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It's Fun to Be Usa 1 Co-ordinator: Jean-Paul Meyer – Chief Editor: Brent Manley – Editors: Mark Horton, Brian Senior & Phillip Alder – Layout Editor: Akis Kanaris – Photographer: Ron Tacchi Issue No. 3 IT’S FUN TO BE USATuesday, 1 2 October 2007 VUGRAPH MATCHES Round 7 (11.00-13.20) VG: Table 5 Indonesia - Egypt (BB) BBO 1: Table 8 Poland - USA 1 (BB) BBO 2: Table 26 England - USA 2 (VC) SWAN *: Table 3 Sweden - Italy (BB) OurGame: Table 11 China SMEG - Netherlands (BB) Round 8 (14.20-16.40) VG: Table 4 USA 1 - China SMEG (BB) BBO 1: Table 50 France - USA 2 (SB) In the control center for the vugraph show BBO 2: Table 7 Egypt - Norway (BB) SWAN: Table 11 Chinese Taipei - Sweden (BB) Six rounds into the qualifying stages of the three major OurGame: Table 24 Denmark - Brazil (VC) events, the teams designated USA 1 are atop the leader Round 9 (17.10-19.30) boards in each — the Bermuda Bowl, Venice Cup and Senior VG: Table 2 Brazil - Italy (BB) Bowl. BBO 1: Table 6 Indonesia - Netherlands (BB) In the Bermuda Bowl, USA 1 maintained their lead despite BBO 2: Table 25 France - USA 2 (VC) losing in round four to South Africa. They made up for it by SWAN: Table 46 Denmark - Sweden (SB) thumping Canada 81-38 and India 81-26 in the next two OurGame: Table 10 India - South Africa (BB) matches. * This match will be broadcast at 20.30 Chinese time Right behind the Americans as play starts today are Poland followed Norway and Italy, who put on a terrific show on vugraph on Monday. Norway prevailed 38-34. The top eight finishers at the end of the round-robin will Contents begin knockout play on Sunday. Each team has 15 matches Today’s Program . .2 to go. Nature Takes its Course . .3 In the Venice Cup, USA 1 remained undefeated, holding a Results . .4 lead of 6 victory points over USA 2. New Zealand lost two BB: New Zealand - Brazil Round 1 . .7 matches after starting out 4-0 but were third. Just 1 VP be- Championships Diary . .9 hind them are England. BB: China SMEG - Argentina Round 1 . .10 After losing their opening match in the Senior Bowl, Goulash . .13 USA 1 has recorded five straight blowouts to lead by 8 VPs VC: France - China Global Times Round 3 . .15 over Italy. Egypt is third, with USA 2 and Australia tied for Egypt - Poland Round 4 . .18 fourth-fifth. 38th WORLD TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Shanghai, China TODAY’S PROGRAM Bermuda Bowl Venice Cup ROUND 7 11.00 ROUND 7 11.00 Table Home Team Visiting Team Table Home Team Visiting Team 1 Brazil Argentina 21 China Global Times Japan 2 Japan Trinidad & Tobago 22 Croatia India 3 Sweden Italy 23 New Zealand Netherlands 4 Norway Chinese Taipei 24 France Germany 5 Indonesia Egypt 25 Egypt Argentina 6 New Zealand Pakistan 26 England USA 2 7 South Africa USA 2 27 USA 1 Indonesia 8 Poland USA 1 28 Jordan Denmark 9 India Ireland 29 South Africa Australia 10 Canada Australia 30 Guadeloupe Canada 11 China SMEG Netherlands 31 Brazil Philippines ROUND 8 14.20 ROUND 8 14.20 Table Home Team Visiting Team Table Home Team Visiting Team 1 South Africa Canada 21 USA 1 Guadeloupe 2 Australia India 22 Canada South Africa 3 Ireland Poland 23 Australia Jordan 4 USA 1 China SMEG 24 Denmark Brazil 5 Netherlands New Zealand 25 Philippines