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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 contract bridge, with an estimated readership of some 200 million people BULLETIN who enjoy the most widely played of all card games www.IBPA.com No 477 Year 2004 Date October 10 [email protected] President: PATRICK D JOURDAIN Editorial 8 Felin Wen, Rhiwbina Cardiff CF14 6NW WALES UK The opinions expressed here are solely those of the Editor, and do not (44) 29 2062 8839 necessarily represent those of the IBPA Executive or its members. email: [email protected] Chairman: We have six excellent, and very different, books as finalists for the Master Point HENRY G FRANCIS Press IBPA Book of the Year Award. They are: 6875 Stornaway Drive · Kantar on Kontract, Eddie Kantar, Master Point Press, Toronto. This is a Memphis, TN 38119 USA collection of Kantar’s best newspaper columns from the 1960’s to date. (1) 901 754 3405 Cell: 901 355 6875 Kantar’s incomparable self-deprecating humour comes through in Email: [email protected] devastating fashion. The selected deals “combine equal amounts of humor Executive Vice-President: and instruction, along with some great stories and great bridge hands,” as JAN TOBIAS van CLEEFF Prinsegracht 28a Kantar himself states in the Introduction. 2512 GA The Hague, NETHERLANDS · Bridge – Classic and Modern Conventions, Nicu Kantar and Dan Dimitrescu, (31) 70 360 5902 edited by Magnus Lindkvist, Bridge Tidningen, Stockholm. This magnum opus Email: [email protected] comes in 4 volumes of more than 2000 pages and is meant to be an exhaustive Organizational Vice-President: exposition of the world’s bridge conventions. Obviously, it is not meant to be PER E JANNERSTEN read for entertainment, but is nevertheless a valuable reference work. The Villa Cicero SE-774 27 Avesta, SWEDEN only work equivalent to this in scope is the Encyclopædia of Bridge. (46) 22 66 1900 · Bridge Master: The Best of Edgar Kaplan, edited by Jeff Rubens, The Bridge Email: [email protected] World, New York. This book is billed as “A tribute to one of the game’s leading Secretary: personalities and inventors.” No matter how well you knew Edgar Kaplan, MAUREEN DENNISON there will be plenty in this book you have not seen or heard. It would be 148 Thornbury Road, Osterley Isleworth TW7 4QE, ENGLAND UK difficult to overestimate the influence Kaplan had on the game. The book (44) 20 8560 3788 F: 20 8568 3553 includes remembrances by editor Rubens. Every bridge player should be Email: remembered so affectionately. [email protected] · Natural Therapy for Defense Disorders, Lajos Linczmayer, Melania Publishing, Membership Secretary: Budapest. This is a thorough exposition of the basics of signaling, leading, and most Dr STUART STAVELEY importantly, thinking on defence. There are 135 mostly multiple-part problems to Rhu-na-Bidh, Shieldaig, Strathcarron Ross-shire IV54 8XN SCOTLAND UK help you through to the correct play. The author adopts Bob Hamman’s philosophy: (44) 1520 755 217 F: 1520 755 355 “If partner really needs to know something, he should assume that I have Treasurer: anticipated his problem and have helped him out with a signal.” HANS CHRISTER ANDERSSON · Play or Defend? 68 Hands to Test Your Bridge Skill, Julian Pottage, Master Point Arstagatan 20 C Press, Toronto. Unusually, the reader is presented with all four hands and the 75434 Uppsala, SWEDEN auction. Overleaf, he is given one or more play/defend options, with analysis, (46) 18 253584 O: 18 175764 Email: [email protected] and asked the question, “Can you make it?” or “Can you beat it?” in a number Honorary General Counsel: of forms. The second section of the book has the ultimate solutions. This is not WILLIAM J PENCHARZ simply a book of double dummy problems, but a very original concept. The 50 Broadway, Westminster deals chosen range from very interesting to outstanding. London SW1H 0BL ENGLAND · Omar Sharif Talks Bridge, Omar Sharif and David Bird, Finesse Bridge (44) 207 222 7000 Publications, London. Sharif is one of the all-time great personalities in the Email: [email protected] world of bridge and in this book he presents many of his favourite bridge Awards Secretary: deals from the past 40 years. Colour and context is added as well: in the BARRY J RIGAL Apt 8E, 22 West 26th Street, chapter on the now-defunct Macallan (formerly the Sunday Times) New York NY 10010, USA Invitational, the authors wryly state, “In the far corner was a table with a (1) 212 366 4799 plentiful supply of the sponsor’s wares. Few serious bridge players consume Email: [email protected] alcohol while playing and it was mainly the bridge journalists who considered Sponsored Members’ Secretary: it their duty to support Macallan to the hilt.” IRENA CHODOROWSKA UI Sewastopolska 3m41 “A cow flew by!” Thus did Hugh Kelsey describe why otherwise-competent bridge 02-758 Warsaw, POLAND players make inexplicably-bad bids and plays. That’s what must have happened (48) 842 5054 last month when the year 2005 appeared on page 1 of the September issue. We Email: [email protected] did not notice it until it was on the website. At least we were able to correct that Bulletin Production Manager: JEAN TYSON version, if not the hard copy version. 