THE INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE PRESS ASSOCIATION Editor: John Carruthers

This Bulletin is published monthly and circulated to around 400 members of the International Bridge Press Association comprising the world’s leading journalists, authors and editors of news, books and articles about , with an estimated readership of some 200 million people BULLETIN who enjoy the most widely played of all card games. www.ibpa.com Bulletin No. 582 July 13, 2013

President: PATRICK D JOURDAIN Editorial 8 Felin Wen, Rhiwbina Cardiff CF14 6NW, WALES, UK May-June has to be the favourite time of the year for fans of serious bridge. Trials (44) 29 2062 8839 are held in all eight WBF Zones to determine World Championship qualifiers. [email protected] Since the European qualification process takes place in even-numbered years Chairman: nowadays, this year we also had the European Open Championships, an event PER E JANNERSTEN modelled after the Rosenblum/World Open Pairs Championships and now copied Banergatan 15 SE-752 37 Uppsala, SWEDEN by many other Zones. Most of these events, with some of the more-interesting (46) 18 52 13 00 boards, are reported here. [email protected] Last month we were critical of the WBF‘s policy of denying a place in the Bermuda Executive Vice-President: JAN TOBIAS van CLEEFF Bowl or to NBOs not taking part in the Olympiad. The Jamaican Prinsegracht 28a women were the latest to run afoul of the regulation preventing participation 2512 GA The Hague, NETHERLANDS and we predicted it would not be long before this happened again. Little did we (31) 70 360 5902 realise that the prediction would come true within 24 hours. The Bahrain Open [email protected] Team staged a minor upset, defeating Bangladesh in the semifinals of the BFAME Organizational Vice-President & (WBF Zone 4 – Asia and the Middle East) Trials to qualify, with India, for the Bulletin Production Manager: DILIP GIDWANI . Except … well, you know the story. 401 Mariden, 16th Road Bandra West Mumbai 400 050, INDIA Furthermore, we are reliably informed (by Ron Klinger) that several teams (French (91) 22 98205 47150 Fax: 22 26002241 Polynesia, New Caledonia and perhaps Vanuatu, although the latter is not a member [email protected] of the WBF anyway) did not participate in the Zone 7 (South Pacific) Trials solely Secretary: because they would be ineligible for Bali in the (admittedly unlikely) event that HERMAN DE WAEL they qualified (Australia and New Zealand being the powers of the Zone). Michel Willemslaan 40 B-2610 Wilrijk, BELGIUM The WBF could remedy this situation, but it would require drastic and immediate (32) 3 827 64 45 Fax: (32) 3 825 29 19 action. Here’s one solution: (i.) repeal the regulation retroactively and (ii.) allow [email protected] the Jamaican Women’s Team and the Bahraini Open Team to compete in Bali. Since Treasurer: that would produce an unwieldy 23 teams in each event, admit one more team in RICHARD SOLOMON 308 Kauri Road, RD2 each series from Europe. That would result in Israel, the seventh-place finisher Tuakau 2697, NEW ZEALAND from Dublin last year, playing in the Bermuda Bowl and Austria, the eighth-place (64) 9 232 8494 team in the Women’s, qualifying for the Venice Cup. Why the eighth-place team? [email protected] Sweden, the team that finished seventh is already going, courtesy of Israel’s Membership Secretary: withdrawal. The expansion to 24 teams would produce no grief for anyone, would JEREMY DHONDY build some goodwill and would make four teams very happy. It would require only Cedar Lodge, Knapps, Shillingstone Dorset DT11 0RA, ENGLAND a minor adjustment to scheduling that could be accomplished with four 16- (44) 7967 475925 matches on two of the seven qualifying days - not too onerous a regimen. [email protected] There is a fly in the ointment, however. The reason for Israel’s withdrawal from Honorary General Counsel: WILLIAM J. PENCHARZ the Venice Cup seems to be purely political. Indonesia does not recognize Israel as Lacourarie, Barthelemy de Bussière a sovereign nation and had been delaying their approval to enter the country and 24360 Piegut Pluvier, FRANCE any discussion of security for their players. With pressure on Israel to declare its +33(0)5 53 60 30 60 [email protected] intentions, Israel felt that withdrawal was its only option. So, even if the WBF were to permit a seventh team from Europe in the Bermuda Bowl, it would Awards Secretary: BARRY J. RIGAL apparently not be Israel. European qualifiers for the Bermuda Bowl are Monaco, Apt 8E, 22 West 26th Street, Netherlands, Italy, England, Poland and Germany. If Israel did not accept an invitation New York NY 10010, USA to play, can you guess who’s next in line? Yes...Sweden. (1) 212 366 4799 [email protected] Address all IBPA Bulletin correspondence to: JOHN CARRUTHERS Presidents Emeritii: 1322 Patricia Blvd., Kingsville, Ontario, N9Y 2R4, CANADA TOMMY SANDSMARK (NORWAY) Tel: +1 519-733-9247 HENRY FRANCIS (USA) email: [email protected]

1 2. ARGENTINA: Elkin, Irene – Smalinsky, Analia – Previde, Cecilia – Rueda, María José – Espiasse, Matilde – Llauro, Maria Susana SENIORS 1. BRAZIL: Silva Neto, J. de Deus – Barcellos, Eduardo – D’Orsi, Ernesto – Marchioni, Antonio- Aranha, Sergio – Magalhaes, Amilcar 2. ARGENTINA: Madala, Adolfo – Alfonsin, Julio – Baldassarre, Monica – Alonso, Ana Maria – Orzabal, Alejandro – Cardoni, Ricardo It seems fitting that we should show a couple of deals featuring Leonardo Rizzo - 18 years ago, Rizzo travelled to Bali as part of the Argentine Youth team to take rd part in the 1995 World Youth Bridge Championship. 63 SOUTH AMERICANS However, because of being a few days past his 26th Angra dos Reis, Brazil, May 25-June 1, 2013 birthday, he was not allowed to participate and had to Fernando Lema & Ana Roth, return home without playing a single card. This year, as Buenos Aires part of the team that represented Argentina in the South American Bridge Championships, Rizzo not only This year, the first event of the South American won the title of South American Champion, but he Championships was the Gabino Cintra Cup - a pairs also won the right to represent South America in the event so-named in honour of one of the best-ever next World Bridge Championships in Bali. South American players. The winners were Mauricio Figueiredo and Marcos Toma of Brazil. Second place Here are a couple of the deals where Rizzo’s good went to Guilherme Junqueira-Renato Fernandes from decisions helped to score points for his team: Brazil and third were Pablo Lambardi-Nano Rizzo of Argentina v. Ecuador Argentina. Board 23. Dealer South. Both Vul. The Teams Championship to qualify for Bali began with [ K Q 9 3 a double round robin qualifying stage, the top four ] J 10 7 4 team playing a knockout. In the Open category, the { A Q 4 3 winner of the round robin was Argentina, which also }J won its semifinal versus Columbia. The other semi- [ 10 8 6 [ J 7 5 4 2 final was Brazil versus Chile. This 90-board match was ]— ]K 6 5 very close until the last set, when Brazil finally won { J 10 9 8 7 { — and achieved the first objective, qualification for the } A K Q 9 8 } 10 5 4 3 2 Bermuda Bowl. In the final, Argentina showed their best [A form and although the score remained close, they ] A Q 9 8 3 2 never trailed in the match, so after eight years of { K 6 5 2 waiting, Argentina is once again the South American }7 6 Open Team Champion. West North East South Lambardi Serrano R. Rizzo Serrano J. In the Ladies and Seniors, Argentina and Brazil met in ———1] the final, with Brazil winning in both categories. The 2NT 4} 5} 5] qualifiers were: Pass 6{ Double 6] OPEN Pass Pass Pass 1. ARGENTINA: Alujas, Gabino – Ravenna, Pablo – All four players were faced with close decisions in the Rizzo, Leonardo – Lambardi, Pablo – Camberos, Hector bidding. South’s opening bid seems clear-cut. West’s – Pellegrini, Carlos decision to employ the with three 2. BRAZIL Campos, João-Paulo – Villas Boas, Miguel – cards in spades instead of a need not Figueiredo, Mauricio – Toma, Marcos – Brenner, Diego have worked so well. North’s was – Sabbag, Ricardo descriptive and East’s five clubs was aggressive, but WOMEN’S normal. With poor holdings in both minor suits, South 1. BRAZIL: Pain, Leda – Vargas, Isabella – David, Paula might have doubled five clubs or passed the decision – Nogueira, Heloisa – Mandelot, Agota – Figueira de to North, but with an extra heart, he took the Mello, Sylvia aggressive path.