England 6 Pakistan Indonesia 26 USA 2 Egypt 7 Egypt Norway 27 Argentina France 8 USA 2 Argentina 28 Indonesia Japan 9 Italy Japan 29 Netherlands Croatia 10 Trinidad & Tobago Brazil 30 India China Global Times 11 Chinese Taipei Sweden 31 Germany New Zealand ROUND 9 17.10 ROUND 9 17.10 Table Home Team Visiting Team Table Home Team Visiting Team 1 Argentina Trinidad & Tobago 21 Japan India 2 Brazil Italy 22 China Global Times Netherlands 3 Japan Chinese Taipei 23 Croatia Germany 4 Sweden Egypt 24 New Zealand Argentina 5 Norway Pakistan 25 France USA 2 6 Indonesia Netherlands 26 Egypt Philippines 7 New Zealand USA 1 27 England Denmark 8 China SMEG Ireland 28 Brazil Australia 9 Canada USA 2 29 Guadeloupe Indonesia 10 India South Africa 30 South Africa USA 1 11 Poland Australia 31 Jordan Canada 2 29 September - 13 October 2007 38th WORLD TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Important notice TODAY’S You are reminded you that, due to se- curity measures to be taken tomorrow PROGRAM and the next day, entry to the venue will be difficult and may take some time. Please ensure that you bring your badge, and it is strongly recommended Senior Bowl that you arrive on site well before the normal time. ROUND 7 11.00 Table Home Team Visiting Team Nature Takes its Course by Mark Horton 41 USA 2 Brazil 42 India France One day a scorpion approached a frog along a river 43 Argentina Japan bank. 44 USA 1 Indonesia The scorpion asked, ‘Froggie, please give me a ride 45 Denmark Egypt across this wide river.’ The frog responded, ‘I would be a fool to do that. You 46 South Africa China Hong Kong will sting and paralyze me.’ 47 Germany Guadeloupe Said the scorpion, ‘Ridiculous! If I stung you then we 48 China Thailand would both drown.’ 49 Canada Australia Trusting the scorpion's logic the frog agreed and al- 50 New Zealand Poland lowed the scorpion onto his back as he swam out into 51 Italy Sweden the river. In the middle of the river the scorpion stung the frog. ROUND 8 14.20 As the frog convulsed from the scorpion sting and began to slip beneath the waters he looked back at the Table Home Team Visiting Team scorpion and said, ‘Why? Now we’ll both die?’ The scorpion answered, ‘Because I am a scorpion, and 41 Germany New Zealand it is my nature.’ 42 Poland Canada Bridge is, by its nature, a game of mistakes. Judge for 43 Australia China yourself who made the greatest error on this deal from 44 Thailand Italy R2 of the Venice Cup: 45 Sweden South Africa 46 China Hong Kong Denmark Board 5. Dealer North. N/S Vul. 47 Egypt USA 1 [– 48 Guadeloupe Brazil ] 7 6 4 3 2 49 Japan India { 10 9 5 50 France USA 2 } K 9 8 7 2 51 Indonesia Argentina [ A K Q 10 8N [ J 6 3 2 ] Q 9 ] A J W E ROUND 9 17.10 { A K Q J { 7 6 4 S Table Home Team Visiting Team } 6 3 } A Q 10 4 [ 9 7 5 4 41 Brazil France ] K 10 8 5 42 USA 2 Japan { 8 3 2 43 India Indonesia }J 5 44 Argentina Egypt 45 USA 1 Pakistan Was it the declarer playing in 6[ from the East hand who went down on a trump lead? 46 Denmark Sweden Or the pair who bid the East/West cards to 7[? 47 South Africa Thailand Or the declarer who, faced with the lead of the six of 48 Italy Australia hearts in 7[, rejected the double club finesse in favour 49 New Zealand Guadeloupe of cashing all her spade and diamond winners? 