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No. PHOGHAM Open PaiIrs, second final I Rdies' Pairs second final Consolation Pairs, second session Open. Paix's third final Ladies' Pairs, third final Consolation Pairs, third final3 session 4 C 4 9 4 0
OPEN PA~ Standings after 1st final session P "".~ Hank Co~tear Names Points 1 Canada Eric Kokish Petex Nagy 327. 50 j F x'Rnce Jean-Maxc Houdinesco -Jean Louxs Stoppa 311. 60 Canada Ted Horning John Stevens 30V, 50 USA Hon Andersen. Hugh MacI ean 294. 50 5 Poland Lukasz I ebioda Andrezej Wilkosz 291. 50 6/v USA Steve Hobinson - Kit Woolsey 291. 00 South Africa Hyxnie Butkow - Neveille Eber 291. OO USA Hogex' Bates John Mohan 288. 00 USA Hobert Hamman Hobert Wolff 283. 00 10 USA thy CappeHetti - Mike CappeQetti 274. 60 11 Brazil Marcelo Bxanco - Gabino Cintra 272. 60 12/13 USA Alan Sontag Peter W'eichsel 272, 00 12/13 Netherlands Andre Mulder Carol Van Oppen 2V2. 00 Fxance Claude Delmouly Edmond Vial 271, 50 USA Steve Lapides Walt Walvick 270. 50 France J. Mourgugs H. Pacault 264. 00 lv/18 France DRmiahi I.eHoyex 261. 00 1V/18 Morocco JRquib Tazi Hamid Seb't 261. 00 19 South Africa Hymie Osie - Alan Simmonds 258. 00 2O France Christian Mari Michel Perx on 253. 50 fd' LAMES' PAIHS Standings after 1st final, session Hank t Naxnes Points 1 France Genevieve Moxenas Mariane Serf 329. 50 USA Hermine Baron - Beverly Hosenberg 312. 50 USA Judi Baden Katherine Wei 300. 60 25 Ireland36 EQeen O~Doherty - Ann 'Quinn 291. 50 Canada Francine Cimon - Barbara Henia 291. 00 USA Edith Kemp Barbara Ha.ppapoxt 290. 50 France Marguerite Gaiihard - Helene Zuccarelli 285, 50 7 8 USA Betty Ann Kennedy - Carol Seers 284. 06 9 France Claude Blouquit Elizabeth Delor 2V '.50 1O/ll Nethex lands Hia Gerards - Wil Van Heusden 276. 50 IO/11 France Od66 Lederman - Jacqueline Velut 276. 50 12 USA Mary Jane Farell - Marilyn Johnson 274. 50 13 France Eliane Derox e Odile Meuriot 274. 00. 14 Brazil A gota Mandelot Heloisa Nogueira 273. 00 15 Cana.da Diana Gordon Sharyn Kokish 272. 00 16 USA Emma Jean Hawes Dorothy Yruscott 2VO. 50 17 Israel Vera Sllaufel. - Dora Brechner 269. 00 18 Italy Marisa D'Andrea - Luciana Capodanno 267, OO 19 Great Brita in Hita Oldroyd Mly Sowter 266. 00 20 Australia Elizabeth Havas Barbara McDonald 263. 50
DEADLINE fox Entries in the MIXED PAIHS is 1800 hours pm! Friday, June 23. Make your entr:"es at HospitRIity today. The credentials committee wiD meet on F riday night to confirtn entries.
sponsored by the Hyatt RegencyHotel World Bridge Federation, hosted by the New Orleans La., U.S.A. can Contract Bridge League June 12-30, 1978 lT'S A WHOLE NEW BAII. GAME j
It'8 a whole new ball game ".'nthe final. There'8 no carryover from the previous'six sessions ' everyone starts from scratch. The only thing the. first aix sessions determined waa whether or not you qualified to play in the last four. Moving to the foxe in last night'8 opening session were Eric Kokish and Peter Nagy, two Canadian stars from Montreal. They put together a 63. 8' game to take the lead by 16 points over France'8 Jean-Mare RoudjLnescoand Jean. Louiia Stoppa. Top on a board was 19. The other Canadian paix in the finale Toronto'8 Ted Ho~g and John Stevens, were in third, with Americans Ron Andersen and Hugh MacLean next. But totaQy missing from the leaders were Gabriel Chagas and Pedro Paulo Assumpcao of Brazil, the top qualifiers. They had their fixat bad session when it really hurt. In the Women's Paixs, the leaders are from France Genevieve Morenas and Mariane Serf. Their percentage was even better than the Open leaders 64. 2%. And Petra Kaas and Bep Vriend of the Netherlands, the top qualifiers, were nowhere among the leaders, just like their Open Pair counterparts. Also missing from the leaders were ~ Markus and Nikki Gardener of Great Britain. Rixi is trying fox her third Women'8 Pairs title in five tries. In second place are Axnericans Hermine Baron and Beverly Rosenberg, 12 points ahead of Americana Judi Radin and Kathie Wei.
