORTACCORD WORLD MIND GAMES Beijing, China to the king. Moss cashed the king of hearts, collecting the the thirteenth heart, Shi pitching a club from hand and jack from Lian, then continued with ace and another. The over-ruffing Lian’s five with the ace. He could no longer defence had five heart tricks and two clubs to take for pick up South’s jack-to-four trumps by straightforward down three; —500 and huge score for N/S. means but soon showed that it didn’t matter. Shi played Board 18. Dealer East. N/S Vul. three rounds of clubs, ruffing low, king of diamonds a ruff [8 5 with the nine, and a spade to the king. Now another dia- ] J 9 2 mond lead allowed him to trump coup the jack and make the last two tricks and his contract for +420. As the popu- { A Q 6 5 lar result was +400 in 3NT, making 4[ was a very good re- } 9 8 6 3 sult for E/W. [ Q 10 9 6N [ A K 3 ] K 8 3 ] 10 7 5 W E Board 24. Dealer West. None Vul. { 8 7 { K J 10 9 3 [ Q 10 9 8 3 } A K J 7S } 5 4 [ J 7 4 2 ] Q 8 7 2 ] A Q 6 4 { 8 6 2 {4 2 }2 } Q 10 2 [ A J 4 2 [ K 5 N West North East South ] 10 3 ] K J 6 5 W E Shi Lian Drijver Moss { A 10 9 7 4 { 3 — — 1{ Pass } 7 4S } K J 9 6 5 3 1[ Pass 2[ Pass [7 6 3} Pass 3[ Pass ] A 9 4 4[ All Pass { K Q J 5 You might imagine that everyone would get to 3NT on } A Q 10 8 the E/W cards once East opens the bidding. And, indeed, at most tables that was the case, the contract making nine West North East South tricks where the defence attacked hearts from the start. Lian Hoftaniska Malinowski Tundal Drijver and Shi produced a little variety by playing 4[ on the four-three fit. Pass Pass 1} 1NT Lian led the two of hearts to the ace and back came the Dble 2[ 3} Dble heart four to Shi’s king. He led a diamond up and Lian All Pass grabbed the ace and continued with a third heart to his partner’s queen.
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