2 North’s decision to cuebid six diamonds was probably would play a day-and-a-half round robin to determine too aggressive given that South had bid five hearts the final four knockout spots. The winner of that and had not himself cuebid. His six-diamond bid gave knockout would be USA1 in the Bermuda Bowl, Rizzo, East, the opportunity to double to suggest a lead. coming up in September in Bali. The lead was indeed a diamond, resulting in two down. Teams losing in the USA1 knockout would be Even if North had contented himself with six hearts, relegated to a second knockout bracket to determine a by East would have meant the same the USA2 team for Bali with the losing USA1 finallist two off. In the other room Argentina played five hearts going directly to the final of the USA2 bracket. making. USA1 QF. Diamond v Kranyak Argentina v. Chile Board 20. Dealer West. Both Vul. Board 3. Dealer South. EW Vul. [8 6 4 [ K Q 3 ] A Q 10 9 4 3 ] A 7 5 3 2 {6 2 {7 3 2 }9 3 }J 10 [ A 10 5 [ Q 9 3 2 [ J 5 [ A 10 9 8 4 ]J ]K 7 5 2 ]K 9 ] 8 { 10 7 5 4 { A Q { A K Q 8 6 { J 10 4 } A 8 7 5 4 } K Q 2 } A K 8 2 } 9 6 5 3 [K J 7 [7 6 2 ]8 6 ] Q J 10 6 4 { K J 9 8 3 {9 5 } J 10 6 }Q 7 4 West North East South After Pellegrini (West) opened two notrump, Pellegrini- Diamond Dwyer Platnick Bathurst Camberos from Argentina arrived in three notrump Kranyak Greco Wolpert Hampson and scored plus 600. Henry Bethe, the BBO Pass 2] 2NT Pass commentator, asked: “Do you open two notrump or 3NT Pass Pass Pass one diamond?” In the other room… Both Souths led the heart eight, and both Norths West North East South played the queen, ducked. Both Norths switched to a B. Robles Lambardi Pacareu Rizzo diamond through the queen to the king, and both — — — Pass Souths played a low diamond back to declarer’s ace. 1{ 1] Double 4] 5} Pass Pass Pass At this point, things diverged. Wolpert led the spade deuce toward the ace-ten-five in dummy. When Benjamin Robles chose to open his hand with a one- Hampson played the seven, Wolpert inserted the ten diamond bid, which gave Lambardi enough space to and it held the trick... Wolpert played off five rounds show his heart suit. After Pacareu’s double, Rizzo, at of clubs, squeezing and endplaying South painfully. favourable vulnerability, made Chile choose at the five [8 6 level. The final contract was one down, resulting in a ] A 10 9 swing of 12 IMPs to Argentina. {— }— [A 5 [Q 9 ]— ]K 7 5 { 10 7 { — }8 }— [K J ]6 USBF TRIALS - May 30-June 11 {J 9 Suzy Subeck, Chicago }— Sixteen teams entered the 2013 Trials. The format was When the last club was cashed in the five-card ending, complicated by the fact that the top two seeds, Fleisher Hampson could not afford a discard in any suit.: a spade and Nickell, by dint of high finishes in the major NABC pitch would have allowed two spade tricks, a diamond Knockouts ( and Vanderbilt), had byes to the would have allowed declarer to set up a diamond in quarterfinals. The next eight seeds would go directly dummy, and finally, a heart pitch would have allowed to the Round of 16 matches. The remaining six teams

3 declarer to him in diamonds or spades to lead from queen-nine-eight either. Or perhaps he surrender a trick in the other suit. reasoned that the lead of the club queen marked North with at most the king of clubs and that the At the other table, Platnick led the spade queen at double was to discourage a lead. Whatever the trick four. Bathurst covered with the king and Platnick logic, it worked and Rosenberg came home with 13 won with the ace. Declarer, now set up for defeat, tricks. played the spade five off dummy - Bathurst won with the jack. He thought forever, and finally, uncertain of After Milner’s conversion to the technically-superior the heart and club layout, led the seven of spades. seven notrump, Zia also led the queen of clubs. Lall won with the ace, and not having the inference declarer Declarer collected five club tricks, one diamond, and had in the other room, chose to lead a low diamond three spades for nine tricks. A pushed board in a toward his hand. When North followed, Lall won his making three notrump that could have been a push at ace and South showed out. Lall played a small heart down one. toward dummy and finessed the ten of hearts. The USA1 QF. Fleisher v Milner hand imploded. Martel won his jack and the defence Board 68. Dealer West. Both Vul. cashed five rounds of clubs to defeat the contract six [ J 9 8 4 vulnerable tricks. ]J 5 3 Had Lall guessed hearts, Martel would have been {Q 9 8 squeezed between spades and diamonds on the last }K 7 5 of these. As it was, it meant 21 IMPs to Fleisher. [ Q 10 [ A K 5 2 ] A K Q 10 8 7 ] 4 USA1 QF. Kranyak v Diamond { K 7 5 { A J 10 6 4 3 2 Board 79. Dealer South. NS Vul. }A 2 }8 [Q 5 2 [7 6 3 ]6 5 4 ]9 6 2 { Q 10 7 6 {— }A 3 2 } Q J 10 9 6 4 3 [ A 9 8 7 6 4 3 [ K West North East South ] 8 ] A K Q J 9 7 3 Willenken Schermer Rosenberg Chambers { J 9 3 { K 5 2 1] Pass 2{ Pass } K 6 } 10 7 2] Pass 3{ Pass [J 10 4{ Pass 4NT Pass ] 10 2 5{ Pass 5] Pass {A 8 4 5[ Pass 6{ Pass } Q J 9 8 5 4 7} Double 7{ Pass In the Open Room, Platnick, West, opened two spades Pass Pass and Diamond, East, jumped to four hearts and played West North East South it there. In the Closed Room, Wolpert, West, opened Milner Martel H. Lall Zia three spades and Kranyak, East, bid four hearts and 1] Pass 2{ Pass also played it there. 3{ Pass 3[ Pass Greco, South, led the heart ten against Kranyak. 4} Pass 4NT Pass Kranyak pulled three rounds of trump, cashed the 5{ Pass 7{ Pass spade king, and led the ten of clubs to the king and 7NT Pass Pass Pass ace. Hampson exited with a club, won by Greco’s eight. In a segment with two 1-IMP swings, one 4- IMP swing Greco exited with another club and declarer had no and four pushes, this board surfaced. Willenken/ to the spade ace. Kranyak tried a diamond to Rosenberg played in seven diamonds. The the nine, losing to the ten and finished down one when was the club queen, won by the ace in dummy. a diamond came back. Rosenberg was at the crossroads. He could guard At the other table, Dwyer, South, led the diamond ace. against the 3-0 diamond holding either way. He chose He shifted to the club queen, won by North (Bathurst) correctly to lead the king from dummy and wrapped with the ace over dummy’s king. Bathurst, wary of club up 13 tricks. ruffs in the dummy, shifted to a trump to declarer’s Against a grand slam, a trump lead is the most common. ace. Perhaps Rosenberg inferred that the lack of that lead was likely to be a … of course, one would not

4 Diamond cashed all seven of his trumps. South pitched USA1 Final. Kranyak v Fleisher four clubs and a diamond. Diamond cashed his pointed Board 81. Dealer North. Neither Vul. kings and exited with the club ten to Dwyer’s club [ A J 9 6 4 jack. South held only the spade jack. He was endplayed ]— into allowing Diamond to collect his spade ace and { K J 10 6 take ten tricks. Ten IMPs to Diamond. } K J 5 3 [ K 7 3 2 [ Q 8 5 USA1 QF. Kranyak v Diamond ] 8 3 2 ] K Q J 9 7 5 4 Board 87. Dealer South. Both Vul. { 9 8 4 2 { — [A J } Q 8 } 7 6 4 ]Q 4 3 [10 { Q 7 6 5 ] A 10 6 } A K Q J { A Q 7 5 3 [ K 8 7 5 4 3 2 [ Q 6 } A 10 9 2 ] 9 6 ] A 10 8 5 { A J { 10 8 3 West North East South } 4 2 } 10 9 8 5 Kranyak Levin Wolpert S. Weinstein [ 10 9 — 1[ 4] Double ] K J 7 2 Pass 4NT Pass 5{ { K 9 4 2 Pass 6{ Pass 7{ }7 6 3 Pass Pass Pass West North East South At the other table in this match, Bathurst had opened Platnick Bathurst Diamond Dwyer one spade; Katz bid three hearts; Dwyer bid three — — — Pass notrump, played it there and made five. 2[ Double 3[ Pass Kranyak led the heart deuce against seven diamonds. Pass 3NT Pass 4] Weinstein ruffed in dummy and cashed the diamond Pass Pass Pass king, getting that news. He cashed the ace of spades West North East South and ruffed a spade in hand, ruffed a heart in dummy, Wolpert Hampson Kranyak Greco played the diamond jack, and (drum roll … at the — — — Pass crossroads …) led the three of clubs to the ten and 2[ 2NT Pass 3} queen! Kranyak led back a spade and the contract Pass 3{ Pass 3NT failed by three tricks…12 IMPs to Kranyak. Pass Pass Pass USA2 QF. Gordon v Nickell Kranyak led the spade queen against Hampson’s Board 23. Dealer South. Both Vul. three notrump. Hampson ducked - fortunately for [ A K 8 6 him, Kranyak held only two spades, but unfortunately ] K Q 10 4 for him, Kranyak also held only one of the red aces. {7 6 2 Hampson led the heart queen. Kranyak won and } 10 9 played a diamond to Wolpert’s ace. Wolpert cashed [ J 10 9 4 [ Q 7 5 3 his spades and the contract was defeated four ] 6 5 3 ] A 9 7 vulnerable tricks. { 10 9 8 5 4 3 { J Dwyer and Bathurst had less room in which to } — } A Q J 5 4 explore due to Diamond’s enterprising raise and [2 arrived in four hearts, a game which had a chance. ]J 8 2 Platnick led the four of clubs; Dwyer won with {A K Q dummy’s jack and played a heart to the king and a } K 8 7 6 3 2 diamond to the jack and queen. Declarer then played This board produced a 12-IMP swing in both USA2 another heart, to the jack, and led a low diamond, quarterfinal matches. won by Platnick’s ace. West North East South Platnick played a spade, won with dummy’s ace. Dwyer S Weinstein Pszczola Levin Seamon cashed the clubs, discarding a spade, trumped a spade ———1} in hand and took the diamond king for ten tricks as Pass 1] Pass 2} Diamond followed suit helplessly. Sonny Moyse Pass 2{1 Pass 3] would have been delighted! Fourteen IMPs to Pass 4] Pass Pass Kranyak. Pass 1. Could be shorter than four