LEAD THAT SINGLETON TRUMP WHEN YGU DOUBLE t That seemed to be the theme running through the two hands Open Pairs leaders Eric Kokish and Peter Nagy brought to the Daily Bulletin in the wee hours this morning. In each case the opening lead by Nagy waa his singleton trump, and in each case the result was a clear top 19 matchpoints. They talked about Board 18 first, so here it is. Dlr; East 4 J10 Kokieh H~oadlea Na~ LaNoue Vul: N-S '0 82 EAST SOUTH WEST NORTH 0996 PRss 1 0 Dbl. 2 4 4 K98752 PR88 2 0 DM. 3 0 4 K@7 0 9843 3'V 40 PR88 PA@96 J 7 53 Pass 5 0 Dbll.. All Pass 0 7 4 AQJ103 4 64 Out came the singleton diamond taken in 4 A652 dummy, and Fxank Hoadley of New Orleans passed 0 K104 the ~eJ to Nagy's queen. Now Nagy should have had 0 A KJ1052 a problem what couM he lead to avoid giving away a trick'P But he didn't have a pxoblemt Kokiah anticipated the situation and played the 9 on the jack, so Nagy knew he had the 8, So back came the 4 K and now declarer had no way to avoid losing three more major au1t tricks to go down 500. The play to Board 13 was a bit more intricate. Dlr." North 4 A 10 53 Schwartz Na~ Seiigman Kokish Vul: Both 0 A Q J 8 2 NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST 0 6 Dbl, 24 Dbl. Ci 832 3 U Pass Dbl. 0 9742 4 8 Pass Pass Pa 88 9 0 K J108 0 A@7 Kokish'8 first double showed some cards 4 A954 0 K Q 7 6 hi8 secondwas for penaltieaI Out came Nagy's O'KQJ6 singletontrump, takenby the jack and Hugo 'V 63 Schwartzof Israel tried the hea,xtfinesse, losing 0 95432 to the king, Nagytook, the 4 K, then led to Kokiah's 4 J10 4A so Eric could lead anothertrump. Hugotook this with the 6 and led another heart. Nagy pitched R diamond Rs the ace won, Back came a di'd,mondon which Kokish pia1yedthe queen, but Nagy overtook with the king to lead a third trump. Now declarer was helpless the 'VQ was ru6ed, and Schwaxtz could make only his two remaining trumps one in each hand. That was 800 to the Canadian pair.
Those countries that missed their scheduled appointment to have their photograph taken may contact one of the photographers, either Chuck Anderson or Jane Taylor, at the Photo Display Desk to make an appointment for anothex tixne. Here ia the schedulefor MONDA7, June 26; 11:3,5 Finland 11 30 Belgium 11:45, Germany
A I<'UNCTIONGF THE LEVEL'P... When Jacob MoeHer of Iceland opened 24 against Achtenberg of Switzerland, the bid was Alerted two five-card minora in a 'hand woxth an opening bid. Gn the next deal Moeller opened 3 @ a typical preempt but he was floored by Achtenbex'g'8 question: "Three-suited, I preauxjle 'P"
04 BGLS BRILLIANCY PRIZES Thel'e win be two BGI S BriDiancy Prizes awarded at,this Olylllpiad, Gne to be awarded at the final banquet! will be for the best story on.the G]I~iud preferably conta~g a bridge hand, that has appeaxedin the Daily BuDetin or that the writer intends publishing in hi.s own news- paper or magazine, The othex', for the best played hand of the Glympiad, wfiU be announced in the next International Bridge Press Association Bulletin, Entries may' be submitted to Nelson Rice or to Tannah Hix"sch arxMng J~ 23! in Buddy A/B fourth floox', The playex' who wbls the Brilliancy Prize will receive a beautiful award from BGLS and the writer will receive a cash RwRx'd. The following hand has been Submitted as an entxy in the BGLS contest. The author is the talented young editor of Australian Brld e Ron Klinger whose credits also include winning the Far East Championships and many national successes.
TGTAI RECALL By RGN KLINGZR
The common lot of a bridge magazine editor is heartache. One of the few illtangible benefits is that you get to see a lot of hands day in day out. England's Joe Amsbury, editox of Po ular Brid e Montbl, showed that he had total recaD when Board 2 of QualifyIng Round 3 came up. Dlr: East 4 K43 Joe sat West and like most of the field Vul: N-S . 'V 103 found himself in 4C, North led a low diamond 0 J843 Rnd the fix st problem is to decide which two 862 discards to take on the top diamonds. Gne 4 AQ J10852 0'97 could pitch two hearts and then rely on two out 'V JV42 V K9 of three finesses, but as can be seen, only the 0 0 A K 9 7 6 5 club finesse works. 4 K1O 4 J53 Joe howevex', discRrded both his clubs on 4 6 the diamonds,but it Still appears that he wiU 'V A 865 lose R spRde Rnd three neartsa If he ~s 0 @102 a club to hand to tRke t116losing 116Rrtfinesse, % A@974 South ~ not be slow in switchug to a trump. Joe found an elegy solution to the pxoblem, remembering the classic "Benadonna, Coup" hand. He led She Idne of hearts froxn dummy and x'Rn it when South plRyed low. North WRs in with the 0 10 RQdreturned R trump~ won in dummy' The 'VK put South on p4y but he had no trump to play. Joe ruffed South'8 club and led a third heart, dropping North'8 queen. Now his jack was high, so he conceded just two hearts Rnd a spade, A little learning can be a profitable thing,
DEFTLY DOES IT By RON KLINGER
Board 16 of the second sexnifinai session had plenty of scope for duelling between declaxer and the defense: Dlr; West 0 K Q 7 2 At oux table the bidding began; Vul Z-W '7 A 10 7 6 WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH OQV 1 NT ! 2 0 ! Pass 2 'V 4 K@5 Pass Pass. 4A44 J965 ! 15-18 ! Takeout for the majors 0 2 0 K984 0 A 532 . At this stage, R further competitive 4A JV 8643 move by East proved expensive, but the play in 4l 1083 2 0 is fascinating. Suppose West be~8 with ace Vq J85 arid another spade, looking for a spade ~. 0 J106 Dummy wins and declarer'8 best move is to lead 4 1092 R diamond, ZRSt wi3j. vrin the ace and give West his spade ~~. West can now cash his 0 K and 4 A and then lead a second club, forcing dummy on lead. Now West will make his 'VK for the setting trick. ~ South has a brilliant countex, When West cashes the 4 A, South unblocks dummy's queen. or king. Now when a second club comes, declarer can duck in duxnmy and run it to his low TilRt solution 'l8 not hard to find since R} it is the GQly chance Rnd b! once ERst QRSshown up with five points, R11the remaining points must be with West for his 15-18 1 NT opening, For anothex view of the same hand, see page 8. !
