HUNGARY LEADS the WAY AS ENTENTE CORDIALE SHINES Contents

Co-ordinator: Jean-Paul Meyer - Chief Editor: Mark Horton - Editors: Jos Jacobs, Barry Rigal, Jordi Sabaté, Issue: 10 Peter Ventura, - Layout Editor: George Georgopoulos - Photographer: Ron Tacchi 27 JUNE 2005 HUNGARY LEADS THE WAY AS ENTENTE CORDIALE SHINES Contents Open Round 3: Zimmermanv.Austria 2 The Bridgemate 3 Vilamoura Once Again 3 Round Robin Qualifying 4 A Swindler from Norway 5 Open Round 5:Welland v. De Bottony 6 Segunda Fase Equipos 7 Open/Women/Senior Team Results 8 Tomas Brenning with assistance from Carl Ragnarsson in the I.T. nerve centre England and France shared the honours at Captains meeting has been postponed until Schedule of Play the end of the qualification stage of the Euro- 09.45 today and the draw for the round of 32 pean Open Teams Championship with both is not available. 09.45 Open Teams Captains countries having five teams (with some The Senior and Women's qualifying con- Meeting transnationals in their ranks) carrying their tests finish today and there should be some 10.30 Open Teams Round of 32 colours into the knock out stage. Pride of exciting finishes between the teams trying to place and the right of first choice of oppo- 10.30 Women A & Senior Teams secure the fourth qualification spot in all four nents goes to the Hungarian team that fin- Qualifying Round Robin ished at the top of Swiss A, Miklos Dumb- groups. 14.00 Women B Qualifying Round ovich, Peter Laktos, Gyorgy Szalay and Gabor You can follow the knock out matches live Winkler. on www.bridgebase.com and Robin Because there were appeals to be heard the www.swangames.com Detective Work The Team Events Registration Our apologies to the players who The women and senior events play the Open,Women, Senior Pairs Event must have thought they had been last day of round robins and will have a Today 27 June, 14.00 - 20.00 dreaming when they read yesterday's shared captains meeting at 9.45 in Impe- Bulletin.What we can tell you is that we rial. Most starting times at 10.30 but the took the final standings from the Inter- women group B starts at 14.00. To establish the K.O. matches, the win- net - but they turned out to be different 2008 European Teams ners of the groups may choose their op- from the results posted elsewhere. ponent from the third and fourth ranked Championship How could this happen when the cor- team in the other group.The runners up rect results appear on the back page of In his presentation French Federation play the other team. the Bulletin? Herman de Wael, searching The open teams start the K.O phase President Maurice Panis, told the EBL for the truth discovered that those with the round of 32 and 16, being executives that BIARRITZ, MARSEILLE teams that had received a bye in one of played in two sessions of 14 boards in Friday evening's matches had not been Los Espejos. The other teams in the and LE TOUQUET were bidding to wel- credited on the Internet with the 18VP open event play a Swiss of 5 rounds of 8 come the European Championships to they received and one match result had boards in Tenerife and Minerva. Starting not been entered. time 10.30 for both. their cities in 2008. 2 2nd EUROPEAN OPEN BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS OPEN TEAMS ROUND 3 - ZIMMERMAN v.AUSTRIA by Jos Jacobs On Saturday morning, the Open Teams the drop and thus succeeded in making his Both the ♦A and the }A leads by West were scheduled to play their third match of contract.As the Austrians did not bid it in the would in all probability have beaten the con- the round robin qualification. With four Closed Room, Zimmermann had their first tract.A heart however did not do the job. So matches to be played after this one, every 11 IMPs on the scoreboard. the operation by Wernle was successful but match could be interesting or important. So Overoptimistic bidding caused another big the patient died. Zimmermann +790. there was no obvious choice at all which swing on board 5: Closed Room: match to watch, in my opinion, and therefore Board 5. Dealer North. N/S Vul. I decided to have a look at the Austrians play- West North