5 West North East South capture nine tricks … two spades, three hearts, three Gordon Katz Pratap R. Nickell diamonds and one club. ———1} Against Moss, a small spade was again led. Like Greco, Pass 1] Pass 2} Moss won the king and led the ten of clubs toward Pass 2{1 Pass 2] the king. Platnick won his ace and played another spade, Pass 2[ Pass 3{ ducked by Moss. Diamond continued the attack on Pass 3NT Pass Pass spades. Moss won his ace, played a heart to the jack Pass and a heart to the queen, ducked. Like Katz, Moss shifted 1. Could be shorter than four gears and went after clubs. Again, like Katz, Moss failed Levin led the ace of hearts and another against by a trick - 12 IMPs to Diamond, Pszczola’s four hearts. Declarer won the second heart On the following board, Fleisher/Kamil did well to get and drew the remaining trumps, then went after clubs. to the only game that had a chance: five diamonds from He led the ten of clubs, won by Levin’s ace as Weinstein North. However, they were unlucky to be at the table showed out. Levin shifted to the diamond jack, won in with such a creative opening leader. dummy. Pszczola crossed to hand with a spade and led another club. Levin was helpless: he could let the USA2 Final. Nickell v Fleisher nine of clubs hold or he could cover it, whereupon Board 4. Dealer West. Both Vul. one more round of clubs would set up the suit. That [7 was plus 620. ]7 4 { A K Q 9 7 4 Against three notrump, Rajadhyaksha led a fourth-best } K 10 4 3 spade, won by declarer with the ace in hand. Katz [ K 10 8 6 5 [ A Q 9 4 3 2 played a heart to the jack and a heart to the king, both ]Q 8 2 ]5 ducked. { 10 3 { 8 5 To succeed at this point, declarer had to remove East’s } 9 6 5 } A Q J 2 diamond exit card, then knock out the ace of hearts. [J East would have had to give him access to hand or set ] A K J 10 9 6 3 up dummy’s clubs. However, Katz wasn’t playing double {J 6 2 dummy and he abandoned hearts to play on clubs. }8 7 Rajadhyaksha won with his club ace, played the queen West North East South of spades, ducked, and another spade to the ten and Willenken Levin Rosenberg Weinstein king. Katz played a club, covered, to the king and Pass 1{ 1[ 4] another club. The defence collected two spades, two 4[ 5] 5[ Pass clubs and a heart. Down one and 12 IMPs to Gordon. Pass Pass USA2 QF. Spector v Diamond West North East South West North East South Nickell Fleisher Katz Kamil Becker Greco Spector Hampson Pass 1{ 1[ 2] ———2} 3[ Pass 4} 4] Pass 2{1 Pass 2[ Pass Pass 4[ Pass Pass 2NT Pass 3} Pass 4NT Pass 5{ Pass 3NT Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Ralph Katz thought he needed a quick club through 1. Relay/major -suit inquiry the king to have any hope of defeating the contract. West North East South Accordingly, he led the spade nine. Nickell won with Diamond Moss Platnick Gitelman his king and dutifully led the nine of clubs through the ———1} king to take two club tricks and defeat the contract Pass 1] Pass 2} one trick for 5 IMP’s when his counterparts in the Pass 3NT Pass Pass other room took the ‘save’ in five spades. Pass Winners of the USA1 competition were John The opening lead against Greco was also a low spade, Kranyak/ and Kevin Bathurst/Kevin won with the king. The ten of clubs was led to the jack Dwyer. The USA2 spot was claimed by Marty Fleisher/ and king. Declarer played the jack of hearts, a heart to Michael Kamil, Michael Rosenberg/ and the queen and the king of hearts, knocking out the /Chip Martel. ace. Another spade was led, but Greco was able to

6 16th BFAME (ZONE 4) OPEN TEAMS – BANGLADESH vs. BAH- RAIN (SEMI-FINAL, SESSION 2) CHAMPIONSHIPS Board 20. Dealer West. Both Vul. Ahmedabad, India, June 4-11, 2013 [A Q 9 T.C. Pant, New Delhi ] 10 6 5 Vinay Desai, Ahmedabad { J 10 5 Keyzad Anklesaria, Ahmedabad }A J 10 7 [ K 7 [ 8 6 4 2 FRIENDSHIP PAIRS ] A K J 8 ] 3 { 6 3 2 { K 8 7 Board 5. Dealer North. NS Vul. } 9 8 5 4 } K Q 6 3 2 [ A K 7 4 [ J 1 0 5 3 ]K 8 4 ] Q 9 7 4 2 {K { A Q 9 4 } A J 10 7 6 }— [ 8 3 [ J 10 9 6 5 2 West North East South ]A 5 ]9 7 Basiony Ispahani Maci Karmuzzamani { Q 10 8 6 5 2 { 4 Pass 1} Pass 1] } 5 3 2 } K 9 8 4 Pass 1NT Pass 2}1 [Q Pass 2] Pass 4] ] Q J 10 6 3 2 Double Pass Pass Pass { A J 9 7 3 1. Check-back }Q West North East South In the closed room, the Bahraini North/South pair — 1} Pass 1] played in two hearts making three for plus 140. But Pass 2[ Pass 3{ here, South took a very aggressive view and was dou- Pass 3] Pass 4NT bled by West.. Pass 5{1 Pass 6] West led the nine of clubs and declarer won with the Pass Pass Pass ace, discarding a spade, and played a low trump to the 1. 0 or 3 key cards nine and jack. West continued with another club: jack, Six hearts is a very reasonable contract, but careless queen and . Declarer now played a low heart, West play can cause problems. If West leads a diamond, won winning with the king and playing the five of clubs to by the king in the dummy, declarer has to be careful the seven, king and another ruff. Declarer now played to play a low heart toward the queen in hand or to the jack of spades, West covering with the king and the king in dummy. If he by mistake plays the king of declarer winning with dummy’s ace. Declarer cashed trumps, West will win with the ace and another the nine of spades and led the jack of diamonds, diamond defeats the contract because East can finessing. Two more rounds of diamonds led to the overruff the dummy. the position at the top of the next page: Let us say declarer leads a heart to the queen, holding When declarer led the queen of diamonds, West was the trick. Best play now seems to be to take the queen a dead . If he ruffed low, it would have been of spades and ruff a diamond high (another trump beats overruffed with the ten of hearts. If he discarded, de- you if they are 3-1 and a trump is continued when the clarer would also have discarded (the spade queen) defence wins the ace). Then only 6-2 spades defeats and led the spade ten, coming to the same position. If you. If you do not take the spade queen, a club return he ruffed with ace and played his remaining trump, defeats you when the defence wins the heart ace. declarer’s hand would be good.