DEADLINE FGR ENTREESin the Gpen Teams is 1800 houl 8 pm} on Saturday, June 24. Please make your entry at the Hospitality Centex as soon as vour plans are finalized. YOU' VE GGT TG CPS TG GET By ERIC KGKISH, Montreal
Bridge players are notoriously tight when it comes to conceding 8,trilck that might be saved. Sometimes, howevex, a little charity is requixed for the greater good. West, in the 2nd semifinal round of the open pairs, could not bear to set up declarer'8 4 K, but he paid the price fox' hia tightfistedne88in rather painfu fashion, This wae Board 3; Dlr: North 4 8 NGRYH EAST SOUTH WEST Vul E-W 7 Q 9 3 2 Pass 1 0 2 0 etrong! 9 43 3 4 Pass 3 NT AH Pass 4 AK9862 4 A J]09762 A Q3 %like Cappelletti Nox
MAKING FGUB THE HAHD WAY By MCI+KBD GSHMG Imagine a hand on,which dec~urer fata to take a trump finesse that works faBs to take a side suit finesse that works, and faGs to cash an aee yet makes his contract. That's what Eugene O'NeQl did on Board 32 of the fourth qualmy/ng session of the Open Pairs. Dlr: West 4 J 9 8 5 4 WEST NGR78 EAST SOUTH Vul: E-W 'V 6 O'Neiil Bluhm Fox Sanders 0 9853 1 NT Pass Dbl. A 4 1053 Pass 3 NT Pass 4 A1032 4.K Pace Paaa Pass K J94 0A106 OQJ72 The double showed some atuLf, not necessarily 4 J9 4 K 8 6 2 clubs, in the Lou Bluhm Tom Sardere system, but Q 7 81uhm led a club anyway, Tommy took the queen, V 91082 cashed the ace and led a third round G'Neil» pitching ! K4 a diamond from hie hand aa he won with the king in 0 A@74 dummy. After cashing t'he 0 K, he led to the 'VK, then alter some deliberation returned a trump to the ace, not at all happy that he had failed to finesse for the queen on the fix st round. Next he led a diamond to the ace disdaining the finesse and unfed a spade, disdaining cashing the 4 A. He cashed the good 0 B pitching the 910, then led the 6Q, covexed by the king and ruffed. He returned to dummy via a spade ruff then led anothex diamond, making hia 0 J en passant. It wasn't a great score, but it wae above average a fine recovery aftex a x"ough start.
LOST..., JIM BOP~Ã has lost hia briefcase. If founa., please return to the Press Boom 'Burgundy A/B fourth floor. The lost bxiefcaae may be identified aa Jim'8 by the fact that it contains a typed newspaper article about a Jacoby hand.
