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THE CHAMPIONS Chairman Per Jannersten (Sweden) Ibpa@Jannersten.Se Yeh Bros THE INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE PRESS ASSOCIATION Editor: John Carruthers This Bulletin is published monthly and circulated to members of the International Bridge Press Association, comprising the world’s leading journalists, authors and editors of news, books and articles about contract bridge, with an estimated readership of some BULLETIN 200 million people who enjoy the most widely-played of all card games. www.ibpa.com Bulletin No. 643 August 10, 2018 President Barry Rigal (USA) +1 212 366 4799 [email protected] THE CHAMPIONS Chairman Per Jannersten (Sweden) [email protected] Yeh Bros. Cup Executive Vice-President Winners: David Stern (Australia) John Hurd, [email protected] John Kranyak, Organizational Vincent Demuy, Vice-President & Justin Lall Bulletin Production (See p.2) Manager Dilip Gidwani (India) +91 98214 53817 Photo: Christina Lund Madsen/Fu Qiang [email protected] Secretary Hong Kong Elisabeth van Ettinger Inter-City (Netherlands) Teams +31 655 680 120 Winners: [email protected] Wen Fei Wang, Treasurer Vincent Li, Richard Solomon (NZ) Wei Ming Wang, +64 9 232 8494 Qi Shen [email protected] (See p.7) Awards Secretary Photo: Rainy Lai/Edward Cheung Brent Manley (USA) [email protected] Spingold Trophy Membership Secretary Winners: Katie Thorpe (Canada) Krzysztof Martens +1 519 981 9248 (coach), [email protected] Tor Helness, Honorary Auditor Piotr Gawrys, Richard Fleet (England) Bob Heller [email protected] (presenter), Michal Klukowski, Honorary General Counsel Geir Helgemo David Harris (England) [email protected] Photo: Jessica Larsson (See p.14) President Emeritus Address all IBPA Bulletin correspondence to: JOHN CARRUTHERS Tommy Sandsmark (Norway) 1322 Patricia Blvd., Kingsville, Ontario, N9Y 2R4, CANADA [email protected] Tel: +1 519-733-9247 email: [email protected] 1 West North East South Aronov Tislevoll Damianova Ware Yeh Bros. Cup 1NT 2]1 Double Pass Beijing 2NT Pass 3NT Pass July 1-5, 2018 Pass Pass Barry Rigal, NYC 1. Majors Fu Qiang, Beijing Partner leads the ten of hearts against three notrump. John Carruthers, Declarer plays the three from dummy and you play Kingsville, ON the … ? At one table, Michael Ware played the seven, discouraging, but followed with the four of diamonds, Preamble (JC) (reverse Smith) encouraging (the eight of diamonds The Yeh Bros. Cup has a unique format. All of the would have been discouraging) on declarer’s diamond teams play a Swiss qualifier, then the top 16 teams to the ace. He hoped the mixed signal would allow GeO play knockouts, but in two brackets: the top bracket Tislevoll to work out the best defence. At trick three, consists of qualifiers 1 through 8, while the lower Tislevoll took the proffered jack of spades with his queen bracket contains the teams finishing ninth through and, believing that declarer must have the ace-queen- sixteenth in the Swiss. The top-bracketed teams play jack of hearts, decided to try for gold with a shift to the a double KO, falling into the lower bracket with a club king. But this was the full story: loss, while the bottom-bracketed teams are [ A Q 5 3 eliminated with a single loss. There is a kicker: Chen ] K 10 9 8 5 Yeh’s team is automatically the No. 1 seed in the {J 9 upper bracket for the KOs. Also, late in the KOs, of }K 4 necessity, the lower bracket plays some three-way [ K 10 9 8 2 [ J 7 matches, with just one team going through, so it’s tough to survive from there. ]A Q 2 ]4 3 { K 7 2 { A 10 5 3 The generosity of the sponsorship means that the } Q 6 } A 9 8 3 2 players love the event very much and no one ever [6 4 objects to Mr. Yeh’s team qualifying automatically. ]J 7 6 Maybe the sixteenth-placed team will occasionally have { Q 8 6 4 some regrets – but the conditions of contest are clear } J 10 7 5 and the disadvantage to the players so minimal that this is a very good deal for all concerned. As you can see, this line of defence was not a howling success. In the other room, Nanev as South did not The event moves around the Pacific Rim, and so far burden Stefanov with the problem. He played the jack has been held in China, Japan, Australia and, of course, of hearts on