7 [Q nothing but trumps left, ruffed this with the six; de- ]10 clarer overruffed with the seven. {— A trump to dummy’s king set up a trump on }10 North, with declarer’s jack-five of hearts poised over [— [8 North’s nine-four. ]A 8 ]— {— {— Two hearts doubled made plus 670 and resulted in }8 }6 3 13 IMPs for India. [10 Board 28. Dealer West. NS Vul. ]Q [A 10 {Q ]8 7 3 }— { A Q J 8 3 There was nothing to be done and that was plus 790 }A 5 4 for a 12-IMP gain to Bangladesh. [ Q J 9 5 3 [ 6 ] Q 6 ] K 10 5 4 2 (Yes, West should have taken the heart ace when in { 10 9 { 6 4 with the king.) } J 8 6 3 } K 10 9 7 2 OPEN TEAMS – INDIA vs. UAE (SEMI- [ K 8 7 4 2 FINAL, SESSION 2) ]A J 9 { K 7 5 2 Board 22. Dealer East. EW Vul. }Q [ Q J 9 4 ] 9 6 4 2 West North East South {A Dr. Attef B. Prabhakar Khaled R. Tewari } K 9 7 5 Pass 1NT 2}1 3} [ A K 8 6 [ 5 3 2 Double 3{ Pass 4} ] K Q 8 ] J 10 7 5 3 Pass 4] Pass 4[ { Q J 10 9 7 { 4 3 Pass 6{ Pass Pass } 4 } Q J 6 Pass [ 10 7 1. Clubs and another ]A East led the six of spades, West playing the jack and { K 8 6 5 2 declarer winning with the ace. Trumps were drawn in } A 10 8 3 2 two rounds, then Prabhakar ran the ten of spades to West North East South West’s queen and later took the marked ruffing fi- Satya Tamer Kiran Mounir nesse for the nine of spades, claiming 12 tricks. — — Pass 1{ A well-bid slam earning India 18 IMPs on the board 1NT Double Redouble1 Pass when closed room North/South played in four spades 2{ Pass 2] Pass doubled, going off two. Pass Double Pass Pass Pass Open 1. One-suiter India: Kiran Nadar, B. Satyanarayana, Sunit Chokshi, K.R. South led the ten of spades which was won in dummy Venkatraman, B Prabhakar, Rajeshwar Tewari with the ace. Declarer played a club and South won Bahrain: Wael Basiony, Teodoras Maci, Imran Ali Abedi, with the ace over the queen. He backed another spade Meir Nonoo, Mahesh Lakhani which was won in dummy with the king. Women’s Then came the diamond queen, North winning with Pakistan: Zeenat Azwer, Rubina Agha, Qudsia Dossa, the stiff ace. He cashed the spade queen and played Roshan Ara Bokhari, Rubina Saeed Hai, Fatima Raza the spade jack, ruffed with the ten and overruffed by India: Hema Deora, Marianne Karmarkar, Rita Choksi, South’s ace. South shifted to a club and declarer ruffed Bharati Dey, Tutu Narula, Asha Surana in dummy with the eight of hearts and played the dia- Seniors mond jack to South’s king. India: Ashok Goel, Vinod Sharma, Sunil Machhar, R. After winning with the king of diamonds, South played Sridharan, Kamal Mukherjee, Aloke Sadhu another club which East ruffed with the trump queen Bangladesh: M. Azizul Haque, Khandakar Muzharul in dummy and he then played a diamond. North, with Haque, A.K. Firoze Ahmed, A.T.M. Moazzem Hussain

8 49th APBF CHAMPIONSHIPS 1. Strong 2. 8+ HCP, natural Hong Kong, June 6-16, 2013 3. , agrees clubs , Bath, UK 4. RKCB Arafin Halim, Jakarta 5. 1 or 4 key cards 6. Guarantees all key cards and trump queen For those players talented and dedicated enough to West led her trump and declarer won in hand, played achieve the distinction of representing their countries, a heart to dummy’s ace, a club back to hand, a heart to the ultimate ambition must be to compete at the very the ace and ruffed a heart, claiming plus 2140 and 13 highest level in the World Bridge Championships. What IMPs for China. Impressive. greater incentive could there be than the right to contest the 41st Bermuda Bowl, the 19th Venice Cup Dealer South. NS Vul or the 7th d’Orsi Seniors Trophy in one of the most [ A 9 8 6 exotic locations in the world, the island of Bali. ]A K 4 Ladies Teams China v Japan RR1 Match 6 { A J 8 4 }Q 3 Dealer East. Both Vul. [ K Q J 7 2 [ 5 4 3 [ 10 5 2 ] 10 ] 9 8 7 6 5 ] A K J 5 4 2 {7 {9 6 5 3 {5 } K 9 8 7 6 2 } J }J 9 2 [10 [ Q 8 7 6 [ K 9 3 ] Q J 3 2 ] Q 10 7 ] 6 3 { K Q 10 2 { J 10 8 4 2 { K Q 9 7 3 } A 10 5 4 } 8 } 10 5 3 West North East South [A J 4 Wang LP Kyoko Wang WF Makiko ]9 8 ———1{ {A 6 2} Double Pass 2] } A K Q 7 6 4 2[ 3[ Pass 4] West North East South Pass 5{ Pass Pass Wang LP Kyoko Wang WF Makiko Pass — — Pass 1} Declarer won the spade lead in dummy, cashed two Pass 1] Pass 3NT diamonds and then played four rounds of hearts, Pass 4} Pass 4{ discarding a club from dummy. She cashed the ace of Pass 4] Pass 6} clubs and ruffed a club with the jack of diamonds, plus Pass Pass Pass 600. West led the seven of spades to the king and ace. West North East South Declarer cashed the ace and king of clubs, then played Michiko Zhang Natsuko Feng the ace of diamonds and ruffed a diamond. She cashed ———1{ the top hearts and claimed plus 1370. 1[ Double 2[ Double West North East South 3} 3[ Pass 4] Michiko Zhang Natsuko Feng Pass 6{ Pass Pass — — Pass 1}1 Pass Pass 1]2 Pass 2} South followed North’s with a Pass 2] Pass 3} responsive one and the excellent slam was reached. Pass 4{3 Pass 4NT4 West led the king of spades and declarer won with Pass 5}5 Pass 5NT6 Pass 7} Pass Pass Pass Continued on page 12... 9 IBPA Column Service , Canberra Members may use these deals as they wish, without attributing the author or IBPA.

669. Dealer North. NS Vul. Dealer South. Both Vul. [ 10 3 [K 9 2 ] A 10 9 8 5 2 ] A Q 8 6 {A K 9 {J 6 5 }5 4 }7 4 2 [ K Q J 9 5 2 [ 8 7 6 4 [ A J 10 5 [ 8 7 6 4 ] J 4 ] K Q 6 ]9 4 ]5 2 {7 3 {5 2 { A 10 9 8 { 7 4 2 } A Q 10 } 8 6 3 2 } K J 5 } 10 9 8 6 [A [Q 3 ]7 3 ] K J 10 7 3 { Q J 10 8 6 4 {K Q 3 } K J 9 7 }A Q 3 West North East South West North East South — 1] Pass 2{ ———1] 2[ 3{ 4[ 5{ Double 2NT Pass 4] Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass West led the king of spades against five diamonds. West led the four of trumps and declarer paused to Declarer could count eight tricks and decided that make a plan. He could count nine winners and all dummy’s hearts would have to provide the extra tricks. seemed to depend on the club . However, the The only catch was that declarer could not let East auction suggested that it would be West, rather than gain the lead in case West began with both the ace East, who began with the king of clubs. and queen of clubs. Declarer saw that there was a Declarer took the trump lead in hand, drew a second small chance to do this when both the hearts and round of trumps with the ace and then led a diamond clubs were unfavourable: after winning the first trick to the king. West took this with the ace and exited with with ace of spades, he crossed to dummy with the the ten of diamonds. After winning this in hand, declarer ace of hearts and led the ten of spades. When East led the three of spades. West had not to play the ace or followed with the six, South discarded the seven of give the contract away. After dummy’s king of spades hearts from hand. held, declarer cashed the jack of diamonds and then West took the trick with the jack of spades and led the two of spades to his queen and West’s ace. returned a trump. Declarer won in dummy with the Declarer’s luck was in because West held both the nine and ruffed a heart high. A trump to the king saw jack and ten of spades. When he tried the ten of spades, declarer ruff another heart high to establish three declarer discarded the three of clubs. West was now heart winners in dummy, with the ace of trumps as endplayed and had the choice of conceding a ruff- the entry to enjoy them. He made six trumps, the ace and-discard or leading into declarer’s club tenace. of spades and four hearts. Either way, declarer had a tenth trick. As it turns out, a lead of either red suit would have 671. (See top of next page.) After a fourth-suit-forcing defeated the contract because it would have removed bid of three clubs, North admitted to a sixth spade one of the four essential entries needed to establish and South placed the contract in three notrump. West and reach the hearts. led the six of clubs and dummy’s queen held the trick. 670. (See top of next column.) After West’s takeout Declarer could count eight top winners and his first double, North promised a sound raise to at least three move was to play on diamonds. When East played the hearts by jumping to two notrump. three of diamonds, declarer took the of covering this with the nine, to avoid losing the lead