NOTICE: IRPA MEMBERS . ! There %C'Qbe a,meeting of IBPA executive committee membersat 10."30this morning Thursday! in the Buena Vista xocm, 4th f/oor, ! The first annual general meeting of Internatiioml Bridge Prese Association members naa been scheduled for 10 30 am Fxiday tomorrow! >he room wiV. be announced in the 13aQyBulletin, or inquire in Prese acorn -- BuxgundyA B, fourth floor, ! IBPA members who have not paid current dues because o» currency traxiefex ~icultles ' ax'e invited 'to aee Nelson ace in the Px'esa Booxn Burgundy A and B fourth. floox'. PATING OUTLINES BERMUDA BO'lVL PROPOSALS
In hie report to the Board of Governoxs, President Jaime Grtiz-Patino talked to some extent Rbout alternate propoeRle concerning participation in the Bermuda How]I, Here Rx8 further excerpts from Patino'e message: .I have xeceived altex'nate pxopoeals vlth I eepect to participation in the Hexmuda Howl which are being discussed by youx Executive. It is my belief that in order to facilitate and promote bridge, new Zones must be cxeated eo as to reduce distances to be traveled, since many of the younger NCBG's do not h" ve euÃicient economic means io subsidize the travel and expenses of their teams who have to compete ai gx'eat distances fx'om theix homes. On the other band, the attraction to the Zonee must be the ultiInate possibility to participate in a Bermuda Bowl. It is equaDy underst" ndable that one cannot, because of ihe multiplicity of Zones, transform tbe Bermuda Bowl into a. secor d-class ~ Team Glympiad with only two or thx"ee team's of a caliber suf'ficient to qmlify amongst the first ii;enNCBG's in a true team Glympiad. In Manila, to conform tc the newly-adopted By-Laws and in conjunction with the Zoning Committee, the Executive Council. no~xated six Zones plus a, general Zone, and the number of members on, the Executive Council was reduced to 12: 4 each from Zone I Europe, and Zone 2 North America; 1 each from Zone 3 South America", Zone 5 Central American and Caribbean; Zone 6 Far East Asia,; and Zone 7 South Pacific. Furthermore, in Manila the foDowlng new NCBG's were admitted as members of the WBF: Bangladesh,. Guyana, St. IQtte Surinam and Zambia thus bringing the total membership of the WBF to 69. I am a strong believer that zonal co~titione held in the years of our Ol~iade, whether pairs or teams, detract substantiaDy fxom our WBF events. Not only are many NCBG's too poor to pay the fuD expenses of teaxns ox paxinerships to WBF Olympiads, but they are quite unable to give financial suppor".to a team. for a zonal competition as weD ae covex the expenses of players going in the same yeax to an Glympiad. They wiD always prefer to spend their money to send their team to the zonal championship, Furthermore even where money Je not Gf the prime importance, the individual player cannot afford to take off the necessary time to participate in both a zonal championship and a WBF Glympiad. I have in my files xoany examples of couniriee unable to eehd representatives or Rt least their beet repxeeentatives, to these Glympiads in New Gl'leans because the players have already taken time off to participate in ihe Caribbean Championship that was heM last week, or have already reserved theix" holidays for the SouthAmerican Championship that wil'1 be held in Caracas in October of this year. The same applies to teams from the Fal East who have declined because they a re preparing to participate in the Far East Championship that will be heM in India lRter this year. Luckily the ACHL system of selection and scheduling to~ments is more supple and there is no such event Re a zonal champioxlship thexefoxe no such conflict. With respect to the European. Bxidge League, othex than the Scandinavian Championship, which fortunately concerns only 5 Gut Gf the 23 members of the EBL, there is no conflict. Thanks to the efforts of oux' first President, Baron Robert de Nexon, and subsequently to the present President Andre I emaiire, the EBL bas canceDed its European Championships in the years of the Glympiads Rnd also the important Comn on Market Champ>onehips are held in the odd years so ae not to conflict with WBF events. I am convinced that the only way to promote R good standard of bridge within the smaller NCBG'e is fox them to compete with the ton players from the largex NCBG's and, furthermore, that this wiD promote the social aspect of' our game axld help cement better relations between our different members. It is therefox'e fundamelltal that each and every NCBG devote part of its budget not only to support ite teams to zonal competitions, but also to the WBF events. We in the Executive wiD do aD we can to encourage participation in WBF events to the detriment of other multiple NCBO events that compete against us. I sincerely beDeve that much can be done by the WBF to improve, foster Rnd develop bridge in smaDer countries and areas such ae Central America and the Caribbean, as well ae in the Far East, and hope that I and my successors wDi continue in this field where much work remains to be done.