105 Roundways, Coalpit Heath Address all editorial correspondence to: JOHN CARRUTHERS Bristol BS36 2LT, ENGLAND 65 Tiago Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M4B 2A2, Canada (44) 1454 778432 Email: [email protected] Tel: +1 416 752 7034 Fax: +1 416 344 4851 Email: [email protected] 1 A Scot’s Favorite Deal, [7 3 ] 10 4 in Miami { K 10 7 Alan Truscott, Bronx, NY }K 8 6 From the New York Times, August 12, 2004 [ A Q 9 6 [ J 10 5 2 ]A 5 3 ]Q 6 As in many other areas, bridge in the New World often {— {J receives an infusion of talent from the Old World. Half a } 10 7 3 } Q J 9 century ago Boris Koytchou, a Russian by birth, crossed [K 8 4 the Atlantic after representing France and played for his ] K J 9 8 7 2 adopted country. Sami Kehela moved from England to {6 Canada and was a strong candidate for world titles. Sam }— Lev came from Poland via Israel and contends regularly. This year Björn Fallenius, who has won many medals for Since his second diamond had been dentist-extracted by Sweden, earned the right to play for the United States in Shenkin, West now had a fiendishly difficult defensive Istanbul next October. problem,and he did not solve it. He returned a club, giving South the entry he needed to the dummy, together with a Two Scots who used to represent Britain as partners are spade discard on the club king. Trumps were played. East’s prominent in American bridge. Michael Rosenberg already queen was eliminated, and the declarer could not be prevented owns one world title and may earn another as Fallenius’s from drawing trumps and eventually using dummy’s diamonds. teammate. Barnet Shenkin added to his many victories by A heart, a spade and a club were the only tricks for the defense. capturing the Grand National Teams in New York last month representing Florida. His favorite deal of the year occurred Did you see what West could have done? He could, brilliantly, have earlier at a tournament in Miami. As South he opened one led the spade queen in the diagramed position, South would have heart. won with the king, but the defense would have been poised to score a crucial diamond ruff, with a spade entry to the East hand. South Dealer. Neither Vul. [7 3 Biarritz ] 10 4 Hervé Pacault, Bordeaux { K 10 7 5 3 } K 8 6 2 The 19th Biarritz International Festival, held from June 29 to [ A Q 9 6 [ J 10 5 2 July 11, had 980 participants from 25 countries vying for ]A 5 3 ]Q 6 five championships (IMP Pairs, Open Pairs, Mixed Pairs, { 9 4 { J 8 2 Individual and Teams). This year, Przybora joined the exclusive club of double-winners of the Open Pairs with Bocchi, } A 10 7 3 } Q J 9 4 Chemla, Duboin, Lasocki and Zia as members. [K 8 4 ] K J 9 8 7 2 The Open Pairs (316 pairs) was won by Polish world {A Q 6 champions Tomasz Przybora and Marek Szymanowski; the }5 Mixed Pairs (226 pairs) by Jovanka Smederevac and Alexander Wernle from Austria; and the IMP Pairs (116 pairs) West North East South by Catherine and Jean-Louis Vives (from Montpellier). The ———1 ] Open Teams (110 teams) was captured by the Austrian squad 1 [ Double 3 [ 4 ] of Doris Fischer, Smederevac, Bernd Saurer, Gerhard Pass Pass Pass Schiesser, and Wernle. Finally, the Individual was won by Thérèse Eychenne from Paris. Experts are often ready to overcall in a four-card suit at the one-level, especially when not vulnerable. West tried one The next Festival will be 28 June-10 July, 2005. Information spade, and his partner bid three spades pre-emptively over and complete results can be found at www.biarritzbridge.com. a negative double that showed the minors. South, unwilling This deal is from the AGF-Lavazza Teams Championship. to quit, stretched slightly to bid four hearts, and the bidding Dealer South. EW Vul. ended. [ A Q J 9 The declarer needed to lead hearts from the dummy, but he ] K 10 5 2 could not afford to block the diamonds by playing the king {Q 2 immediately.
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