10 to East when he began with four diamonds headed This was the auction at both tables in a recent team by the jack or ten. match, as were the first two cards from West – the ace and king of hearts. Dealer North. EW Vul. [ A K 9 6 5 2 The first declarer ruffed the second heart and led a ] A 6 4 3 spade to the queen followed by a low spade back to {6 his ten, which West allowed to hold. Declarer could }Q 7 not afford to play a third trump or West would have [ J [ Q 10 8 7 4 won the ace of trumps and extracted declarer’s last ] 10 2 ] Q J 9 5 trump by playing on hearts. Declarer cashed the ace { J 10 8 5 2 { 3 and king of diamonds and tried to cross back to hand } A 10 8 6 3 } J 5 2 with the ace of clubs. However, West ruffed with the [3 seven of trumps, cashed the ace of trumps and played ]K 8 7 another heart. Declarer ruffed the heart but he still { A K Q 9 7 4 had to lose a club and so finished with only nine tricks. }K 9 4 At the second table, declarer maintained his trump West North East South length at trick two by discarding the two of clubs, a — 1[ Pass 2{ card that was an almost-certain loser. As there was no Pass 2] Pass 3} future in continuing hearts, West shifted to a diamond. Pass 3[ Pass 3NT After winning with the king of diamonds, declarer Pass Pass Pass played on trumps. West took his ace on the third In practice, West won the trick with the ten of round of trumps and led a heart. Declarer threw the diamonds and exited with the ten of hearts on which blocking ace of diamonds from dummy and ruffed in East placed the jack. Declarer took this in hand with hand. After drawing West’s remaining trump, declarer’s the king of hearts and cashed the ace of diamonds. hand was high; he made four trumps, five diamonds When East discarded there was no longer any way to and the ace of clubs. make a ninth trick. North was quick to point out declarer’s error. “The only danger was that diamonds were 5-1. If East had begun with five diamonds then nothing could have been done. There was a chance, however, if it had been West who had started with five diamonds. You should www.ibpa.com have won the heart shift in dummy with the ace, cashed the spade tops and returned to hand with the king of hearts. Then you would have played the three diamond This Bulletin: winners and exited with a low diamond. This would You can access an electronic copy of this have put West on play with only clubs left in his hand. Bulletin at www.ibpa.com/582et.pdf The king of clubs would have been your ninth trick Subscriptions: and your sixth diamond a surprise overtrick!” You can apply to join the IBPA or renew your 672. Dealer South. EW Vul. subscription on the website by clicking on the [Q 9 5 appropriate button on the top of the ]Q 8 homepage. {A K Members’ Addresses: } Q 8 7 6 4 3 You can find fellow members’ contact details at: [ A 7 6 3 [ 2 www.jannersten.org. If you have forgotten your ] A K J 10 7 3 ] 9 6 4 2 access code: [email protected] { 6 4 2 { 8 7 3 } — } K J 10 9 5 The 2010 Handbook: To access the electronic version of the [ K J 10 8 4 Handbook, please follow the emailed ]5 instructions. { Q J 10 9 5 }A 2 Personal Details Changes: West North East South Whenever your contact details change, please ———1[ amend them as appropriate in the database 2] 3} 4] Pass found at: www.jannersten.org or inform the Membership Secretary, Jeremy Dhondy: Pass 4[ Pass Pass [email protected] Pass

11 dummy’s ace, ruffed a spade and played a club. West diamond finesse, and on the play of the two top went up with the king and returned a club and East’s diamonds it is now North’s turn to be squeezed. ruff condemned declare to minus 100 and 12 IMPs Non-simultaneous double squeezes are a rare went to Japan instead of 13 the other way. phenomenon, so that’s why I called my article “rara After ruffing a spade, declarer can afford to cash two avis” (Latin for “rare bird”). top diamonds. Then she goes to dummy with a heart One last question from me: What is the killing double- and ruffs another spade. A heart to dummy allows her dummy opening lead? The answer is a diamond and to draw trumps and claim. South must play small! Rara Avis by Arifin Halim Open Teams Japan v Singapore RR1 Match 10 In the 9th round, the match shown was from The Round 10 Open series match between Japan and the Ladies’ Series between Australia and Indonesia. On Singapore proved to be a low-scoring affair, although board 6, Indonesia reached the far too ambitious seven both teams missed some opportunities. spades, to be played by West (due to the East/West system, it was the hand with the short trumps which Dealer North. Neither Vul. became declarer). [J 3 ] K J 7 5 Dealer East. EW Vul. {K 9 6 [5 } K Q 5 4 ] Q J 10 3 2 [ K 10 8 7 6 [ 5 4 2 { 9 7 6 5 ] Q 8 2 ] A 10 }Q 7 5 { Q 8 7 { A 10 5 4 2 [ K J 2 [ A Q 10 9 4 } 10 2 } J 8 3 ] 6 5 4 ] A K 9 [A Q 9 { A K J 10 { 8 ] 9 6 4 3 } 10 9 2 } A K 8 4 {J 3 [ 8 7 6 3 } A 9 7 6 ]8 7 { Q 4 3 2 West North East South }J 6 3 Loo Ino Poon Teramato —1}1{1] North, Margaret Bourke, led the queen of hearts.Now 1[ 2] 2[ 3] over to you! Pass Pass Pass With all cards on view, can you see a way to make this West led the seven of diamonds and East won with ambitious contract? Make up your plan first before the ace and returned the four, covered by the jack, you continue reading. queen and king. Declarer played a club to the ace and West wins the opening lead with the king and draws heart to the jack and East’s ace. The spade return was four rounds of trumps and to simplify the position ducked to West’s king and declarer took the next club cashes the heart ace and the club ace. The position is with the king and cashed the king of hearts. He still now: had to lose a trick to the queen of trumps but that [— was all, plus 140. ]J 10 West North East South {9 7 Hirata Lau Kaku Wong }Q 7 — 1{ Pass 1] [— [9 Pass 2] Pass 2NT ]— ]9 Pass 3} Pass 3] { A K J 10 { 8 Pass Pass Pass } 10 9 } K 8 4 West led the ten of clubs and declarer won in dummy. [— (It looks right to win in hand and play a heart to the ]— jack. If East wins declarer wins the club return, cashes { Q 4 3 2 the king of hearts then plays off the clubs, exiting with }J 6 a heart if West does not ruff in.) He played a low heart East now plays her last trump. South is forced to and East won with the ten and switched to the two discard a club to keep her diamonds intact and of spades. West won with the king and returned a declarer discards the club nine from dummy. North spade. Declarer won with the ace and played a heart can still discard a heart or a diamond. Now comes the to the king and ace. He won the club return with the

12 nine and played a club. West ruffed and exited with a spades. South won with the king and returned the spade and although declarer could throw a diamond seven of clubs, covered by the queen and ruffed by from dummy he was left with two losing diamonds, North who tried the king of hearts. Declarer ruffed two down, minus 100 and 6 IMPs for Japan. and cashed the jack of spades. With diamonds 3-3 she had ten tricks, plus 420. Ladies Teams Australia v Indonesia Women RR1 Match 9 Dealer East. Neither Vul. [9 8 2 Dealer West. EW Vul. ] A K J 7 6 5 4 [ J 10 6 4 3 {5 4 2 ]5 3 } — {8 6 [ J 6 5 3 [ A Q 10 7 } 9 8 7 3 ] 10 ] Q 9 8 [ K Q 9 7 [ A 8 { A K Q 3 { 9 8 6 ]A 2 ]9 7 } A Q 10 6 } 8 5 3 { Q 5 4 2 { A J 10 3 [K 4 } A K J } Q 10 6 5 4 ]3 2 [5 2 { J 10 7 ] K Q J 10 8 6 4 } K J 9 7 4 2 {K 9 7 }2 West North East South Wu Bojoh Tsai Tueje West North East South — — — Pass Sumampouw Bourke Andhani Lusk 1}1 3] Double2 Pass 1}1 Pass 2{2 3] 3[ Pass 4[ Pass Double3 Pass 4{4 Pass Pass Pass 4]5 Pass 4NT6 Pass 1. Precision 5}7 Pass 5[8 Pass 2. 5-8 HCP 6} Pass Pass Pass 1. Modified Precision 6. Spade cue West North East South 2. 5+ clubs 7. Key card ask Dewi Gong Murniati Hu 3. Takeout 8. 2 key cards — — — Pass 4. Natural 1}1 3] Double2 Pass 5. Cue bid for diamonds 3[ Pass 4[ Pass Pass Pass When West bid six clubs, East, not 100% certain which 1. Precision was agreed, decided that her partner was 2. 5-8 HCP offering her a choice of contracts. Her decision to pass demonstrated that it is not always best to play in your The first two tricks were identical but then South 4-4 fit. switched to the three of hearts. Declarer ruffed, played a spade to the ten (North following with Declarer won the heart lead, drew trumps, pitched a the nine) and ruffed the queen of hearts with the heart on the third round of spades and lost only to jack of spades. She played four rounds of diamonds the king of diamonds, plus 1370. and pitched a club on the last one. It was a cruel West North East South blow when North ruffed the ace of clubs and Djurovic Bojoh Havas Tueje exited with a heart, South winning a club at the 1{ Pass 2{1 4] end for one down and 10 IMPs to Chinese Taipei. 6{ Pass Pass Pass However, declarer was perhaps the architect of 1. Inverted her own misfortune. North was known to have North led a heart and declarer won and played three started with seven hearts and three diamonds and rounds of spades, pitching a heart. South ruffed and had followed to two rounds of trumps. With a forced dummy with a heart. Declarer came to hand singleton club she might have led it, or switched with a club and took the diamond finesse. When it to it at trick two. If declarer ruffs the winning lost she was one down, 16 IMPs to Indonesia. diamond she can draw the last trump. When North Ladies Teams Indonesia and Chinese Taipei has it she is counted out and the club finesse is a RR2 Match 7 certainty. If South has it then North has a singleton club, making South a favourite to hold the king. On the following deal (See top of next column), North led the ace of hearts and switched to the eight of

