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Monaco Welcomes the Cavendish Vi Sous le Haut Patronage de SAS le Prince Albert II de Monaco MONACO WELCOMES THE CAVENDISH VI C I A V V E H N D I S 3 - 8 FEBRUARY 2019 DDailyaily BBulletinulletin Vincent Labbé, Coordinator, Editor www.cavendish.bridgemonaco.com Philippe Cronier, Editor www.facebook.com/cavendishmonaco/ Francesca Canali, Layout & Social Media Editor, Photographer @CavendishMonaco THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7th 2019 Issue No 5 ALL OF FAME CONTENTS CLICKABLE ON WEB From the auction Results p. 2 65 pairs and a myriad of stars were in the starting blocks early in the(ir) morning, all of them eager to reach for the moon. The Grossack p. 3 The two Karim, Nabil and Salam, from Egypt, started like a rocket, taking the In the midst of the Battle p. 4 lead at the end of the first session. Ten boards later, strong contenders to the title replaced them on the top: the eternal Zia Mahmood and the well-named David It’s more fun to compete p. 5 Gold. But after three rounds, the Frenchmen Philippe Soulet and Hervé Vinciguerra, How to Bilde an endplay p. 6 newest winners of the Teams event, were now leading the field, driven by a favourable wind. Overturning the odds p. 6 As the tournament is still in its early stages, it comes and goes. During the fouth session, the Norwegians Glenn Groetheim, winner of the Blind spots p. 7 Bermuda Bowl in 2007, and Petter Tondel, led most of the time, before the last two deals overturned the ranking. Remember, our two Karim from the early morning… They ended up in a rush to accumulate an impressive total of 2123 SCHEDULE points. A pair of Dutchmen, Louk Verhees and Ricco van Prooijen, winners of the Bermuda Bowl at home (Veldhoven, 2011), surged from tenth to second place, 10.00 - 11.30 10 boards winning nearly a thousand points in ten boards! 11.45 - 13.15 10 boards In the fifht and last session of the day, the flying Dutchmen irresistibly took off BREAK with a total of 2710 points at mid-term of the qualification stage. At a certain 14.45 - 16.15 10 boards distance followed Levin-Roll and Soulet-Vinciguerra. th 16.30 - 18.00 10 boards Best mixed pair so far : May Sakr et Michel Eidi (10 ). 18.15 - 19.45 10 boards Cavendish VI Monaco, 3rd-8th February 2019 CAVENDISH PAIRS - RESULTS Imps 1 2710 VAN PROOIJEN Ricco VERHEES Louk 2 2427 LEVIN Amir ROLL Josef 3 2055 SOULET Philippe VINCIGUERRA Herve 4 1872 NABIL Karim SALAMA Karim 5 1756 CARROLL John HANLON Tom 6 1692 BRUUN Mathias SCHAFFER Lauge 7 1662 GROETHEIM Glenn TONDEL Petter 8 1601 GOLD David MAHMOOD Zia 9 1452 BESSIS Thomas MECKSTROTH Jeff 10 1404 EIDI Michel SAKR May M 11 1310 GAWRYS Piotr KLUKOWSKI Michal 12 1082 KHOKHLOV Jouri MATUSHKO Georgy 13 1071 PALMA Antonio WRANG Frederic 14 1025 MULTON Franck ZIMMERMANN Pierre 15 1006 BERTHEAU Peter BLACK Andrew 16 954 LANTARON Luis PIEDRA Fernando 17 929 HOP Jacco WORTEL Meike M 18 550 OLANSKI Woycech VAINIKONIS Vytautas 19 540 DRIJVER Bob NAB Bart 20 521 DEMUY Vincent HURD John 21 443 GROSSACK Adam GROSSACK Zachary 22 419 BILDE Dennis MADALA Agustin 23 415 DE WIJS Simon MULLER Bauke 24 393 PSZCZOLA Jacek WIGODER Charles 25 382 HOFTANISKA Thor MALINOWSKI Artur 26 358 BOMPIS Marc D’OVIDIO Catherine M 27 338 BRENNER Diego VILLAS-BOAS Miguel 28 192 KHIUPPENEN Yury KHOLOMEEV Vadim 29 144 KING Phil MCINTOSH Andrew 30 131 DANAILOV Diyan STAMATOV Jerry 31 130 HALLBERG Gunnar PATTERSON Derek 32 87 BIRMAN Alon WINKLER Gabor 33 13 ABECASSIS Michel CRONIER Philippe 34 -36 MORARU Dan TEODORESCU Cornel 35 -59 LAUSS Wolfgang WERNLE Sascha 36 -67 DIKHNOVA Tatiana KRASNOSELSKIY Mikhail M 37 -92 MAUBERQUEZ Erik OURSEL Christophe 38 -99 DELLE CAVE Giuseppe GOLFARELLI Vittorio 39 -182 APTEKER Alon GOWER Craig 40 -207 D’AVOSSA Mario DI BELLO Stelio 41 -209 FILIPOWICZ Dominic MARTENS Krzysztof 42 -281 ZATORSKI Piotr ZMUDA Justyna M 43 -313 RIMSTEDT Mikael RIMSTEDT Ola 44 -338 BELLICAUD Luc LE LEZ Victor 45 -451 NARKIEWICZ Gregorz TUCZYNSKI Piotr 46 -575 ORLOV Sergey RUDAKOV Evgeni 47 -611 LAURIA Lorenzo VERSACE Alfredo 48 -736 ARLOVICH Andrey VAINIKONIS Erikas 49 -742 MENDES De SPRINKHUIZEN Thibo 50 -841 GROMOV Andrey GULEVICH Anna M 51 -870 EKENBERG Simon HULT Simon 52 -920 SAPORTA Pierre SAPORTA Renata M 53 -974 ANDERSSON Gunnar HEBERT Noomi M 54 -999 BROGELAND Boye GILLIS Simon 55 -1073 KILJAN Veri TIJSSEN Luc 56 -1218 CAPUCHO Manuel LARA Joao M 57 -1298 BARONI Irene DELIMPALTADAKIS Nikos M 58 -1555 LORENZINI Cedric VENTIN Juan-carlos 59 -1572 BENOIT Alain GAVIARD Daniele M 60 -1642 BAKHSHI David SELIGMAN Martin 