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Back in the Alt Routine This headline I have shamelessly stolen from Martin Cantor, BBO-commentator and writer in this bulletin. Because he is so right. Everything is running smoothly, results are up as soon as last table has finished, players are all at their best behaviour and top bridge capacity. Last Major Alt-winner, Gupta, has taken the lead after three solid wins, among them beating his wife in the opening match. Rumours say she will not file a police report, but he will be sleeping on the couch throughout the event. PRE-BULLETIN In second we findTHE TBD, ALTa young, talented team,Monday, and May 11, in2020 third Lombard, winners of the editor: Christina Lund Madsen MontreAlt Qualification. In fact none of the [email protected] are to be found among the bot- tom six teams.INVITATIONAL Let us see if they can keep it up.logistics: WeRosalind Hengeveld wish all of you a great fight today. MAY 11-15, 2020 big data: Joyce Tito

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- 3 - Victim of the Day Mustafa Cem Tokay by Christina Lund Madsen

Where do you come from, where do you live, my excercise stuff, small basketball court what is your job, do you have any educa- and a pool, I try to keep myself fit and play tion, boy/girlfriend, children (that you know a lot of online bridge. about)? What interests/hobbies do you have outside - I was born in Turkey, Istanbul. Now I live of bridge? in New York. Because of the pandemic I am in my summer house in Bodrum on - Not much. I am a boring person besides the west coast of Turkey. I play full time bridge. I love music, I like to go to concerts, bridge, that’s my job. Waiting for the right I like to travel all around the world. time to go back to New York. My new hobbie during the pandemic is I studied chemical engineering. I don’t excercising. have any children. I love to go to soccer games but not pos- sible anymore, and I am a big shopper. Give us the highlights of your bridge life. How did you begin to play, how did you Which country is closest to your heart and progress, where are you now? why?

- Bridge is my passion. I started to play - Always Italy. All my friends are there and when I was 9 and until today I only played it is the most beautiful country ever with bridge all my life. I remember many good the best food, best climate. And my second results. Many good tournaments. Now we favorite is Manhattan, New York, where I all miss the Nationals and other strong now live. events in Europe. I began when I was 9 years old cause my What is your worst habit? father was playing and my mum forced me to take bridge lessons. But I think I was - Shopping. ☺ pretty young to understand the game that age. When I became 18 I started again. How would your ex-girlfriends describe you And it became everything. I studied a lot, in three words? read a lot, played a lot. Then I met Alfredo Versace and my other - Charming , aloof and generous. Italian friends. This was a new challenge Maybe not all of them. ☺ for me and gave me a chance to improve my game. Now I know I play good. ☺ Do you have anywhere without tattoos that you would like to tell us about? How has your life been during corona? - No, all my tattoos are visible. ☺ Maybe - My life is ok during corona. I moved to the next one will be in some different part Bodrum, I have a huge garden here, I have of my body.

- 4 - Mustafa Cem Tokay

Max Rotaru’s question for you: Does Besiktas still have a soccer team and if not, what happens to all those supporters who tattooed the eagle on their arm?

- Hello Max, yes, we still exist. We com- municate online with each other. We are waiting for chaos days to come back in soccer. ☺

From which tournament do you have the best memories?

- Christina, you know the answer, I think. Copenhagen 2015 we had a great time. Great food and we won, what can be better?

When in your life were you most happy?

- I am happy when I play bridge, so let’s say all my life. If I come back to this world, I will play bridge again. Who would you like to partner, kiss, kill between your teammates Alfredo Versace, Which time of your life did you struggle the Antonio Sementa and Agustin Madala? most? - I partner Alfredo cause he knows how to - Well, it’s something continuous, once make the best out of his partners. you play bridge you should struggle to I kill Sementa cause he is too hard and improve. Now it is better for me, let’s say mad at the table. easier, but in previous years I struggled to I kiss Agustin because of his magically learn this game. made contracts.