13 Playoff - China v Chinese Taipei Open Teams Dealer South. EW Vul. [ A 9 4 3 2 ]— { K 10 9 8 4 3 }A 2 [ 10 7 [ K J 6 ] Q 7 3 2 ] A K 10 6 5 4 {A J 5 {2 } K 8 6 5 } Q 7 3 [Q 8 5 ]J 9 8 {Q 7 6 } J 10 9 4 President’s Report West North East South She Ju Ho Shi from Ostend — — 1] Pass 3{1 3]2 4] 4[ It was a little disappointing that IBPA only Pass Pass Double Pass signed up three new members in Ostend. Pass Pass These were Louk Herber of the 1. 4+ hearts, invitational Netherlands who is a photographer for the 2. Spades and a minor , Amit Chaudhuri West led the two of hearts and declarer ruffed in of Spain who runs the website dummy and played a diamond to the queen and ace. bridgeboffin.com and Constantin Vornicu, West switched to the five of clubs and declarer went Bianca Barden-Elinescu’s father. However, up with dummy’s ace, cashed the ace of spades and it was pleasing to see of the played a spade. East won with the king and played a USA, Jens Auken of Denmark and Bianca club, West winning with the king and returning a club. Barden of Germany rejoin and some late Declarer ruffed with the nine of spades, drew the subscriptions for 2013 collected. outstanding trump, cashed the nine of clubs and played a diamond. When he put up the king he was three There was an outing for IBPA members to down, minus 500, rather than plus 590. see a windfarm firm and have an excellent lunch. Several of the IBPA members were Note that West could have returned a diamond at various points to ensure a one trick defeat. Not to busy playing bridge and some of them were mention that declarer, with an inferential count, should winning medals (see the roll of honour have got the diamonds right. from the Daily Bulletins and this Bulletin). West North East South The Press Room was spacious and well- Wang Chen Zhang Huang managed as usual by Jan Swaan. — — 1] Pass 3{1 3]2 4] Pass Your Executive had a meeting at which the Pass Pass Broadcast Media Committee led by Jan Van 1. 4+ hearts, invitational Cleeff recommended the launch of a 2. Spades and a minor Facebook entry. René Steiner of the South led the eight of hearts and declarer won and Netherlands will launch and manage the drew trumps ending in dummy. He played a club to entry but there will be no editor. This will the queen and then ducked a club to North’s ace. be for IBPA members only and represent a When a spade came back he put up the king, plus 650 forum opportunity for members outside and 4 IMPs to China. the restrictions of the Bulletin. We will also Qualifiers for Bali were: be looking at the possibility of having an entry open to all. Open – Japan, China, Chinese Taipei Women– Japan, China, Philippines , Cardiff Seniors – Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, Japan

14 three cards). Now declarer finessed again in clubs, cashed the ace of clubs as Auken pitched her spade nine, and was at the crossroads. With North marked with only four hearts and precisely two clubs, if anyone was going to hold a doubleton diamond it would have been South, not North. Thus declarer should have led her diamond ten from hand, succeeding against the 3- 3 diamonds with the queen onside, but also picking up the doubleton nine offside. In practice, Zobu led her low diamond to the jack and THE 6TH OPEN EUROPEAN cashed the ace, Welland pitching the jack of spades. Zobu now went for her best chance, to endplay North, CHAMPIONSHIPS when she exited with a diamond. But the defenders , New York City could win, Welland pitching a spade, then cash two Brent Manley, Memphis, TN hearts ending in South, and take the king of clubs for Jos Jacobs, Maarn, Netherlands down one and 135 out of 206 MP. Patrick Jourdain, Cardiff, Wales Merry Merrimac - Manley Maureen Hiron, Málaga, Spain Jozef Harsanyi, Burghausen, Germany Board 30. Dealer East. None Vul. [3 Mark Horton, Bath, UK ] K 10 9 7 5 Kicking Off - Rigal { J 9 5 4 The first deal of the tournament produced an }A Q 9 excellent example of taking your chances in the right [ 10 8 4 [ A K 6 order and maximizing those chances. ] Q J ] A 6 2 { K Q 6 3 2 { A 7 Board 1. Dealer North. Neither Vul. } 5 4 3 } K J 8 6 2 [K 9 5 [ Q J 9 7 5 2 ] K 7 6 2 ]8 4 3 { Q 7 4 3 { 10 8 }J 6 } 10 7 [ Q 7 6 [ A 4 3 2 West North East South ] A 3 ] J 10 4 Kolesnick Picus { 10 8 2 { A K J 5 ——1}2[ } A Q 10 5 3 } 4 2 Pass Pass 2NT Pass [ J 10 8 3NT Pass Pass Pass ] Q 9 8 5 {9 6 East’s one club was Polish, and the two notrump rebid } K 9 8 7 showed a with 18-20 high-card points. West North East South Sue Picus started with the queen of spades, taken by Zobu Auken Batov Welland declarer with the ace. She played four rounds of — Pass 1{ Pass diamonds, and when Kolesnik got in with the jack, he 2NT Pass 3NT Pass put the king of hearts on the table. Had declarer Pass Pass ducked, she would have been okay. When she won led her third highest heart (attitude) to with the ace, however, the only way for her to get to dummy’s jack. It might have been right to duck this, if the good diamond in dummy was to play a heart. Now declarer had started with king-doubleton, but Welland Kolesnik was poised with the ace of clubs and good could see he did not rate to get on lead early enough hearts, so declarer ended up a trick short. to clarify the heart position for his partner; so he Had declarer ducked the heart, she could have won covered, and declarer won with her ace, crossed to the continuation in dummy, cashed the diamond and ace of diamonds and led a club to the ten and jack. led a club up to score the king sooner or later. Auken returned her low heart, and declarer won the Nevertheless, plus 50 added 176/206 matchpoints to ten, (Welland giving present count from his remaining the Picus/Kolesnik total.