East South ing some great names. [ Q J 6 2 Multon Babsch Quantin Bieder ♥ On the first board in the Open Room, the K Q 4 Pass ♦ Austrians almost pushed their opponents 10 7 6 1} Dble 1♥ 1[ into slam: } A 8 3 2} 4[ All Pass [ A 10 9 8 7 3 [ K 5 N Once again routine prevailed over imagina- Board 1. Dealer North. None Vul. ♥ A 10 9 5 ♥ J 6 2 W E tion when Quantin let 4[ go undoubled. ♦ 9 ♦ 4 3 [ A J 8 4 3 2 Though his seven-card suit might have in- ♥ } Q 4 S } 10 9 7 6 5 2 4 spired Multon to find the club lead, he too led ♦ K Q [4 a heart. Austria +620 but 5 IMPs more to } A Q 9 7 ♥ 8 7 3 Zimmermann. [K 6 [- ♦ A K Q J 8 5 2 N On the last board of the match, neither side ♥ J 10 7 2 ♥ K Q 9 8 6 5 3 }K J W E came anywhere near the cold slam in dia- ♦ 8 7 5 4 3 ♦ J 2 Open Room: monds: }10 2 S }K 8 4 3 [ Q 10 9 7 5 West North East South Board 10. Dealer East.All Vul. ♥ Schifko Fantoni Wernle Nunes A [ K 9 5 2 ♦ A 10 9 6 1NT Pass 2[ ♥ 9 6 } J 6 5 Dble 2NT Pass 3NT ♦ 4 3 4♥ Dble All Pass Open Room: } A 9 8 5 2 Taking the vulnerability into account, a save [ Q [ A 10 8 7 4 3 West North East South N in any major might well be a good proposi- ♥ A Q J 5 ♥ 8 4 W E Schifko Fantoni Wernle Nunes tion, so Schifko tried again. Luck was not with ♦ A Q 10 9 6 ♦ K J 7 5 1[ 4♥ 4NT him when there happened to be not very }K 7 4 S }Q ♥ 5 6} Pass 6[ much of a fit. Down five and 1100 to Zim- [J 6 All Pass mermann. ♥ K 10 7 3 2 Once Nunes bid 4NT the Italian pair would ♦ 8 2 Closed Room: reach the slam. In view of the bidding, Fantoni } J 10 6 3 West North East South decided to finesse the [K rather than play for Open Room: Multon Babsch Quantin Bieder 1} Pass 2♦ West North East South Championship Diary 2[ Pass Pass 3[ Schifko Fantoni Wernle Nunes Pass 3NT All Pass 2♦* Pass We like to invent new words (not 2NT* Pass 3NT* Pass No such frivolities at the other table. Mul- ♦ difficult if the proof reading is not up 4}* Pass 4 * Pass ton did not bother at all to bid a second time 4NT* Pass 5♦* Pass to scratch!). A famous one we 'bor- so ten tricks were made in peace. Zimmer- 5[ All Pass rowed' from the English television se- mann another 10 IMPs. The Austrian relays did not manage to re- ries Blackadder is interfrastically. Austria missed a great chance when Wern- veal their nice diamond fit, so over 5♦ On Saturday we came up with a new le doubled his opponents trying to direct Schifko had to retreat to 5[ which was ask- one - 'Look, there's Micke Melandering partner's lead: along the corridor.' ing just too much. Had the spades been Our amiable photographer celebrat- Board 7. Dealer South.All Vul. A109xxx there would have been no story. ed 33 years of married life on Friday. [ A K 10 6 5 3 One down. ♥ When we offered our congratulations A Closed Room: ♦ he jovially responded, 'If I'd shot her I'd Q J 3 } K J 5 West North East South be out by now.' (Our best wishes to Multon Babsch Quantin Bieder Mrs T - The Editor.) [-N [J 8 2 ♥ ♥ 2[ Pass Pony Nehmert told Sabine Auken 5 4 K 7 6 3 2 ♦ W E ♦ 4[ All Pass that she had worked out Sabine pre- A 9 8 6 K 7 5 2 S ferred playing in Open events as op- } A Q 9 7 4 3 2 } 10 This auction looks almost too pedestrian, posed to women's. 'Why?' asked [ Q 9 7 4 but once again routine prevailed over imagi- ♥ Q J 10 9 8 Sabine. 'Because in the women's event nation. Zimmermann an easy +620 and 12 ♦ 10 4 no-one asks for your phone number!' IMPs again to make it 39-5 or 25-5 in VP to }8 6 When someone had the effrontery to suggest to Tacchi that he had taken Open Room: most of a day off to go on the IBPA West North East South outing he pointed out that he had Schifko Fantoni Wernle Nunes been working the whole time. 'But you Pass didn't take your camera.' Ah, I have a 1} Dble 1♦ 1[ photographic memory.' 2} 3} Pass 3[ Pass 4[ Dble All Pass TENERIFE, CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN • 18 JUNE - 2 JULY 2005 3 THE BRIDGEMATE It works! Hurrah, it works. Let me tell you Japanese and Economics and didn't know time to understand consequences. We had about it. Somewhere in the late nineties I had much about bridge.

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