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Bulletin 8 Friday, 20 July 2007 QUALIFYING RACES HOT UP The vugraph theatre - the only cool place in the Palazzo Italy had another good day in the Junior Series, taking a maximum against Austria then winning 18-12 against early leaders Norway. Netherlands, however, had a good win over France and crept a point closer in second VUGRAPH place. The battle for the qualifying places for next year’s World Champi- onships is hotting up. Italy leads with 338 VPs, from Netherlands 328.5, MATCHES Poland 311, Germany 308, Norway 298, Russia 291.5, Denmark 285, France 283, England 272. Poland is looking very good for the Schools Championship. Though the Poles lost the morning match 10-20 toTurkey, perhaps the performance of France - England (Schools) 10.00 the day from the Turks, 25 against Wales and 23 against Israel left them with Poland - Russia (Juniors) 14.00 a comfortable lead. Poland leads with 205 VPs, from England on 176, Swe- den 175, Norway 172, France 170, Bulgaria 166.5, and Germany 158.5. France - Norway (Juniors) 17.30 21st EUROPEAN YOUTH TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Jesolo, Italy JUNIOR TEAMS TODAY’S RESULTS PROGRAM ROUND 16 ROUND 18 Match IMP’s VP’s 1 DENMARK GREECE 1 CZECH REPUBLIC GREECE 66 - 34 22 - 8 2 RUSSIA HUNGARY 2 BELGIUM ROMANIA 51 - 54 14 - 16 3 GERMANY POLAND 3 ENGLAND SWEDEN 66 - 56 17 - 13 4 ITALY ENGLAND 4 POLAND SLOVAKIA 110 - 21 25 - 0 5 PORTUGAL BELGIUM 5 HUNGARY CROATIA 46 - 8 23 - 7 6 NETHERLANDS CZECH REPUBLIC 6 DENMARK TURKEY 47 - 14 22 - 8 7 FRANCE ROMANIA 7 RUSSIA LATVIA 57 - 39 19 - 11 8 GERMANY SCOTLAND 46 - 27 19 - 11 8 NORWAY SWEDEN 9 ITALY AUSTRIA 105 - 7 25 - 0 9 AUSTRIA SLOVAKIA 10 PORTUGAL NORWAY 44 - 58 12 - 18 10 SCOTLAND CROATIA 11 NETHERLANDS FRANCE 59 - 35 20 - 10 11 LATVIA TURKEY ROUND 17 ROUND 19 Match IMP’s VP’s 1 GREECE LATVIA 1 GREECE NETHERLANDS 15 - 61 6 - 24 2 TURKEY SCOTLAND 2 FRANCE PORTUGAL 27 - 39 13 - 17 3 CROATIA AUSTRIA 3 NORWAY ITALY 47 - 61 12 - 18 4 SLOVAKIA NORWAY 4 AUSTRIA GERMANY 29 - 59 9 - 21 5 SWEDEN FRANCE 5 SCOTLAND RUSSIA 17 - 75 4 - 25 6 ROMANIA NETHERLANDS 6 LATVIA DENMARK 15 - 49 8 - 22 7 CZECH REPUBLIC PORTUGAL 7 TURKEY HUNGARY 11 - 29 11 - 19 8 CROATIA POLAND 46 - 51 14 - 16 8 BELGIUM ITALY 9 SLOVAKIA ENGLAND 1 -107 0 - 25 9 ENGLAND GERMANY 10 SWEDEN BELGIUM 26 - 54 9 - 21 10 POLAND RUSSIA 11 ROMANIA CZECH REPUBLIC 26 - 78 5 - 25 11 HUNGARY DENMARK Today in History ROUND 20 At 10:56 p.m. EDT, July 20th 1969, American astronaut 1 BELGIUM GREECE Neil Armstrong, nearly 240,000 miles from Earth, speaks 2 ENGLAND CZECH REPUBLIC these words to millions listening and watching on television 3 POLAND ROMANIA at home: 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for 4 HUNGARY SWEDEN mankind.' A moment later, he stepped off the lunar landing module Eagle, and became the first human to walk on the 5 DENMARK