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The Winner's Circle Issue No.13 Thursday, 30 June 2011 The Winner’s Circle MAHAFFEY GRENTHE KAPADOKYA Congratulations to the three newly crowned European Open Team Champions In the Open a terrific match saw the team from the USA come back from a 58-IMP deficit, Mahaffey (Jim Mahaffey, Jeff Meck- stroth, Eric Rodwell, Sam Lev, Jacek Pszczola, Gary Cohler) finally prevailing 155-133 over the France/Germany combination Bessis (Josef Piekarek, Alexander Smirnov, Michel Bessis, Thomas Bessis). The bronze goes to Monaco A (Jean Charles Allavena, Nathalie Frey, Henri Fissore, Marco Catellani, Marc Bompis, Jean-Christophe Quantin). The Women’s champions are Turkey’s Kapadokya (Mine Babac, Dilek Yavas, Serap Kuranoglu, Lale Gumrukcuoglu) who led from start to finish against Netherlands Women I (Carla Arnolds, Bep Vriend, Jet Pasman, Anneke Simons, Laura Dekkers, Marion Michielsen). The bronze goes to Cronier (Bénédicte Cronier, Sylvie Willard, Catherine D'Ovidio, Veronique Bessis, Jovi Smederevac, Nikica Sver). The Senior title goes to France, Grenthe (Patrick Grenthe, Philippe Vanhoutte, Philippe Poizat, Guy Lasserre, Patrice Piganeau, François Leenhardt) who were too strong for the England/Sweden combination Pharon (Paul D Hackett, Tony Waterlow, Gunnar Hallberg, Hans Gothe, David Price, Colin Simpson). The bronze goes to a Poland/Switzerland alliance, Kutner (Roger Kutner, Marek Borewicz, Jacek Stasica, Wlodzimierz Wala) 5th EUROPEAN OPEN BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS Poznan, Poland OPEN TEAMS OPEN TEAMS FINAL PLAYOFF 1st 2nd 3rd total 1st 2nd total 1 BESSIS 68 52 13 133 1 TEXAN ACES 31 44 75 MAHAFFEY 43 61 51 155 MONACO A 46 42 88 WOMEN TEAMS WOMEN TEAMS FINAL PLAYOFF 1st 2nd 3rd total 1st 2nd total 1 KAPADOKYA 48 10 31 89 1 CRONIER 42 60 102 NETHERLANDS WOMEN 1 6172851 JOEL 25 25 50 SENIOR TEAMS SENIOR TEAMS FINAL PLAYOFF 1st 2nd 3rd total 1st 2nd total 1 GRENTHE 44 36 31 111 1 KUTNER 39 41 80 PHARON 31 18 15 64 POL - CH 36 39 75 2 17 June - 2 July 2011 5th EUROPEAN OPEN BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS Pairs Prize-Giving and Just the Facts Closing Ceremony Jan Jansma The pairs Prize-Giving and Closing Ceremony will be held on Saturday 2nd July immediately after the end of the play, in front of the playing area C1 Snacks will follow Awards: 1. Medals and titles will be awarded to the 3 pairs best classified in Final A of each category 2. Plaques will be presented to the first 3 pairs classified in Final B of the three categories Date of Birth: 09/08/62 3. Challenge Trophies will be assigned to the Pres- Place of Birth: Haarlem idents of the Federations to which the first Euro- Place of Residence: Spykenisse pean Pairs in each category belong. Replicas will be presented to the first, second and third classified What is your favourite colour? pairs. This only applies to those European pairs Orange of course! where both players are from the same country. What kind of food makes you happy? Steak! Medium rare please And what drink? The Trophies are: Cola “Paul Magerman Trophy” for Senior category Who is your favourite author? “AnnaMaria Torlontano Cup” for Women category Unfortunately I hardly ever read “Giorgio Belladonna Trophy” for Open category All time favourite movie? I liked the Harry Potter movies (OK and the books as well) Do you have a favourite actor? Jack Nicholson What kind of music do you like to listen to? Oldies from the 80s and Dutch Rap What do you see as your best ever result? Winning the Open European Teams in Tenerife Do you have a favourite hand? What is the WBF Yes, a 3[ contract I played many years ago still pleases me. Who is your favourite bridge player? Women’s Club? Gert Jan Paulissen of course Is there a bridge book that had a profound influence on you? It is the official World Bridge Federation Club for Yes, Yes, Yes, Adventures in Cardplay is simply the very best Women players.Members can enjoy the pleasures of a book ever! true WBF Club on BBO.WBF Online Masterpoints are What is the best bridge country in the world? assigned.World’s most important bridge players sup- Italy (by far!) port the Club. If you want to join the Club, just go to What are bridge players particularly good at the Hospitality Desk and fill the form.