If you could change something about your 15. Who should be the next victim in the past, what would it be? bulletin? Tell us something you would like to know about this person. I had a beautiful life and still have. Really can’t remember anything in my past that I - Alfredo can be a good victim. My ques- would like to change specifically. tion for him is which game he thinks he is Now we know we should be more careful better at, Barbu or Bridge. about our health and maybe I should be more careful in the past about my health.

- 5 - Nine Men's Morris

By Mark Horton

Nine Men's Morris is one of the games Closed Room which the computer has 'solved' in that with best play on both sides it must end in WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH a draw. That is never going to be the situ- Brenner Gower Villas Boas Apteker ation in bridge, as these two deals from — — — 1♦ the first round of the MontreALT aptly Pass 1♠ Pass 2♦ illustrate: Pass 3♣ Pass 3NT Board 3. Dealer South. EW Vul. All Pass

♠ A J 8 3 ♥ 8 6 West led the ♣3 and East won with the ♦ A J 5 jack and switched to the ♥Q. Declarer won ♣ K 8 6 4 with the ace and went after the diamonds, ♠ K 6 2 ♠ 10 9 5 4 losing the second round to West's queen. ♥ 5 4 3 ♥ Q J 10 7 When West returned the ♣2 declarer ♦ Q 6 2 ♦ 9 4 again played low from dummy (no doubt ♣ A 9 3 2 ♣ Q J 7 thinking that no-one leads from ace to ♠ Q 7 four against 3NT) and East won with the ♥ A K 9 2 queen and played the ♥J. Declarer ducked ♦ K 10 8 7 3 that, but East switched to a club West's ace ♣ 10 5 representing the setting trick and a gain of 11 IMPs. Open Room

WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH Fredin Ventin Gottlieb Pacareu Gary — — — 1♦ Gottlieb Pass 1♠ Pass 1NT Pass 3NT All Pass

West led the ♥5 and declarer took East's ten with the king, played a diamond to the ace and ran the jack to West's queen. He won the heart continuation, played the ♠Q, covered by the king and ace and cashed three diamonds. East pitched the ♥Q on the fourth round, so declarer took four tricks in the heart suit! With the ♣A onside he recorded +460.

- 6 - Diego Brenner

Board 4. Dealer West. All Vul.

♠ 10 9 3 ♥ A Q 7 ♦ A K Q 7 5 ♣ K 8 ♠ K Q 8 6 5 ♠ A J 7 2 ♥ K 5 ♥ 10 9 8 4 3 ♦ 8 2 ♦ 3 ♣ Q 9 5 2 ♣ 6 4 3 ♠ 4 ♥ J 6 2 ♦ J 10 9 6 4 ♣ A J 10 7

Open Room

WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH Fredin Ventin Gottlieb Pacareu WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH Pass 1♣* Pass 1♠* Brenner Gower Villas Boas Apteker Dble* 2♠* Dble 3♣ Pass 1♦ Pass 3♦ Pass 3♦ Pass 3♠ Pass 3NT Pass Pass Pass 4♦ Pass 5♣ Dble All Pass All Pass

What do you think West's double was 1♣ 2+♣, can have 5♦ asking for? Absent any agreement the 1♠ Transfer to 1NT answer is somewhere between a spade Dble Spades and your shortest suit/major. It might 2♠ Strong with clubs or 18-19 with a ♠ stopper make a good question on the bridge edi- tion of Pointless. No genius is required to appreciate that someone forgot something. Most likely it When East went with the ♥T declarer won was the 2♠ bid that was the culprit, but with the queen and cashed the diamonds. this was not the moment to enquire! East pitched three hearts, so declarer took the three tricks in the suit that were Closed Room: always there for +950 and a 16 IMP swing.