Soon after my election ae President, I appointed a committee to study the validity of Gur present scoring, not v;ith any preconceived idea of changing Gux pxesent rubber bridge scoring but with the purpose of examining if, foDowing the experience gained ovex the past decades, our leadilng experts are etiD of the opinion thai nothing better can be produced. On the strong xecommendation of cux General Counsel it was decided by the Management Committee to xeccmmend the incorpox"ation of the WBF. undex' the laws of the State of New York. The incorporation is proviGed fox' ixl the existing '~onstitution Rnd By-LRwe Gf the WBF~ Rnd th8 incorporation of the WBF has been propexly comp'eted. It became apparent that the WBF by-Laws were no longer in line with oux cuxx"ent practice. Nox, in many Rxeas, wel.e thiBy appropriate in view Qf the developments that had tRken plRC8over the years Due to ~icultiBS in co"Ymux~catio't with Inane Gf Gux NCBO's our late President Julius Bosenblum, proposed that we amend the Article Gxour Constitution referring to By-Law changes, whereby the Executive Council can make any By-Law changes sub>ect only to the NCBO's being able by a majoxity vote, io reject such changes within thxee months. Patino Outlines Pro peals continued- Aftex chasing up many NCBG'e, I am pleased to report that sufficient votes were received to cRx'x'ythis motion, Rnd that not Gne negRtive vote wRs received. Following this amendment to the Constitution, in consultation with oux General Counsel, the Management Committee drafted a.rew eet of By-I,Rms and, in order to gain tixne, these mere submitted direct".y to R11the NCBG's for their approval. These mere appxoved by 60 NCBG'8 in f favor with only foux negative votes. The Executive Council subsequently recommended, at ite meeting in Manila, that a few amendments be m@deto the nem By-Lame, These Rxnendmentehave since been approved unanimously by the NCBG'e. q 4 q
KII LING PLAYS BY THE ANGEI GAB~I By JGSF. LE BEAU If I mere foxced to choose the competitor who played beet 4Iring the qualifying and semi- final rounds of the Open, I mould have to select Gabriel Chagae of Brazil. Here are some of the hands that impressed me so much, The auction hae gone as follows, with East-West vulnexable; EAST SOUTH WEb~ NORTH Pass 14 Pass Touhold as North: 4 0 864 PR88 2 'V Pass 3 4 0 K Pass 4 4 Pass 0 A KQ 7 Pass 4 7 PR88 4 NY 4 J1096 Pass 6 4 Pass NT wae Blackwood and the jump to 64 showed two aces and a void in clu.be, ! Did you bid 74? Chagaedid the right cal'i. Pedro Paulo Aesumpcao scored 13 tricks by ruffing two hearts since hie handwae O' A K9 73 2 7 A J 6 5 0 9 53 4 --. This wae Board 6 in the first qualifying session.. ! 4 0474 04<740474 Look nom to Chagae as a leader. What caxd do you choose holding". on this auct ion from Board 22 of the fouxth qualifying session? 1 952 WEST NOAH EA ST SOUTH 0A10754 Pass 1 4 Pass 10 4 J10763 PRse 2 NT Pass 3 4 It doesn't seem possible Pass PR 88 5 that East could have the UA or the 0 A Pass All Pass so the best hope seems to be that he hae the 0 K... or maybe even the queen i You need to get partner on. lead so he can give you a spade ruff... So Chagae led a low diamond away from hie ace i Here's the whole deal: Dlr: East 4 q964 Vul: E-W 'V A K643 Qn this diabolical lead, hom can 098 declarer be blamed for playing 4 K4 the jack? Assumpcao took the queen 4 108753 and quicidy realized the situation. QQV V 952 Without hesitation he had a spade on 0 @32 0 A10V54 the table~ Rnd after ChRgas got hi8 4 932 4 J 10763 ~, he took his 0A to set the 4 AKJ2 contract. V J108 0 KJ6 @AQ8 The last exhibit is an illustration of a perfect killing defense in which all the cards had to be played in precisely the right oxdex. See if you can find the right defense as East on this deal, Board 13 from the second semifinal EAST Chagas! K J964 Fix"et of all, what do you lead'? Chagas QA108 decided on the ''neutMcl' lead of R trump~ Rnd dummy! 0 6 3 partner'8 kmg mas taken by the ace. Then SOUTH 4 J85 declarex played the 'V4. Which heart do you play? & A108 If the ace why'? If not, why not? 'v" K6 Chagas did take the R,ce, and he played 0 9987 another trump to the 7, 5 and 10. Now North 4 A973 played the 0 2. It'8 your turn again what's your NORTH SOUTH play? You had better have played the 4 J just as Chagae did 10 -- with alacrity. This went to the ace, and dummy cashed the 2 0 VK befox'e playing another spade, Do you take it? If so, what 5 4 5 0 Passed! do you return P This problem ie a little easier than the earlier ones, Of course you grab the king and lead back another spade. This settles declarer'8 hash he has no way to avoid losing a club the setting trick. If ChRgR8had nGt tRken the VA declRx'Bx'mouM have made his contract becRuse Chagae mould have been endplayed. Aftex a round of txump, dechrer mould have played a heart, and Chagas mould have had to switch to a spade to declaxex'8 queen. Then it would be easy for declarer to establish the fourth club fox a discard of hie third spade. The fW~'deal ie on the following page. Bd 813 Dlx'" North Vul: Both