(Name, Surname, (except for bridge)? E-mail, Country & BBO nick) Thinking logically What is it you dislike in a person? Contact details: Shouting at your bridge partner Do you have any superstitions concerning bridge? “WBF Women’s Club”: www.wbfwomensbridgeclub.org No, but I do tend to be at the table 5-10 minutes in advance Who or what would you like to be if you weren’t “3 Tournaments every day” (probably suspended dur- yourself? ing July and August because of the summer holidays and Paulissen, so I can play bridge with myself. LOL maybe replaced by special tournaments) For informa- Which three people would you invite to dinner? tion, schedule, programme and results, please visit Ruud van Nistelrooy, Louis van Gaal and my Aida of course www.womensbridgeclub.org Is there something you’d love to learn? I would love to play golf “Weekly Bulletins” will be available for the comments What is the stupidest rule in bridge? on the deals. Link: http://td.bboitalia.it/wbc1.htm That a 20 second hesitation with screens is no hesitation! 3 5th EUROPEAN OPEN BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS Poznan, Poland You Win Some — You Lose Some — How Unfair! by Patrick Jourdain (Wales) At the lunchtime break in the Womens quarterfinals your 2} was an artificial game force, 4NT was keycard for reporter could see Jill Meyers was unhappy. I can’t say she spades, the response showed 0 or 3 keys, the relay asked was crying in her soup because she had a rice dish, but the about the queen of trumps, the response showed the story soon came out. “What is the chance of losing be- queen but no outside king. cause the missing trumps are 4-0 offside?” she enquired. The answer is 4.78%. Here was the deal: When you look at all four hands you can see this excel- lent contract bit the dust. At the other table Team CBC Mi- Board 12. Dealer West. N/S Vul. lano had stopped in 6{ so the loss was 14 IMPs instead of [ J 6 4 3 a gain by that amount. It was galling to find 7{ by EAST can ] J 8 2 make because diamonds are 3-2 and the spade void is on { 7 3 2 lead but that must be an inferior grand slam. } Q 9 8 As I expressed my sympathy, Jill continued. “Fortunately, [ A K Q 10 8 2N [ 9 7 5 there was some justice on the next board:” ] 3 ] A K 10 9 W E { A J 8 5 { K Q 9 4 Board 13. Dealer North. All Vul. } 10 3S } A 5 [ K J 10 8 [– ] 6 3 2 ] Q 7 6 5 4 {4 3 { 10 6 } 10 8 6 4 } K J 7 6 4 2 [QN [A 9 3 ] K 9 8 7 ] A Q Jill Meyers and Jill Levin for Team Joel had an unopposed W E { A J 7 5 { K Q 9 8 6 2 auction: } A K 7 3S } 9 5 West East [ 7 6 5 4 2 Meyers Levin 1[ 2} ] J 10 5 4 3[ 4NT {10 5} 5{ } Q J 2 6[ 7[ All Pass Again their auction was unopposed: West East Meyers Levin 1{ 1] 2{ 3[ 4[ 5] 5[ 7{ All Pass 3[ was a splinter agreeing diamonds. 4[ was keycard for diamonds. The response showed two keycards with either the trump queen or extra length. The relay was a grand slam try which Meyers, with both side-suit kings, accepted at once. This was a brave effort given the result of the previous deal. This time there were no problems in the play. Team CBC Milano had again stopped in 6{ so Joel was 13 IMPs to the good. Back to back excellent grand slams had been bid by our two Jills for a net loss of 1 IMP when the opponents stopped in six. You win some, and lose some, but, yes, how Jill Meyers, USA unfair is that! The half-time score was 41-36 to Milano. 4 17 June - 2 July 2011 5th EUROPEAN OPEN BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS Testing Times by Mark Horton As you may have noticed the weather here in Poznan has West’s double kept clubs in the picture and rightly or been very good, the rain that has fallen generally being wrongly East got into the action. It is not clear why West ran while everyone is asleep, or while play has been taking his partner out from 5}; perhaps his original double promised place. a two suiter so he imagined there would be a better spot? Sunshine in summer is good for sportsmen, especially the 5} would probably have cost 300 but 5[ was tougher to ones who play that typically English game, cricket. handle. Declarer ruffed the heart lead and played the king of In an effort to introduce a few more of you to its mys- diamonds. (When South has the ace of diamonds, declarer teries I have written this report on the first half of the can save a trick by crossing to the ace of clubs and playing a semi-final between The Texan Aces and Mahaffey in the diamond.) South took the ace and switched to ace of spades style of a cricket commentary (or at least tried to).
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