- 7 - Back in the Alt Routine By Martin Cantor

For the first match back after the short WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH summer break my co-commentator Peter Lorenzini V Gupta T Bessis M Bilde Lund wanted to kibitz his fellow coun- — — 1♠ Pass tryman Dennis Bilde, which had the added spice of it being the match between the 3♦* Pass 3♠* Pass teams Vinita and Gupta, captained by 4♠ All Pass wife and husband Vinita and Naren Gupta respectively. We didn’t have to wait long 3♦ limit in ♦ 3♠ natural forcing for the action to start. Morten Bilde attacked with the ♥J and Board 2. E / NS Bessis ruffed the third round, then played a small trump towards dummy’s ten, ♠ 83 ducked by South. A club to the ace was ♥ AQ754 followed by the ace and queen of trumps. ♦ Q942 South won, to switch to a diamond, a second diamond was cashed for a club ♣ Q8 discard, and declarer breathed in relief ♠ T N ♠ AQJ542 when the club queen popped up on the ♥ K92 W E ♥ 63 next round. ♦ AKT653 S ♦ 8 10 IMPs well deserved for getting to the ♣ T97 ♣ AKJ2 better game. ♠ K976 ♥ JT8 ♦ J7 Vinita Gupta ♣ 6543

WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH D Bilde de Wijs Jepsen Muller — — 1♠ Pass 1NT Pass 2NT* Pass 3♣* Pass 3♥* Pass 3NT All Pass

2NT 6♠ & 4 minor 16+ 3♣ ask 3♥ 16-18, 4♣

De Wijs led the ♥4 and everything depended on the spade finesse. Not today and a quick one down. In the other room:

- 8 - Out of the thirty-two tables twenty played WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH in 4♠, all except one making it, a couple Lorenzini V Gupta T Bessis M Bilde even making an overtrick. Ten played in Pass 1NT Pass 2♣ 3NT, just three making. The remaining two Pass 2♦* Pass 3♠* pairs stopped in 3♠. Pass 3NT All Pass Later in the match Gupta got another double digit gain for choosing a better With no double to guide him, Bessis had to game contract, helped in their choice by choose a lead from two unattractive minor Dennis Bilde’s double of a Stayman 2♣: suits. He chose a diamond after which declarer can even make an overtrick if she Board 12. W / NS gets everything right.

♠ KT4 Winning the first trick in dummy North ♥ AQ finessed in hearts, cashed the ace, and led ♦ K954 a second diamond. Bessis took his ace and ♣ A852 switched to the ♣6. ♠ 73 N ♠ Q962 ♥ K65 W E ♥ JT4 You might think that declarer is in big ♦ T63 S ♦ A72 trouble at this point, his weak point ♣ KT743 ♣ J96 attacked, and the ♥K an entry to the hand ♠ AJ85 with long clubs. Look more carefully, and ♥ 98732 you will see that the ♣8 in declarer’s hand, together with the J9 in East, block the suit. ♦ QJ8 ♣ Q Not having second sight Vinita ducked two rounds of clubs and took the third,

WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH discarding hearts from dummy, and had D Bilde de Wijs Jepsen Muller now reached this position with the lead in North, needing five more tricks: Pass 1NT Pass 2♣ Dbl Pass* Pass Rdbl ♠ KT4 Pass 2♦* Pass 3♠* ♥ — Pass 4♥ All Pass ♦ K9 ♣ 8 ♠ 73 N ♠ Q962 Pass shows a club stopper, nothing else. ♥ K W E ♥ J 2♦ no major 3♠ Smolen ♦ T S ♦ 7 With the trumps behaving and diamonds ♣ T7 ♣ — 3-3 there was nothing to the play and 11 ♠ AJ85 tricks resulted. ♥ 9 ♦ J ♣ —