50 Canada Germany Or the defender who, having led the six of hearts, dis- 51 China Poland carded three low clubs to allow 7[ to make. 3 38th WORLD TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Shanghai, China RESULTS Bermuda Bowl ROUND 4 Ranking after 6 Rounds Home Team Visiting Team IMPs VPs 1 USA 1 133 1 Ireland Australia 22- 42 10- 20 2 Poland 112 2 USA 1 South Africa 10 - 37 9- 21 3 Norway 110 3 Netherlands Canada 50 - 32 18.5-10.5 4 Italy 108 4 USA 2 Japan 32 - 33 15- 15 5 Egypt Poland 27 - 15 18- 12 5 Argentina 101 6 Chinese Taipei China Smeg 19 - 46 9- 21 China SMEG 101 7 Italy New Zealand 50- 38 18- 12 7 Australia 99 8 Trinidad & Tobago Indonesia 24 - 69 5- 25 8 Brazil 95 9 Argentina Norway 34 - 42 13- 17 9 New Zealand 92 10 Brazil Sweden 48- 18 22 - 8 10 Netherlands 90.5 11 Pakistan India 47 - 14 23 - 7 11 South Africa 88.5 12 Indonesia 88 ROUND 5 Pakistan 88 Home Team Visiting Team IMPs VPs 14 Japan 85 15 Egypt 84 1 Japan Brazil 32 - 19 18- 12 2 Sweden Argentina 32- 69 6- 24 16 USA 2 81 3 Norway Trinidad & Tobago 37- 19 19- 11 17 Chinese Taipei 80 4 Indonesia Italy 19 - 49 8- 22 18 Canada 77.5 5 Australia USA 2 51 - 20 22- 8 19 Sweden 74 6 China Smeg Egypt 31 - 30 15- 15 20 Ireland 66.5 7 Poland Pakistan 75 - 26 25- 4 21 Trinidad & Tobago 59 8 India Netherlands 20- 28 13- 17 9 Canada USA 1 38 - 85 4- 25 22 India 56 10 South Africa Ireland 55 - 53 14.5-14.5 11 New Zealand Chinese Taipei 47 - 49 15- 15 ROUND 6 Home Team Visiting Team IMPs VPs 1 Australia South Africa 66- 25 24 - 6 2 Ireland Canada 42 - 49 14 - 16 3 USA 1 India 81 - 26 25 - 3 4 Netherlands Poland 32 - 47 12 - 18 5 Pakistan China Smeg 25- 54 8 - 22 6 USA 2 Brazil 17 - 46 8 - 22 7 Chinese Taipei Indonesia 32 - 38 14 - 16 8 Italy Norway 34- 38 14 - 16 9 Trinidad & Tobago Sweden 15 - 68 3 - 25 10 Argentina Japan 55 - 33 20 - 10 11 Egypt New Zealand 39- 61 10 - 20 4 29 September - 13 October 2007 38th WORLD TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS Venice Cup ROUND 4 Ranking after 6 Rounds Home Team Visiting Team IMPs VPs 1 USA 1 124 21 Australia Canada 34 - 35 15 - 15 2 USA 2 118 22 Denmark USA 1 37 - 72 7 - 23 3 New Zealand 115 23 Philippines Guadeloupe 47- 31 19 - 11 4 England 114 24 Indonesia Croatia 35 - 45 13 - 17 25 Argentina Jordan 40 - 22 19 - 11 5 Denmark 108 26 Germany Brazil 83 - 29 25 - 3 6 Germany 102 27 Netherlands England 27 - 39 12 - 18 7 India 98 28 India Egypt 59 - 34 21 - 9 8 France 95 29 Japan France 19- 37 11 - 19 9 Netherlands 93 30 China Global Times New Zealand 23 - 51 8 - 22 10 Egypt 88 31 USA 2 South Africa 41 - 20 20 - 10 11 Argentina 87 Japan 87 ROUND 5 13 China Global Times 85 Home Team Visiting Team IMPs VPs 14 Australia 84 Philippines 84 21 Croatia China Global Times 64- 38 21 - 9 22 New Zealand Japan 16 - 38 10 - 20 16 Croatia 83 23 France India 29 - 2 21 - 9 17 Indonesia 75 24 Egypt Netherlands 41- 3 24 - 6 18 Brazil 71 25 Canada Indonesia 32- 44 12 - 18 Canada 71 26 Brazil Argentina 16- 70 3 - 25 20 South Africa 70 27 Jordan USA 2 19 - 54 7 - 23 21 Guadeloupe 56 28 South Africa Philippines 45 - 22 20 - 10 29 Guadeloupe Denmark 3 - 82 0 - 25 22 Jordan 52 30 USA 1 Australia 69 - 20 25 - 4 31 England Germany 36- 23 18 - 12 ROUND 6 Home Team Visiting
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