SLOVAKIA surface of the moon. Another astronaut, Edwin Buzz Aldrin, 6 RUSSIA CROATIA joined him a few minutes later, and together they took pho- 7 GERMANY TURKEY tographs of the terrain, planted a U.S. flag, ran a few simple scientific tests, and, the next day, departed. The astronauts 8 ITALY LATVIA left behind a plaque that read: 'Here men from the planet 9 PORTUGAL SCOTLAND Earth first set foot on the Moon - July 1969 A.D. - We came 10 NETHERLANDS AUSTRIA in peace for all mankind.' 11 FRANCE NORWAY 2 11-21 July 2007 21st EUROPEAN YOUTH TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS SCHOOLS TEAMS TODAY’S RESULTS PROGRAM ROUND 8 ROUND 11 Match IMP’s VP’s 1 LATVIA GERMANY 1 FRANCE LATVIA 75 - 20 25 - 4 2 BULGARIA WALES 2 CZECH REPUBLIC ISRAEL 37 - 34 16 - 14 3 NORWAY POLAND 3 HUNGARY NORWAY 21 - 69 5 - 25 4 ISRAEL ITALY 4 SWEDEN BULGARIA 47 - 51 14 - 16 5 FRANCE ENGLAND 5 DENMARK GERMANY 63 - 63 15 - 15 6 NETHERLANDS WALES 96 - 18 25 - 1 6 CZECH REPUBLIC TURKEY 7 TURKEY POLAND 48 - 23 20 - 10 7 HUNGARY NETHERLANDS 8 ENGLAND ITALY 59 - 38 19 - 11 8 SWEDEN DENMARK ROUND 9 ROUND 12 Match IMP’s VP’s 1 TURKEY LATVIA 1 LATVIA HUNGARY 35 - 30 16 - 14 2 ENGLAND NETHERLANDS 2 SWEDEN CZECH REPUBLIC 68 - 25 24 - 6 3 ITALY DENMARK 3 DENMARK FRANCE 42 - 70 9 - 21 4 POLAND SWEDEN 4 NETHERLANDS ISRAEL 45 - 24 19 - 11 5 WALES HUNGARY 5 TURKEY NORWAY 22 - 46 10 - 20 6 GERMANY CZECH REPUBLIC 6 ENGLAND BULGARIA 37 - 40 14 - 16 7 ITALY GERMANY 47 - 54 14 - 16 7 BULGARIA FRANCE 8 POLAND WALES 129 - 15 25 - 0 8 NORWAY ISRAEL ROUND 10 ROUND 13 Match IMP’s VP’s 1 LATVIA NORWAY 1 DENMARK LATVIA 43 - 46 14 - 16 2 ISRAEL BULGARIA 2 NETHERLANDS SWEDEN 61 - 37 20 - 10 3 FRANCE GERMANY 3 TURKEY HUNGARY 69 - 53 18 - 12 4 CZECH REPUBLIC WALES 4 ENGLAND CZECH REPUBLIC 56 - 76 11 - 19 5 HUNGARY POLAND 5 ITALY FRANCE 49 - 66 11 - 19 6 POLAND ISRAEL 58 - 18 23 - 7 6 SWEDEN ITALY 7 WALES NORWAY 8 -118 0 - 25 7 DENMARK ENGLAND 8 GERMANY BULGARIA 45 - 51 14 - 16 8 NETHERLANDS TURKEY Today’s Schedule Closing Ceremony 10.00 Schools Teams, Round 11 Full details of the program for Saturday 10.00 Junior Teams, Round 18 evening will be given later but, for now, 14.00 Schools Teams, Round 12 please note that the Closing Ceremony will be held at 1900, 7-00 pm, and not as 14.00 Junior Teams, Round 19 shown in the official program. The venue 17.30 Schools Teams, Round 13 remains the theatre across the road 17.30 Junior Teams, Round 20 where the Opening Ceremonies were held. 3 21st EUROPEAN YOUTH TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Jesolo, Italy JUNIOR TEAMS Young talent! by GeO Tislevoll RANKING AFTER ROUND 17 This nice play happened in Norway's (Schools) match against neighbours Denmark Fiftteen year old Harald Eide (Norway), brother of Petter Eide who is playing for 1 ITALY 338 the Norwegian Junior Team, showed good card playing 2 NETHERLANDS 329,5 technique. 