F~T T~E EVER... A woxld championship book based on this Glympiad ~.L be published by the American Contract Bridge League, This wiD be the first time a book ever has beendone about a %'orld Paix Gly~iad. The bookwiD feature handsfrom every competition, with emphasison the GpenPairs, the VemceCup Teams andthe GpenTeams. Editor Henry Francis wants this puMicationto be as "internationalt' as possible, with deals feat~g the stax8 of many, many countries. If you havea handyou thirfk is worthy.of using in this book droptby the Daily BuDetinroom Hur~dy C onthe fourth floor! and.teD either SueEmery or Henry about It. P hh h hk Pht llk I * I 'I, Plt ' Ikhh ' ~ht .Eht on sale at the book stoxe here at the tournament!or Tony Sowterox Dorthy Francis or Mary Gshlag. You'0 see the two, ladies kibitzing a leading pair at each session. Letf8 have some hands from Poland and Iceland and denmark and Venezuela, etc. And don't forget to buy your copy of the 19VVWorM Championship Book, now on.sale at $8PI tthlhk I,h.' kh hhk, .Il Ilk Ptlk ' klkt lhPIP "t It~PEEP World ts chock fun of sxcfttng hands from the Bermuda Howl tn Manffa. Read aft shout how the North Amertcan senal chaffeniferscame from far hetdkndto unseatthe defendtnachampfons. And read all a,bouthow well all the othex teams played Argentina, Sweden, Australia and Taiwan. This ~k is a MUST for RDworld class p~uyer8,
~EN ~CHE'.RS BELIEVE EACH G7HER . 5'8 bad enoughwhen one opponentpsychs, but whenboth do it'8 too muchfor Letty dePadua of the Philippines, the lady who was instrumental in making the Bermuda Bowl such a success in Manila last yeax. Sheis here with the PhDippineVenice Cupteam, and she also was competing in the Women'8 Pairs. TIde was Boaxd 10 from the fourth qualifying session, Dir: East 4 A K Q 8 V EAST SOUTH WEST NGRTH Vul: Both 0 A 53 Pass PR88 . 1 0 DM. 0 A104 2 V Pass fit 84. 5 9 Pi%88 Pass Dbl. 0 9432 65 .. RSS Pa 88 5 4 DM. Q 4 V 982 6v PR88 Pass E!bl. 9 K32 0 Q8V65 Pass Pass Pass 4 AK6 tl' 10 West opened with a diamond psych, and Letty 'V KZ10V6 made a takeout iouble. ER8t tried to talk hex' C J9 opponents out of spades by psyching a spade response, 0 QZV5 but all that happenedwas that the opponentsfooled each other, East believedthe openingbid Rndtook a saveagainst 4V, and of course Letty doubled, West didn't have diamonds, of coux'se,so she hopedpartner was telling the t~h as she convertedto spades. Shefound out this wasn't the story whenLetty doubledagain and East returned to diamonds,this time at the six level, After Letty doubledagcain, she didn't heax'West'8 pass, so she askedwhat hex call was. f"Voudonft think Pm goingto bid spadesagain io you'P" said West Rs she pRssed. The defensewas just R.sb~l as the bidding, Letty took two top spadesand the QA, then led the 0 9, rW'ed 'ln dummyand overruffed by Helen Tu~~ifs 0 9, Helentook the 'VK, but declarer xuffed the heart continuation, Declaxer led a, diamond to the queen, then retuxned a diamond to the king Rndace, After I etty tookthe 010, declaxex"took the xest, butthat was 1VOOfor Letty and Helen R cleax" top. Sd + th 4 g g g 4 g th 4 .4:
M1881SSIPPI R'JV ERBGA7 CMUSE Nake youx plans nov to attend the cruise or the Mississippi Rivexboat "President" with Gmar Sharif andthe principal participahntsof the 1978%'orld PAr Gl~iad. You wD]l.be guests of the Louisi~ BrMge Association on Wednesdayevening June 28, ~eland Rnd dance music will be providedby Tommy Yetta and his,band. There win be fxee refreshments and a cash bar. Buses will leave the Hyatt Regency at 8:30 pm.for the first shiest,le~ to the."President". Cruise time i8 9:30 pm.to 12 mi bight", the band plays fthm.12".30and shuttle buses back to the hotel wiH run from 12 midnight, Pour cost $2 per pexson, ~ show your WBF badgewhen you purchase tickets. DEADL&E for reservations -- 8 pm.Monday dune26, Makeyour rese~tions at the information desk, third floor foyer, next to WBF registration desk, TfRD come! ÃFIAT 4, BI Ul.l'eel'-""~' " > '~'A.' ' By lA'I "-»,RV ASHY G
Not often does RQopening ~Beadin R suit contract Kiake a dix fexence Lou Muhm found 8uch c3.Lead oxl Board 6 of the seconia 86«mifina«e. Dlr; W:-st 4 K Ci 7 2 "l:«!' ':ST NOI'..TI..' Vu'i: E-5' ~ A 16 7 6 1 Ie«' PB88 097 'M 88 Pp k.g5 .3965 I»a«+'~ t~dnsf~r bid @res bit strange but 'vI K 943 'i 2 perhaps he feared problems ";nthe heart suit. 6 K984 &A532 Bluhm hit upoxlthe 4'2 R8h" 8 opening8Rlvo» 4AZ7 4 8643 and Tom S"-Qders 8 foxced the ace, Ihclarer came @ 1083 to the '.pAand led a heart to the king, losing to the VQ«I85 ace«, No'qrBlilhm put the fx'ostingon the cake he ,".