61 -1772 ANDRESEN Martin HELNESS Fredrik 62 -2032 LUPU Smaranda LUPU M M 63 -2212 EDGTTON Nabil LUND Madsen M 64 -2218 MAAMARBACHI Clement VROUSTIS Vassilis 65 -2374 FRONTAURA Frankie MADALA Adolfo 2 Monaco, 3rd-8th February 2019 Cavendish VI THE GROSSACK: WARRIORS BROS by Vincent Labbé Adam and Zachary Grossack are part of the new You are champions and bridge teachers. Can you generation of American top bridge players. In a team have both careers at the same time? Which one called “War of roses”, they won the junior title at the would you prefer? World Bridge Youth Championships in Atlanta (Aug A: The question is super relevant now more than ever 2013). Adam is 27 (his birthday was duly celebrated because we just got a cycle deal and the team configuration during the Pairs auction!) and Zach is 21. They live is still to be determined. Of course everyone who could in the Boston be one would prefer to be a champion, that’s where all area. The two the glory is. I love the game of bridge and have several brothers are students whom I am passionate about teaching. I taught known to create Zach everything he knows, after all. In all seriousness, I do a lot of action at think that I will be able to balance both careers. Mentoring the table. students who have undeveloped skills can be very rewarding To kibitz them when you see them getting better. is a constant Z: I think it is certainly viable to do both. The great part entertainment, about being a bridge professional is that allows you a lot but cardiac more significant gaps in time between tournaments than a should refrain. traditional job. I particularly like teaching larger groups - I did a good amount of that in 2018. Your mother Something I want to do in the future is work with Jori, your first teachers and propose a shift from the somewhat rigid teacher and fan, way bridge players are taught nowadays. I prefer a more call you “mind conceptual route; for example, the students I teach at my athletes”. club at University learn concepts of declarer play before any What is your bidding at all. The beauty about using robots to help teach approach of the is that they explain what all their bids mean already! game? Adam (A): I work The competition to integrate the big teams into hard at the table and the Nationals is very fierce. How are things going Adam blows out the candles try to keep an open for you so far? mind. I try not to A: We have been quite fortunate so far to meet our be a robot. We really do play the game like a sport and can current sponsor, Larry Lebowitz. Larry is a talented bridge be very creative and flexible in our bidding techniques. Zach player already and rapidly improving. He is a successful especially is super creative at the table and I always work money manager and former CEO. I enjoy working with him hard to make sure I am not spoiling his creativity. It’s hard to sharpen his skills. We have a team for the “2019 cycle” work since he often doesn’t have what I expect! I try to be which includes the 3 nationals. The team consists of Larry, a good partner and move on from mistakes. Zach, me, Michael Rosenberg, Johan Upmark and Fredrik Zachary (Z): We like to be dynamic. Rigidity really is not Nystrom. my thing. Adam has his spots too ;) Z: Cannot complain! Adam, you once said that your main bridge Are you involved in ACBL’s actions to recruit accomplishment is “weathering the Zach Grossack young bridge players? Tell us a little more about storm”. You play the role of the lightning rod? youth group sponsorship in the United States.... A: Anyone who plays with or against Zach knows A: I would love to continue my efforts to get involved. that he is a special player. We can’t build him up too Zach and I are eager to increase our digital presence maybe much because we don’t want him getting an ego, but… with a youtube page to reach younger people. We both he’s pretty darn good. I have my spots sometimes too founded bridge teams at our respective Universities… and have learned so much from his creative techniques, Adam @ Brandeis University and Zach at Tufts University. especially at matchpoints. I try to be an excellent partner The teams have competed in some of the editions of and compliment his skillset with practical, thoughtful the collegiate bridge championships during the Summer bidding and excellent card play. The emotional side can NABC. We are also members of the New England Youth be challenging when we have mistakes but we’re working Bridge organization and have taught bridge in schools.
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