15 Just a Little Luck - Jacobs Your journalist found a couple of pairs who had solved both: Board 17. Dealer North. Neither Vul. [ A 8 5 2 Board 28. Dealer West. NS Vul. ]Q 2 [J 5 2 { 10 8 ] K Q 10 6 } A K 9 8 5 { 10 7 5 3 [ K 9 6 [ 10 7 3 }8 4 ] A 6 5 3 ] J 10 9 [ K 9 8 4 3 [ A Q 10 { 9 7 4 { 5 3 2 ]5 ]A 9 8 7 } J 7 2 } Q 10 6 4 { J 4 { A K 8 6 2 [Q J 4 } A K Q 9 3 } 10 ] K 8 7 4 [7 6 { A K Q J 6 ] J 4 3 2 }3 {Q 9 West North East South } J 7 6 5 2 Slemr Bertens Hoderova Verbeek First look at this auction from Per-Erik Austberg (West) — 1} Pass 1{ and Jan-Torre Berg (East) of Abax in their match with Pass 1[ Pass 2] Rosenthal: Pass 2NT Pass 3{ West North East South Pass 3[ Pass 3NT Austberg Berg Pass 4} Pass 4{ 1[ Pass 2{1 Pass Pass 4[ Pass 4NT 2[2 Pass 3[ Pass Pass 5] Pass 6{ 4]3 Pass 4NT Pass Pass Pass Pass 5]4 Pass 5NT5 Pass This contract was uncomfortably high, especially on a 6}6 Pass 6{7 Pass trump lead, which was duly found by West. Without 7[ Pass Pass Pass the trump lead, double dummy, declarer can score one 1. Natural and game-forcing heart ruff in dummy, provided she pins the jack-ten- 2. Marking time - three clubs would have shown nine in East. The spade loser then goes on a top club, a stronger hand than he held once the finesse is right. Quite a parlay. 3. Shortage 4. Two keys and no trump queen When dummy’s eight of diamonds drew the two at 5. Grand slam interest, guaranteeing all keycards trick one, declarer overtook it in hand to cash two and the trump queen; asking for specific kings top clubs, shedding a spade from hand, and ruffed a 6. Club king club high. A diamond to dummy’s ten and another club 7. Asking for third round control of diamonds ruff established dummy’s fifth club. On this trick, West mirrored declarer’s discard and let go a low spade West, with the doubleton diamond and excellent clubs, rather than a heart, a fatal mistake, as we shall see. had no problem accepting the invitation. Well bid indeed. Verbeek then ran the queen of spades rather than draw the last trump (not that this mattered very much) North led the heart king. Austberg won the ace, took and when West covered, returned to her jack of spades two top trumps to test the suit, then the ace of clubs to draw the last trump after all. When the queen of and a club ruff, then a heart ruff to reach hand to hearts proved to be an entry to dummy, the fifth club draw the last trump. On this, dummy discards a then brought East under the sort of pressure defined diamond, but what should South throw? by Reese as a vice squeeze. East was now obliged to South correctly realised that declarer had five clubs hold on to his ten of spades and thus had to throw a and chose to discard a heart. Austberg had the answer heart, enabling declarer to make two more heart tricks to this. He crossed to the ace of diamonds and ruffed and her contract. One other pair matched this result, another heart. That left only North guarding the hearts. so plus 920 was worth 98% to North/South. When declarer followed with the two winning clubs A Grand Squeeze - Jourdain North was squeezed in the red suits. Board 28 of Round 6 of the Teams presented both The Norwegian pair had done the best they could bidding and technical play problems for East/West. but was there a better defence against the grand?

16 In the match between Gillis and White House II both [— tables played seven spades. Where Jan van Cleeff ]K 6 5 (playing with Herman Drenkelford) was declarer, he { 10 8 6 received a top heart lead against seven spades and }— duly followed the Austberg approach. South pitched a [10 [J 8 heart and van Cleeff made 13 tricks. ] J 10 9 7 4 ] — In the other room, against Petter Tondel (West) and {— {J 9 Odin Svendsen (East), the defender, Agnes Snellers }— }10 9 (with Wubbo de Boer) defended correctly when she [Q 9 pitched the nine of diamonds on the third spade. Tondel ]— played the jack of diamonds to the king, dropping the { Q 7 5 2 queen, and later took the diamond finesse at trick 12 }— for the contract. On the play of the king of hearts, East had no good A Hard-Earned Loss - Manley discard. A spade pitch would mean dummy’s queen Team Mahaffey was threatened with a 10-IMP loss on and nine would both win tricks, a diamond would give the following deal, but Eric Rodwell came through in the whole suit to declarer and a club discard would the play to hold it to just a single IMP. allow Rodwell establish diamonds, with the spade queen Board 16. Dealer West. EW Vul. as a stepping stone entry. In practice, East pitched a [A K club and Rodwell was able to claim for plus 400. ] A K 6 5 2 Trump Happy - Manley { 10 8 6 4 }K 3 This deal was played in the Thursday Side Pairs, where [ 10 7 3 [ J 8 6 5 Waseem Naqvi (England) and Lee Rosenthal (Israel), ] J 10 9 7 4 3 ] Q showed how to maximize their trump holdings. {A {J 9 3 Board 19. Dealer South. EW Vul. } Q 7 6 } J 10 9 5 2 [J 9 [ Q 9 4 2 ]5 4 3 ]8 {A 7 { K Q 7 5 2 } A 9 8 7 6 4 }A 8 4 [ 10 8 6 5 4 [ K Q 3 At one table, Wojcieszek played three notrump from ] K Q ] A 9 7 6 the South seat, and on the lead of the jack of hearts, { 5 2 { Q 8 4 3 he had time to develop three tricks in diamonds – } J 10 3 2 } K Q misguessing the position as everyone would – for plus [A 7 2 430. At the other table, the same contract was played ] J 10 8 2 by Rodwell in the North seat, and the lead of the jack { K J 10 9 6 of clubs was definitely not to his advantage. }5 West North East South West North East South Gawrys Rodwell Tuszynski Meckstroth Rosenthal Naqvi 2{1 Double 2]2 3[ — — — Pass Pass 3NT Pass Pass Pass 3} Double Pass Pass 3[ Pass Pass Pass 1. Multi 2. Pass or correct Rosenthal started with the ace of diamonds, continuing with a diamond to Naqvi’s jack. Naqvi switched to his Rodwell took the jack of clubs lead in hand with the singleton club, then received a club ruff and played king and played a diamond to the king and ace. Gawrys back a diamond. Declarer West ruffed with the eight played back the queen of clubs, ducked, and cleared of spades, overruffed by Rosenthal with the nine. A the suit with a third round to dummy’s ace. It looked third round of clubs was ruffed with the king and like Rodwell was in a hopeless position, but he came overruffed by Naqvi with the ace. Naqvi played another up with the solution. He played a spade to his ace, diamond, ruffed by the ten and overruffed by the jack. cashed the king, then followed with the ace of hearts Now a fourth round of clubs promoted Naqvi’s seven to reach this position: of spades. The defence was finally out of ammunition,

17 but they had made all five of their trumps for plus On a diamond lead from South, Auken cashed three 300 and all the matchpoints. diamonds, the club ace, and the spade queen. She came The Luck of the Irish - Hiron to hand with the club queen, dropping South’s jack, then took the diamond ace. In an effort to hold The old saw, “the luck of the Irish”, did not apply here declarer to ten tricks, North discarded a spade, playing as the Irish made their own luck... his partner for the spade ten. That was a mistake; Board 10. Dealer East. Both Vul. declarer now took her three spade winners to [J 9 4 produce this ending as the spade ten was led: ] 10 3 [— {K 4 3 ]K Q } K 10 7 4 2 {— [ A K 10 5 [ 8 7 3 }9 5 ] Q 2 ] A K 8 7 6 4 [— [10 { Q 6 5 { A 10 8 7 ]J 10 ]7 3 } A Q J 8 } — {— {— [Q 6 2 }K 8 }10 ]J 9 5 [9 {J 9 2 ]A 6 4 } 9 6 5 3 {— West North East South }— Porteous Barry — — 1] Pass South followed suit, dummy discarded a heart, and 1[ Pass 2] Pass North was forced to pitch a heart honour. Now Auken 3} Pass 3[ Pass took her club ten and exited with a low heart. If North 4} Pass 4{ Pass had won his heart king he would have been forced to 6NT Pass Pass Pass act as a stepping-stone and give dummy trick 13. If The hand was given to me by yet another Irishman, South had crashed his partner’s heart winner he Bob Pattinson – who, incidentally, happens to have been would have had to give declarer trick 13 with the heart my first-ever bridge partner. seven! He did crash his partner’s heart honour. Paul Porteous led the ten of hearts; low from dummy Just for the record; after the diamond lead declarer and the jack of hearts from Kevin Barry. Declarer won can play legitimately for 12 tricks (relying on the ten with the queen and exited with the queen of clubs. of diamonds to fall). He takes the club ace and queen, Porteous won with his king and returned the king of then unblocks the ten of clubs, crosses to the queen diamonds. West won with dummy’s ace, came to hand of spades and takes the club winner discarding a heart with the king of spades and finessed the eight of hearts. from hand. Now she runs the diamonds, overtaking End result: four down. the third round and forcing the discard of a heart Winkle, Winkle, Little Star - Harsanyi honour from North. The new position is: [J 6 Sabine Auken (East, playing with Roy Welland) declared ]K three notrump here in round nine of the Open Pairs {— qualification. }— Board 30. Dealer East. Neither Vul. [— [K 10 [ J 6 5 2 ] J 10 9 ] 7 ]K Q {— {— { 10 5 2 }— }— } 9 5 4 3 [9 [ Q [ A K 10 8 ]A 6 ] J 10 9 8 5 ] 7 3 {— }— { K Q J { A 9 8 6 } A K 8 7 } Q 10 6 The effect of the play of the heart seven is to produce [ 9 7 4 3 a new and different winkle! ] A 6 4 2 The Godfather - Mark Horton {7 4 3 }J 2 There is no doubt that the star of the European Open Team Championships has been the legendary Benito