- 9 - You have to find the queen of spades. A WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH point count tells you nothing, but the Lorenzini V Gupta T Bessis M Bilde distribution gives you some clues. When — — 1♣ Pass you cash the diamonds you find that they 1♦ 1♥ Dbl* 3♥ are 3-3, the opening lead thus from Axx. West has ♥Kxx(x). West still has the club Pass Pass Dbl Pass ten, and is favourite to hold the 13th club, 5♣ Pass ? because with JT9(x) Bessis would surely have led clubs, and even with J9xx he might have preferred that to a diamond. Dbl 1) decent hand with 3♥ or 2) 18-19 bal

All of which points to the spade length in What now? Pass or bid 6? You have an East. However declarer chose to play for awful lot to spare for your bidding to date. the queen in West, perhaps on the basis But you need partner to have an ace and a that with 5332-shape, East would have no good card somewhere else. Neither of our way to partner’s winners. So in the end Easts could resist and raised themselves two down and 13 IMPs for Mr. Gupta. to a slam that was just on a finesse. But a losing finesse, as you can see: Three others went down in 3NT while 20 made it. All seven in 4♥ made, as did the Board 14. E / None one North who unadventurously played 2♠. Nobody contrived to play 3NT by ♠ T653 South, where only the double dummy lead ♥ AKT75 of the ♣K would give you a headache. ♦ T64 ♣ J And so to the final board of the match. ♠ A4 N ♠ KQJ As dealer at love all, what would you open ♥ 963 W E ♥ 2 with this fine collection if not playing a ♦ J97 S ♦ AQ2 strong club or the like? ♣ T9752 ♣ AKQ843 ♠ 9872 ♠KQJ ♥ 2 ♦ AQ2 ♣ AKQ843 ♥ QJ84 Both Easts in our match chose 1♣ and soon ♦ K853 faced this problem: ♣ 6

WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH Six other tables were in the slam, the D Bilde de Wijs Jepsen Muller rest stopped in 5♣. If you want to see what happened, you can do so via the — — 1♣ Pass bridgeresults.org website. 1NT Pass 3♥* Pass 5♣ Pass ? One more hand for you, this time a Zia hand from the top of the table clash in 3♥ “shortness I think” round 3, Gupta versus Potter.

- 10 - Board 8. W / None

♠ T ♥ 76 ♦ 653 ♣ AKT9632 ♠ A92 N ♠ KQJ8653 ♥ T9 W E ♥ 82 ♦ QJ974 S ♦ T82 ♣ J54 ♣ 7 ♠ 74 ♥ AKQJ543 ♦ AK ♣ Q8

This was the auction in the closed room: Zia - forever junior

WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH Lorenzini Dwyer T Bessis Huang The one level opener on 7 HCP, combined Pass 3♣ Pass 4♥ with EW’s pre-empt and raise, left Naren Pass Pass 4♠ 5♥ Gupta with a tough problem at his second All Pass turn. In the end he took the mild gamble that his partner had a spade control, while leaving the possibility of a grand open. As you can see, Bessis nearly perpetrated a slam Biltcliffe Coup (that is, reopening an Of course Zia had nothing to add other auction to allow opponents to find their than repeat his long suit, and there they optimal, higher scoring spot). But he was played, making easily. In fact 13 tricks lucky when NS didn’t capitalise. were made at both tables when spades Dwyer must have considered raising with weren’t led at trick one. the spade control and two quick tricks, but from where he sat there could easily be In case you think bidding slam should be two losers. And so to Zia: easy for these world class players, even facing aggressive intervention, I can tell

WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH you that only seven NS pairs did bid slam, Demuy Zia Bathurst N Gupta and at two of those tables EW sacrificed in 6♠, which can go five off on best defence, Pass 1♣ 3♠ Dbl making it a phantom save. However it 4♠ 5♣ Pass 5♠* was only three down at one table and two down at the other, despite the best ope- Pass 6♣ All Pass ning lead of ♦A.