his partner’s lead of the ten at trick one. Mr. Yeh’s home country, Chinese Taipei. This year, we were in Beijing. There were no further issues for the defence after that. (All deals are reported by Barry Rigal except where noted otherwise.) Qualifying Round 3 - India v Chinese Taipei Qualifying Round 2 - Bulgaria v NZ On the following deal, North/South were tormented by the curse of having the balance of high cards: Board 16. Dealer West. EW Vul. [J 7 Board 23. Dealer South. Both Vul. ]4 3 [— { A 10 5 3 ] K Q 8 7 4 3 } A 9 8 3 2 { A 5 3 2 [6 4 }Q 9 2 ]J 7 6 [ A K 10 7 4 3 [ J 9 8 { Q 8 6 4 ] J ] 10 9 2 } J 10 7 5 { Q J 9 8 { 10 6 West North East South } 6 5 } A K 10 8 3 Brown Stefanov Whibley Nanev [ Q 6 5 2 1NT 2}1 3NT Pass ]A 6 5 Pass Pass {K 7 4 1. Majors }J 7 4 2 West North East South Board 29. Dealer North. Both Vul. Chen Gupta Yeh Tewari [8 5 3 — — — Pass ]K 1[ 2] 2[ 3] { A 8 7 6 5 3[ Pass Pass 4] } 6 5 4 3 4[ Pass Pass Double [ Q 10 7 6 [ K Pass Pass Pass ] A 9 8 6 2 ] J 10 3 { Q 10 9 { K J 2 West North East South } 2 } A K 10 9 8 7 Venkatesh D.Yang Anklesaria S.Yang [ A J 9 4 2 — — — Pass ] Q 7 5 4 1[ 2] 2[ 3] {4 3 3[ 4] Pass Pass }Q J 4[ 5] Double Pass West North East South Pass Pass Chen Gupta Yeh Tewari Students of indiscipline at the table should admire — Pass 1} Pass these two auctions for the number of breaches of 1] Pass 2} Pass partnership faith committed here. Both East/West pairs Pass Pass got this deal exactly right, though, bidding on to four Two clubs made two overtricks for plus 130. spades and doubling the opponents if they dared to West North East South do any more bidding. Venkatesh D.Yang Anklesaria S.Yang Against five hearts doubled, the defenders took their — Pass 1NT Pass 2} Pass 2{ Pass club ruff and played a top spade. What would you do 3[1 Pass 4] Pass now? If you played carefully by ruffing, testing trumps, Pass Pass then trying to ruff a diamond in dummy, well done – 1. 4 spades & 5 hearts, forcing to game but you weren’t careful enough. That was what David Yang did, after cashing the heart king and finding the Sidney Yang led the queen of clubs and David Yang bad news in trumps. East took the opportunity to pitch won the first heart to play back a club. Declarer put in spades on the third and fourth diamonds, so declarer the ten, forcing the jack, ruffed, and led a spade to the could ruff the diamond loser, unblock the heart ace, king and ace. When a spade was continued, declarer but was still locked in dummy to arrange a trump ruffed it with the ten of hearts in hand to lead a heart to the nine and get the good and bad news. Now he promotion against himself. There is no diamond-spade led a diamond from dummy and, had North ducked, squeeze since the communications can be disrupted declarer would have put in the jack and led clubs to by another diamond play if you duck a diamond. You neutralize South’s trump holding, with a diamond re- have to play three rounds of diamonds without playing entry to hand if South ruffed the first club. North even one round of trumps to get out for two down. actually took his diamond ace and played back a second There might not appear to be any problem making diamond, but declarer could simply win in hand and four spades doubled, despite the 4-0 trump break, but run clubs through South for the trump coup. that is not so. After two rounds of hearts, Venkatesh Those 10 IMPs saw India win the match 14-6. ruffed in and played a top trump – and that should Threading the Needle have been fatal. He crossed to dummy in clubs to pass the jack of spades, ducked of course, then led the six New Zealand hasn’t had much to cheer about this of diamonds to the nine and ace with Gupta. That player tournament, but GeO Tislevoll found a nice line in his could win and force declarer once more but, when game here ... South won the king of diamonds, he did not have a Board 19. Dealer North. EW Vul. fourth heart left to tap declarer for the last, and critical, [ A Q 10 8 time. Had South risen with king of diamonds on the ]Q 9 6 first round of the suit (not an easy play but still the { 9 8 7 3 2 indicated one, surely?) he can lead a heart and let his }3 partner play the fourth heart when in with ace of [ K J 5 [ 9 4 3 2 diamonds.
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