«3'3.0 6 underled his 0 K'-4 again t %|hocan bERmedeclarer $ 1692 i'ortrping the im»9 P Tomxny scoopedthe 10 RQ i continued spadesto let 3 ou drav »the rest of the trumps, Thencame the heartsRnd R coupieoi clubtricks vAile dec"ax'ervvas tlimxted to GQB trump tvLOdiamonds and the 4 A 4 four-tlrick vulDerableset wasvs» fh almostall the points Hut vrhat a dLference it »vouldhave made if eclaxer Dadbeen clairvoyant and put in the 0 J on the secord lead of the suit ! Then he mould ha';"6led to the:,~«Kand Mfed R heart, gone back to the 4 A and xuffed still anothex hoaxc That vL»ouldh" ve be«~Dseven tricks ",nay a one-l rick set ÃMybev/6 shouldhave SRid the openiinglead nlade a. deference of foux'trick8I Believeit OX'not, 2@'%as th «final Contraecat anvther tab«le»an .Xhe I".Orth i.here tX leo the underjeadOf the ViAI Needless to say»thi8 didn t vwrk o'utvvet~ eca"ix'Bx" v«f88 Rbl6 to brin*«"home hi8 cGQtrRct Via ai heart» a 8Pade»a CjLub»t'evo dlamond8 and tnree QBR~Cr XA'8, For another vow Gf the same han e»866 page 3$, '«L g g +:» '4« + «» +
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Nikki Gardener of Great Britain ',8 trig to ~i~rkv,her first vvorld championship Rndat the same time help RE;d.Markus win an unpxecedentei3.tR;4 Women'8 Pairs tjt>6. Ef thi8 is the kind of playing she,'8 doing, ¹dd i just might succee«!..I.ook at Board 16 Gfthe fifth qualifang session. Mr I.ast FA ST SOUTH WEST NOP»TH Vul Both 'v Q 4 I»a88 1 ~e'i 1 <~' 2 K@3 07 24 36 3 4 4 NT 4 AZ4 2*'a88 5 'papaws 6
, eUNSGKAKTIGN PAFL««» Lsadeers Rdcer 1st Australia George Hd,' d,s AIRD. »Vealsh 13.37. M Canada Ka rpn AIL i Bon Irene PO«dP««»on 1084. 50 SV«»eden Lennart lNasic«end BG I«jILdbeerg 3.083. 56 2o 3 A,. EX~CiesZCZak Poleec Janusx 1046, M Poland Sweden H«lns-Olof Hallen - Alv'«Lr ia«tenberg 1041. 50 eIamaica Ohir l YailD«l SRxni Illa+»fooQ 1035. 50 67pai13SA Dra Hlchar'0 Greene &lieVB Greenber »' 3.619. M Bermuda David Ezehx*61 - Colin Millillg ;on 1661« 06 9 I!ugh Mss Erik I elulsen 996. M 3.0 Kenya B. B. Hobson Na Ajania 993.. 06 11/12 Spain GR'.a Gomez-DE'- z Inger 788achsen 990. M 1142 xrea' Bx As I sat downto kibitz two of America's world champions,Eddie Kantar and Billy Eisenberg, I remerrkaredthe stories Kantar has written aboutthe problemshe and Billy have with their slam bidding, "How's the shm business'P" I asked x"eadyto fM"h "J~ fine " said Kantax 'So fax we haven't been put to the test. " I dMn't get a chanceto see if t'bey'veworked ou'..the kinks in theix slam bidding fortunately again they wexen"tpuii; to the test but their slam defensewas just fine they defeatedall three bid against them. in the fourth qualifying round. I found Board 24 Meresting not because of the bidding or the play, but because Omar Sharif could display such,afine senseof humor after collecting only half a matchpointin defense of a notrump game. Billy could have b "en.held to nine tricks with a spadelead, shouldhave been held to 11 tricks on the actual cJiublead, and finally made aQ 13 tricks when t% defense slipped. Dlro West Q A ]0 6 YVEST NORTH EAST SOUTH Vul: None V 754 1'P Pass 2 NT Pass 0 Q J8V3 3 NT Pass Pass Pass QQ6 O'V54 4 Q 9 8 Omarled the 48, andAhmed Hussein put up QAKJ98, ~ 'V 10 3 . the queen, losing to the king. The finesse of the 0 102 0 A K 9 6 0 J woxked and Biny led a low diamond to return 4 A109 4 K J 3 2 to his hand fox a second heart finesse. Be was 4 KJ32 surprised whenHussein produced the jack, so he 'V@62 took his hearts and clubs, then was xeadyto 0 54 finesse agamstthe 0Q.. But the queenpopped up 4 8V54 and Billy had all the tricks. Af'terwards ~rif told his partner of the new conventionhe had inventedduring the course of play. "WheneverI lead t'he eight,of clubs, that showsI have all the spadesin the world. You can.depend on me to haveall the spadesevery time I lead the 48 " Hexe's another deal on whLchKantax ant Eisenbergpicked up 76 I/2 of the 77 matchpoints available. This was Board 13, Dlr: Noxth NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST Vul; Mth 4 Q 10 5 2 Pass 2 0 0 9 Pass 24 44 0 K@93 Db,', Pass .Pass Pass 4 KQJ9 4 743 4 A KJ96 WhenEisenberg bid 2 ~in responseto 0 A K@4 0 10 8 5 3 2 Kantar's cuebid, he was showinga minixnum 0 A lo 0 J2 overcall, GeorgeRosenkranz, Mexico's premier 4 10872 player, decidedto get into the act with his jump to 4' 8 4 0, but Kantax liked his offensive prospects and U J76 bid the game, He wasn't so sure he had made the 0 87654 right decision when he heard the double, but BiHy 4 A653 reassured him by ~ng the contract with an overtrick. The diamondlead was take~ by the ace, and Billy figured North had to have a lot of spades to accountfox his double. Suitingthought to action, he finessedthe 49. After cas~g a top spade and discovering the 4-1 spnt, BKy was faced with a problem. Be could cash the other high truxnp and give up a snadetrxck but xf the hearts @ere4-0 he probably would go down He also would go down if he tried to get to dummy with a heart and North was able to x'uff the first round, . Sinceit seemedlike six of oneand a half dozen.of the other, Billy shruggedand led a heaxt to the ace., WhenNoxth had to foHow, it was aD over, BQly took anotherfinesse, drew the last trump and ran his heaxts to make five. Two other interesting sidelights occurred at