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AMATEURS BYRNES Hailong Ao hl123 Dori Byrnes bridgeitgal Franco Baseggio baseggio Adam Grossack Nevereast Ira Chorush Chorush Zachary Grossack Germs45 Jiang Gu Jiang_Gu Radu Nistor Radu_15 Alex Kolesnik Kolesnik Thomas Paske Thomas1000 Ai-Tai Lo aitail Max Rotaru Maxentius Harrison Luba hilto37 Andy Stark astark DONNER Per-Ola Cullin pocken BARNSLEY Gary Donner Gdonnersc1 Simon Cope copeyj Joe Grue joegrue Peter Crouch pitiful Marion Michielsen Lady007 Espene Erichsen espene Brad Moss brad Alexander Hydes itsgrim Cecilia Rimstedt cillar Richard Plackett hoofie Sandra Rimstedt Sandria

BLACK EDMONDS Andrew Black boggis Jodi Edmonds jodewagon David Gold dagold Piotr Gawrys badaud4 Phil King philking Michal Klukowski skrzat96 Andrew McIntosh mcintosh Ron Pachtmann ronpa Gunnar Hallberg rerack Joel Wooldridge firechief Simon Hult hultahult Piotr Zatoski dzeronimo

BRIDGE TOO FAR FEARLESS Peter Barczy beno b Oscar Nijssen Oscar2000 Daniel Gulyas gulyas Yael Topiol Top_33 Erez Hendelman E11 Tim van de Paverd Tim_p Gyorgy Kemeny kemeny Peter van Montfoort pjvm1970 Balazs Kotanyi Koti007 Frank Van Wezel Oeps Peter Trenka trp42 Rob Vd Bergh Rvdb Sam Amer Samer026 Hans Vergoed MrVeryGood Roefi Vilier Roefi BRIDGESCANNER Kevin Vreeswijk Kevinvrees Ricardo Westerbeek Ric4 Konrad Araszkiewicz konrad80 Andrei Arlovich goblin2000 FREDIN Boguslaw Gierulski bogier Alon Apteker alonap Krzysztof Kotorowicz przedpelk Jan Clemmensson jannec Apolinary Kowalski bambik Peter Fredin P_Fredin Jerzy Skrzypczak TXT Gary Gottlieb Garybrook Erikas Vainikonis bookie_lt Craig Gowan Craigy52 Vytautas Vainikonis vainikonis

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GILLIS ISRAEL OPEN Simon Gillis rayas78 Ilan Bareket bareket Erik Saelensminde skaal1 Michael Barel mich-b Boye Brogeland boye Ariel Braunstein rel49 Espen Lindqvist stevieg Ilan Herbst ilanh Mikael Rimstedt MikaelRim Ophir Herbst herbst Ola Rimstedt Olarim Assaf Lengy lengy Amir Levin amiri GRAND SUD Yaniv Zack Yanivz Bernard Cabanes Tonel34 Migry Zur Campanile migry Herve Fleury Juransson Marc Girollet Maxile KOEPPEL Pierre-Yves Guillaumin Pyg Lynne Greenberg Koeppel Lgkoeppel Jean-Jacques Palau Grozny06 Agustin Nicolas Madala Septiembre Gert-Jan Paulissen GJP1965 Antonio Sementa Ilaria75 Philippe Poizat Taziop Mustafa Cem Tokay Tokay1975 Pierre Saporta Papouchou Alfredo Versace Nevaio

GUPTA LESLIE Bauke Muller beukertje Mike Bell mickyb Simon de Wijs sm1 Michael Byrne mgb81 Cedric Lorenzini pierced Kieran Dyke woozle Zia Mahmood zia Tim Leslie culross66 Thomas Bessis malpaluche Ben Norton bechno Naren Gupta nareng

HUNGARY - GALIM Csaba Czímer csabi Péter Gál galim Gábor Macskásy macsek Péter Marjai wrek Csaba Szabó csaboka13 Tamás Szalka szalkat

ISRAEL Dan Israeli dan_ehh Oded Korczyn odedkor Rami Porat daring1 Oren Toledano orentol Aran Warszawski aran Assaf Yekutieli tol23 Ami Zamir zamir1 Ola Rimstedt