3 POLAND 311 Schools Round 2. Board 18. Dealer East. N/S Vul. 4 GERMANY 308 [2 5 NORWAY 298 ] K Q 10 7 6 RUSSIA 291,5 { A Q 10 5 7 DENMARK 285 } A 8 4 2 8 FRANCE 283 [ A J 8N [ K 10 9 7 4 3 ] A J 4 ] 5 2 9 ENGLAND 272 W E { K 9 2 { J 4 10 CZECH REPUBLIC 258,5 } J 9 5 3S } Q 7 6 11 LATVIA 251 [ Q 6 5 12 BELGIUM 248 ] 9 8 6 3 13 SWEDEN 247,5 { 8 7 6 3 14 HUNGARY 242 }K 10 15 TURKEY 235,5 16 CROATIA 230 East had opened a weak Two Spades, and Eide (South) found himself in Four Hearts. West had raised to Three 17 PORTUGAL 213 Spades, and North had doubled this to get South into the 18 GREECE 210 game. West led the ace of spades and intelligently con- 19 SCOTLAND 204 tinued the suit — trying to promote his heart jack. 20 ROMANIA 191 The contract seems very difficult to fulfill, but Eide made ten tricks in about the same number of seconds! He sim- 21 AUSTRIA 148,5 ply threw a diamond from dummy to the second trick, and 22 SLOVAKIA 144 East won it with the king. Then a third round of the suit, and South won the queen discarding another diamond from dummy. Now South played a trump. West played low, SCHOOLS TEAMS and North's king won. Eide had no problems arranging for two club ruffs in hand, with the trump eight and nine, and ROUND 10 also taking the diamond finesse along the way. RANKING AFTER After the last club ruff he played a second round of trumps towards dummy, and escaped with only one trump 1 POLAND 205 loser as well. At the other table Norway were allowed to 2 ENGLAND 176 play in Three Spades, minus two, meaning this nice play of 3 SWEDEN 175 the young talent was worth 11 IMPs to his team. 4 NORWAY 172 5 FRANCE 170 Appeal Hearing 6 BULGARIA 166,5 Following an incident in the vugraph room where a non- 7 GERMANY 158,5 playing captain complained about partisan behaviour of a 8 DENMARK 154 member of an Appeals Committee that earlier had ruled 9 LATVIA 148 against the team of that n.p.c., and the reaction from the member of staff that this called his integrity into question, a 10 ISRAEL 146 hearing was held where misunderstandings were cleared up 11 NETHERLANDS 142 and the two parties shook hands. 12 TURKEY 133,5 Your attention is drawn to the regulation requiring deci- sions of Tournament Directors, Appeals Committees and 13 ITALY 127 Tournament Officials to be accepted in a sportsmanlike man- 14 CZECH REPUBLIC 126 ner, and also to the obligation of EBL staff to restrain any par- 15 HUNGARY 113 tisan behaviour that might be misconstrued. 16 WALES 3 Patrick Jourdain, Chairman of Appeals 4 11-21 July 2007 21st EUROPEAN YOUTH TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS SCHOOLS TEAMS ROUND 7 BULGARIA v DENMARK As the Schools Championship approached the half-way Had South chosen to bid 3[, his partner would have point, Bulgaria and Denmark were both just outside the responded 4] and that contract is cold.
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