18 Garozzo, who was in brilliant form for team Breno as Senior Teams they marched to the final. This outstanding defence Gold: Lavec - Peter Billgren, Tjolpe Flodqvist, Mats comes from their semi final against Groupe France: Pettersson, Björn Sanzen (SWE) Silver: Hansen - Renate Hansen, Heinrich Berger, Board 4. Dealer West. Both Vul. Hubert Obermaier, Franz Terraneo (AUT) [A J 5 Bronze: Bardin - Antonio Bardin, Franco Garbosi, ]K 9 4 Luigina Gentili, Carlo Maria Gentili, Silvio Tosi, Paolo { 10 8 4 Uggeri (ITA) } A 7 4 3 [ 6 2 [ K Q 10 9 4 3 Open Teams Gold: Mazurkiewicz - Piotr Gawrys, , ] A 10 7 6 5 2 ] J Pawel Jassem, Marcin Mazurkiewicz, { Q 5 2 { 9 6 3 Piotr Tuszynski, Jakub Wojcieszek (POL) } 10 9 } K 8 2 Silver: Breno - Mario D’Avossa, Benito Garozzo, [8 7 Riccardo Intonti, Massimo Lanzarotti, Andrea Manno, ]Q 8 3 Romain Zaleski (ITA) { A K J 7 Bronze: IsrMany - Alon Birman, Ilan Herbst, Ophir } Q J 6 5 Herbst, Dror Padon (ISR),, Alexander West North East South Smirnov (GER) Zaleski Rombaut Garozzo Lorenzini Mixed Pairs Pass 1} 2[ 3[ Gold: Rosen Gunev, Dessy Popova (BUL) Pass 3NT Pass Pass Silver: Marc Bompis, (FRA) Pass Bronze: Zahari Zahariev (BUL), Netsy Sayer (TUR) Open Pairs East led the king of spades and when declarer ducked Gold: Sabine Auken (GER), Roy Welland (USA) he found the only way to ensure the defeat of the Silver: Jan Jansma (NED), Zia Mahmood (USA) contract by switching to the jack of hearts. When Bronze: Nils Kåre Kvangraven, Terje Lie (NOR) declarer played low from dummy West kept up the good work by winning with the ace (an essential play) Women’s Pairs Gold: Catherine D’Ovidio (FRA), Janice Seamon-Molson and returned his remaining spade. Declarer went up (USA) with the ace and tried a diamond to the jack. West Silver: , (NED) won and returned the ten of clubs. Declarer cut his Bronze: Véronique Bessis, Carole Puillet (FRA) losses, going up with the ace and cashing his red suit winners before exiting with a club to East who cashed Senior Pairs Gold: Nicholas Fitzgibbon, Adam Mesbur (IRL) two spades for plus 200. Silver: Michael Elinescu, Entscho Wladow (GER) At the other table, East switched to a diamond at trick Bronze: Stephan Cabaj (SUI), Wlodzimierz Ilnicki (POL) two and declarer won and ran the queen of clubs. When East won and switched to the jack of hearts declarer covered with dummy’s queen and when West won and returned a heart he finessed for an easy nine NEWS & VIEWS tricks, plus +600 and 13 IMPs. Roll of Honour Family Affairs Mixed Teams Gold: NedAut - Marion Michielsen, Ricco van A WORLD RECORD: It will be difficult to top this Prooijen, Martine Verbeek, Huub Bertens (NED), feat. The Pakistani Women’s Team participating in the Jovi Smederevac, Sascha Wernle (AUT) 17th BFAME Championships at Ahmedabad had half Silver: Austria - Iris Grümm, Arno Lindermann, its team (three members) from one family. The three Martin Schifko, Terry Weigkricht (AUT) members are related to each other as “Grandmother”, Bronze: Schaltz - Nadia Bekkouche, Dorthe Schaltz, “Mother” and “Daughter”. The “Grandmother” is Peter Schaltz (DEN), Peter Fredin (SWE) Qudsia Dossa, who participated in the 1st BFAME Women’s Teams championships as well and is playing in her 17th BFAME Gold: China 1 - Feng Xuefeng, Wang Wen Fei, Wang here with Roshan Ara Bokhari. The “Mother” is Rubina Liping, Zhang Yu (CHN) Saeed Hai and the “Daughter” is Fatima Raza. Mother Silver: Dutch Women - Carla Arnolds, Jet Pasman, and daughter partnered each other in this Anneke Simons, Wietske van Zwol (NED) championships. Surely it will be impossible to break Bronze: Italia 1 - Caterina Ferlazzo, Gabriella Manara, this record. Simonetta Paoluzzi, Annalisa Rosetta, Ilaria Saccavini, Marilina Vanuzzi (ITA) 19 A FIRST: Brothers Darren (Canada) and Gavin (USA) Jafri Recovering Wolpert will compete against each other in the Bali Mazhar Jafri, WBF Vice-President and BFAME President Bermuda Bowl. This is believed to be the first time Emeritus, suffered a mild heart attack in mid-March that siblings have played against each other in a World this year and missed the 17th BFAME Championships, Championship for different NBOs. Many sets of having attended all 16 previous events. We extend our brothers, husbands and wives and fathers and sons best wishes to him for a speedy and full recovery and have played together (Hacketts, Herbsts, Gartaganis’, hope to see him in Bali later this year. Beckers, and so on). Futhermore, Hazel Wolpert, the brothers’ mother, will be the NPC of the Canadian Commonwealth Games Bermuda Bowl Team. Gavin’s wife Jenny was about to Scotland will host the 4th Commonwealth Nations take part in the USBF Venice Cup Trials at press time. Bridge Championships in Glasgow, from September PER ET FILS: As is usual these days, Agustin Madala 8-13, 2014. Each of the 71 Commonwealth states is will compete for Italy in the Bermuda Bowl in Bali. His invited to enter a team. The Scottish Bridge Union will father Adolfo Madala will play for Argentina in the d’Orsi be responsible for the organisation and all contact Bowl for seniors. should be with their secretary, David Liggat. E-mail: Passings [email protected]. Details of the championship and subsidiary events can be found at: BOBBY RICHMAN 1950-2013: Bobby died in www.commonwealthbridgescotland.com. Hong Kong on June 7 while preparing to compete for Australia in the Asia Pacific Bridge Championships. BriAn Bridge Originally American, Bobby moved to Australia in the In a BriAn-scored duplicate event, players use their 1970s after spending a year in Melbourne studying own iPhones, iPads and Android devices as wireless and subsequently became one of Australia’s all-time scoring terminals, having downloaded the free app best players. He won every Australian championship which we provide. Scores are sent to the club’s special multiple times and competed in the Bermuda Bowl, area on our internet server. When the event is Olympiad, Seniors Bowl and Far East (now the APBC) complete, the TD publishes the result to a club website, on more then 20 occasions for Australia. He was on “BridgeWebs” and/or “Pianola” accounts, and for the Australian Bermuda Bowl team which finished assignment if relevant.he BriAn system third in 1979. Bobby was Austalia’s all-time masterpoint allows players to check the leaderboard, and browse leader. their scorecard and any hands which they have played SEYMON DEUTSCH 1935-2013: Two-time world in the current game, on their phones. Players can also champion Seymon Deutsch died June 13. Deutsch, of consult the movement tableau to check they are in Laredo TX, was widely known as one of the most the right place. affable personalities in the world of top-level bridge, a BriAn is now the normal scoring system for several distinction that was formally acknowledged in 2007 London duplicate clubs, and is being trialled in the USA when he was named the recipient of the Sidney H. and Canada. Training sessions are planned and will be Lazard Jr. Sportsmanship Award. In addition to two advertised on our website www.brianbridge.net, world championships (the 1994 Rosenblum Teams and where we also publish explanatory videos, answers the 1988 ), Deutsch was a five- to common questions, and an easy-to-read instruction time major North American champion with wins in manual. The developers would be glad to hear from the (1986), the Spingold any club interested in trialling Brian, and you can Knockout Teams (1991) and the Vanderbilt Knockout contact us by E-mail, phone or Facebook; TDs and club Teams (1994, 1996, 2006). administrators are invited to get in touch for specific LEONARD HELMAN 1926-2013: Rabbi Helman, queries or to request to join our mailing list. one of the most-beloved characters in the bridge Venice Cup Controversy world, died on June 6th. As a graduate student in chemistry, the young Helman was convinced by Rabbi Following the Israeli Bridge Federation’s announcement Leo Lichtenberg at the University of Virgina that the that it would not fill its qualifying spot in the Venice rabbinate was his calling. Helman went on to earn a Cup, the vacancy has gone to Sweden. The WBF has doctorate of Hebrew letters and a law degree. He announced that Israel will be invited to field a wom- moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1974. Helman was en’s team at the this De- a great supporter of Junior Bridge, contributing to cember in Beijing. Statements from Eitan Levy, Presi- many countries’ youth programs. A book about dent of the IBF, Gianarrigo Rona, president of the WBF Helman, “The Rabbi’s Rules”, written by Mark Horton, and George Jacobs, President of the USBF, on this will appear shortly. matter can be found at www.newinbridge.com, www.bridgewinners.com and others.

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