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LOMBARD MAUBERQUEZ Bert Geens Bert1986 Edouard Beauvillain edou2704 Rens Philipsen RensPh Philippe Chottin cholina Jamilla Spangenberg Jamilla Guillaume Fauconnier guillaumef Dennis Stuurman Uni_dennis Donatella Halfon atella Wouter van den Hove Woutte David Harari sarroumane Ruud Von Seida Boedhy Erick Mauberquez mauber Chris Westerbeek ChrisWes Emmanuelle Monod mafraise1 Dafydd Williams Dafyddwill Christophe Oursel chris3108 Jasper Williams Wjwilliams Dominique Pilon cap51 Vanessa Reess supersasa MACAVITY Kees Bakker Keesbak POTTER Pim Coppens pimcop Kevin Bathurst kmb24 Dennis Dewit Hyperon Vince Demuy okvince John Lesmeister Jlesme Kevin Dwyer kdwyer Gert-Jan Ros rosgjw Shan Huang precisebri Emile Schols Mkgnao John Hurd johnhurd Michel Schols Futuralis Cookie Potter ohceep Niels van Bijsterveldt nielsvbij Tim van den Bos Timvdb RED DEVILS Emiel Vandewiele blink128 Geert Arts stratreeg1 Sam Bahbout sambah Philippe Caputo caputo Philippe Coenraets philippeiv Steven de Donder pikarek Steve de Roos stevedr Zvi Engel hros Mike van der Vorst ratabar

RIPPEY Leonardo Cima 100dog Giovanni Donati Giova007 Alessandro Gandoglia gandalf15 Kamil Novak kamiln Mike Rippey radiators Marek Szymanowski qerk22

SELIGMAN David Bakhshi Bakhshi Bob Hamman TGBH3 Emma Sjöberg and Tommy Petra Hamman pete Bergdahl (Sweden Mixed) Hemant Lall hemantlall Seppo Sauvola zebutin Martin Seligman mseligman

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TBD Irene Baroni Princi Jacob Freeman Jacob04 Christophe Grosset Cri cri Finn Kolesnik Fkolesnik Daniel Lavee Thekid1 Anam Tebha Anamtebha

TRANSNATIONALS Martins Balodis MartinsLAT Kevin Gotink Kefman23 Ilze Mikelsone Mikjelsone Maria Mylläri lucky 7 Selena Pepic Selena96 Louise Selway joloiyse Florian Weiss Floon Jovana Zoranovic jovana_jjz

VENTIN Juan Carlos Diego Brenner dbrenner Ventin Carlos Fernandez Carlitosf Joaquin Pacareu paca1987 António Palma apalma Juan Carlos Ventin phave SWEDEN MIXED Miquel Vilas Boas mvboas Nils Åhlen ahlnil0 Frederic Wrang fly21 Tommy Bergdahl lingonback Anders Eriksson wew VINITA Daniel Eriksson 24659 Vinita Gupta vinita Eva Gunnarsson spaderdam1 Dennis Bilde ballebo-jr Malin Helin malhe Morten Bilde ballebo Fredrik Jarlvik freddy6 Soren Bune scb7 Emma Övelius emma sj Emil Jepsen emilos Ylva Pyykkö ylvur Tatyana Trendafilova tuti ZHAO Jing Liu Liujing Team "SWEICE" Choon Chou Loo bridgeboy Sverrir Armannsson Gauksi Danny Molenaar dannymo Jon Baldursson ICEBALDI Ricco van Prooijen riccovp Olof Bergström ZangMan Tim Verbeek timve Bjorn Fallenius bf88 Louk Verhees loukie Einar Gudjohnsen einarUSA Chen Zhao zhaochen Sigurbjorn Haraldsson bessi2 Birkir Jon Jonsson Birkirjon Mats Nilsland nilsland

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