theix table. An opponentwas having a devil of a time with all his bidding cards, and Eisenberg shov~edhim how to put them aH,together to take up the least possible space. The opponentwas able to return the favox almost immediately. BiHy overcailed an opening ~or with 24, but failed to put the "'Stops" sign on the table. His opponent took out his "'Stop" and placed it in front of Billy with a smile. Then Kantax Alerted the 24 bid, e»qMainingthat it was a, strong jump overcall. After the band was over and nine tricks had come in at spades, Eddie observed with typical "'Kantar candor" that he "always Alerts that bid when I'm worried about being doubled " Since he had enoughto redouble, everyone got a big kick out of his "candor", BREAKFAST BUFFET... Guests on the Modified American Plan MAP! are served bx'eakfast each morning fxom 7 am to 11 am in the BaHrooms A, B andCIi on the Hyatt Regency3xd Floor, xN THE EVENING... Guests on M A P will be served ~er in Ballrooms A, B and C ~tweenthe hours of 6 pm and 7:30 pm, SNACKSERVICE is availablein the BaDxooxnFoyer from 1 nmto 5 pmand from 8 3.5pm to 12 Midnight. HugoSchwartz and Shalom Seli~n of Israelaxe not at Rlltimid in thebid~ department. I watchedthem bid five slams in thefirst semifinal,These included a grandslam in spadeson Board12 that Seligman brought home on a squeezeagainst Paul Soloway and Bobby Goldman for 50matchpoints. Then there was the smallsiam in heartson Board 6 onwhich Schwarz ducked thefirst heartto the9, thenguessed correctly to finesseon the second round despite the fact that Noxthhad preempted 4~~ Re opener, reducing the possibilitythat he hadthe VK. Thefact that Souththoughta longtime befoxe passing 6Q also wae troublesome wae he thinking of saving at 64 or couM he havebeen considering a double'P But Board9 is the only oneon. which they gotR,U, the matchpoints. Dlr Noxth 4 63 NORTH EAST WEST Vul E-W 'V K 9 6 6 Pass 1 0 14 0 J10 2 2V 40 49 4 A954 Pass ' 4 4' 64 4 AQJ97 O'K85 Dbl. Pa88 Pass 0 6 0 A 9 9 8 76 3 LeaDuPont'8 double promised one defensive 4 K762 498 trick, andBenito Gaxozzo of It "ly eatfor the 4 1042 doublebecause he hadthe doubleton0 Kbehind the VQJ873 diamond biddero 0 K4 LeRled 'tile @A~ Rndthe switch wRsa heRrt 4 J103 to the ace. ObviouslySeligman had to usethose dia,monde, and it was coxnfoxting to know that Garozzomust have the 0 Kfor his passof the slamdouble. Heled to the OA, thenruffed a diamond.When the king came a-tumbling down, it waeall over, Migmandrew three rounds of trumps, endingin his hand, then went to the dumxnywith the 4 Qand clai.medfox 1660. The Israeli stare Ricowere strong on defense, Take a look at ~rd 22, Qlr: East 4 10 874 EAST SGIITH WEST NORTH Vul:E-W 0 Q6 1 4, Dbl. 1 0 Pass O'A 9653 2 4 Pass Pa88 24 4106 Pace Pass Pass K J3 C' 1092 U AK8 Schwaxtzled the 9Q, takenby the king, and J10872 0 Q NOeJensen of Swedenimmediately went after hearts 4@2 8 K J 8 7 5 4 by '.eadingto his queen, losing to the king. Back A@6 camea spRdeto thequeen and king RlldSeligman 7 J7643 switchedto the4 Q,which Jensen took in dummy. 0 K4 WhenNile led anotherheart, Seiigmanthought he 4A93 had the trick with the 9 but Schwartzovertook with the ace to lead the 4 K and the 4 J. West diecaxdeda heaxtas NQs~ed andtried the 9A. ButSchwartz ruffed and led hie last heart, whichJensenduckedin dummyand ~ed in his hand. Nowhe led a diamond,andSchwartz made thekey play of ~g withthe 9, forcingthe ace. NQstried to cashthe N, butSeligman ruffed with the jack. Be thoughta while, then, sure of the count,led hie last spadeto takeout the last trump from bothdeclaxex and dummv Sodeclarex wae fox ced 'o Nve up the !aettrick to the 9 J for down two. I got a bigkick out of it when,after a disasteron Board24, Schwaxtzfix et apologizedto his partnex, then turned to me, the kibitzer, to apologize!, On Board 16 when the VK was the openinglead, Schwartz~ed. Seli~n madethe usual query "No hearts, partner P" and Schwartzanswered, "God.was not kind to me. " To which LHO countered, "God is always kind to Israeli " THOSEAGONOZING MATCHPGINT DECISIONS... Board18 of the fouxthquahfying session of the OpenPairs provided manyplayers with an agonizingmatchpoint decision; Dlr: East EAST SOUTH WEST NORTH Vul: N-S 4 10 7 Pass Pass 1 4 1 C 'VQJ3 Paes PRss Qbl. PRss A KQ2 Pass 3 NT AQ Pass IA93 4 K@54 At.some tables South dropped the 08 on the '0 A102 'V K4 CKopening lead, and North promptly shifted to 0 6 9 J 10 9 7 6 3 the VQ, NowdecwII rer could take the'VK and lead O'A K J 842 4 6 the @Ito makesure of three diamonds,three 4 J862 spades,,two hearts and two clubs. '0 98766 If he pjIiayedon clubsinstead, hoping to find the <} 84 Q-x-x onside, he would get 11 or 12 tricks. If the 0 9 3 club finessefailed andNorth failed to cashout,,a 3-3 club bx'eakwould still permit declarer to make 10 tricks, Thosewho greedily went aftex'the clubs were limited to three spades,thxee he"rts and two clubs, Downone ! No wonderSo many matchpoiint players wind up in the loony-bin! gc g $ y» g 4 4 g >ac